On Track to European HarmonizationProtecting Authors’ Rights in the Digital Age …
IMAGO Authorship Committee
IMAGO Committees
CAMERIMAGE Cinematographers Memorandum for 2015
On Track to European HarmonizationProtecting Authors’ Rights in the Digital Age AbstractA new European Union Directive, intended to be implemented into national law, is necessary for the equitabledistribution of digital media over the Internet. Since the …
Authorship situation for cinematographers around the world
IMAGO since its foundation has been struggling for authorship recognition for the cinematographers. But the situation differs from country to country where some have recognition and on others the recognition seems to be an impossible task like in France, UK …
Public Consultation 2014 EU Copyright rules
On the review of the EU copyright rulesBrussels, February 2014IMAGO contribution(European Federation of Cinematographers)EU-CODE ID 33723813886-15 READ HERE IMAGO CONTRIBUTION. …
Authorship and the Director of Photography
A Case Study of Gregg Toland and Citizen Kaneby PHILIP COWAN, University of South Wales The artistic contribution of Directors of Photography to the films that they shoot, in narrative mainstream cinema, have been historically ignored in favour of …
Authors Rights Ukraine
The Ukraine is one of few European countries where the authorship for cinematographers, alongside with directors and producers, is recognized as the law. However, though the Ukrainian cinematographers’ authorship is legally fixed, it is …
Authors Rights UK
UK COPYRIGHT FOR CINEMATOGRAPHERS Though the UK participates in copyright law for directors, actors, composers and writers there is no such law in relation to technicians. The UK shares much of its law in relation to film copyright with the USA and as …
Authors Rights Russia
RUSSIA Dear colleagues, friends. In this note we tried to give brief information on situation with copyrights in Russia, made short historical digression and spoke about today’s condition of Russian moviemaking which directly dictates both …
Authors Rights Sweden
SWEDEN The Swedish Union for Theatre,Artists and Media organises almost everyone active in the performing arts including film and television. The Union has fought a long and hard battle to protect the artists and authors from exploitation by the …
Authors Rights Netherlands
NETHERLANDS The Dutch Directors of Photography in reality do not get authorship rights, or financial compensation for their authorship rights in the Netherlands. However it is stated in the law that a Director of Photography is in fact co-author of a …
Authors Rights Hungary
HUNGARY On the Hungarian copyright situation in general In Hungary Act No. LXXVI of 1999 on Copyright (further referred to as the Copyright Act) regulates most of the questions relating to copyright issues. In accordance with the Berne Convention the …
Authors Rights France
FRANCE (Richard Andry/ Robert Alazraki): we represent the AFC, and we gave you the situation in France with the general opinion in the AFC. But my personal feelings are a little different. I find that the more I work, and not only myself, and not only in …
