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 …