Ownership of rights in audiovisual productions : a comparative study / by Marjut Salokannel.

I. Audiovisual authors and the changing audiovisual environment : an overview of the historical construction of authorship in cinematographic and audiovisual works : 1. General; 2. Film making as the interplay of technological, economic and artistic factors : 2.1 Photography; 2.2 The cinema; 2.3 Television; 2.4 Digital media; II.The work of art in the age of numerical reproduction : 1. General; 2. Audiovisual works and author's rights : 2.1 A protected work; 2.2 Defining audiovisual works in terms of author's rights; III. Ownership of rights in audiovisual works in traditional forms of audiovisual communication : 1. Introductory remarks; 2. Regulating ownership of rights in audiovisual works in the Berne Convention : 2.1 The Berne Convention and ownership of rights in cinematographic works; 2.2 Regulation of audiovisual rights in the Berne Convention; 2.3 Regulation of moral rights in the Berne Convention; 3. The Rome Convention and the protection of rights in audiovisual works; 4. Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and ownership of rights in audiovisual works; 5. Regulating ownership of rights in audiovisual works in the European Union : 5.1 Harmonization of authorship in audiovisual works; 5.2 Protecting related rights in the European Union; 5.3 Some concluding remarks; 6. Authorship in audiovisual works : 6.1 Authorship in audiovisual works in certain European countries; 6.2 Authorship in audiovisual works in the Nordic countries; 6.3 Some concluding remarks with respect to determining authorship in audiovisual works; 7. Protection of rights related to author's rights in audiovisual production : 7.1 Rights of performing artists; 7.2 Related rights protection of producers of audiovisual works and other audiovisual fixations; 7.3 Rights of phonogram producers in the Nordic countries; 8. Ownership of economic rights in audiovisual works : 8.1 Regulating the assignment of audiovisual rights in certain civil law-based countries; 8.2 Regulating the assignment of audiovisual rights in the Nordic countries; 9. Moral rights and ownership of rights in audiovisual works in the civil law countries : 9.1 General; 9.2 Specific regulation relating to the exercise of moral rights in audiovisual works; 9.3 Right to preserve the integrity of the work and authorship in an audiovisual work : the Huston case; 9.4 Some concluding remarks with regard to ownership of moral rights in audiovisual works; 10. Ownership of rights in audiovisual works in the common law tradition : 10.1 Ownership of rights in audiovisual works in the United Kingdom; 10.2 Ownership of rights in audiovisual works in the United States; IV. The impact of digitization on ownership of rights in audiovisual works : 1. Ownership of rights in works created in multimedia environment : 1.1 Multimedia applications as audiovisual works; 1.2 Multimedia applications as literary or artistic works; 1.3 Multimedia applications as collections of works or as composite works; 1.4 Multimedia applications as collective works; 1.5 Multimedia applications as databases; 1.6 The impact of Directive 96/9/EC on the legal protection of databases on the definition of rightowners in audiovisual works; 2. Some concluding remarks on the impact of digitization on ownership of rights in audiovisual works; V. Concluding remarks : ownership of rights in audiovisual works : 1. Original ownership of rights in audiovisual works; 2. Ownership of related rights in audiovisual productions;.