Broadcasters vs Producers on Content Integrity 173
mpawlo writes "I just did a quick write-up for Greplaw on an interesting pending law suit in Sweden. Two Swedish directors, Vilgot Sjoman and Anders Eriksson, are about to file a suit against Swedish broadcaster Tv 4. According to the author's rights or droit moral doctrine, the work may not be displayed or changed in a way degrading to the author or the author's work. Tv 4 has just changed its policy for commercial breaks. Breaks are now introduced during movies. The commercial breaks used to be placed between the end and start of a program.
The directors argue the breaks are degrading from an artistical point of view. They want to try the commercial breaks in court from a copyright perspective."
Re:hmm (Score:4, Informative)
Continental copyright law is not like US law. There is the doctrine of the moral rights of the author. The widow of Peter Sellers used this right to sue the producers of 'on the trial of the Pink P{anther' which used footage from the previous panther movies which Sellers had rejected.
There are also a bunch of cases where the directors of movies have prevented studios from agreeing to cuts to comply with censorship boards.
I'd love to see that as a precedent... (Score:5, Informative)
But I suppose if this goes through as a general precendent in copyright law, the movie producers will simply get a lower prices for movies that they can't break up. Nothing like sacrificing "artistic integrity" for a bit more money...
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Re:Interesting.. (Score:2, Informative)
Anybody living here, however, knows that with the huge strikes going on at Videotron, their service is less reliable than sattelite.
The US Balance (Score:1, Informative)
This concept is so foreign in the United States I'm not sure if anyone will get it.
Re:This I don't get (Score:2, Informative)
Re:This I don't get (Score:1, Informative)
The ITC, (Independent Television Commission in the U.K.), recently fined a Swedish broadcaster for screening an unsuitable trailer - details here [dtg.org.uk].
Moral Rights (droit moral) FAQ (Score:3, Informative)
In short, U.S. law provides very little moral rights protection, except for visual fine art.
What the hell is "artistical"? (Score:2, Informative)
A noun: art.
Noun turned into an adjective: if something has the quality of art, it is artistic.
Adjective turned into a redundant adjective to add more syllables so the author sounds smarter: artistical.
Hey, let's turn it back into a noun by adding more syllables! How about artisticalness?
Same thing with symmetrical. If something has symmetry (noun) it is symmetric (adjective). WTF does "symmetrical" mean that "symmetric" doesn't?
Re:TV programming exists only to sell advertising (Score:2, Informative)
Is it nice for PBS to have to beg?