Regulation

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• The Right to image

  Everything you always wanted to know about the law, the right to image for participants of a video, of copyrights, of reproduction, performance, and photography rights of a film ! This text has no direct legal value. It is used for information only. Each person owns an exclusive right on his/her image and its use thereof. This right applies to audiovisual works. The law PENAL CODE / Article 226-1 A penalty of one year’s imprisonment and a fine of € 45,000 is incurred for any willful (...)

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• Exploitation rights of a musical piece

  The exploitation rights of a musical piece for a Passeurs d’images film : reproduction, representation, exploitation rights, and several societies of authors. This synthesis has no legal value. It is for information only, and is based on the Intellectual Property Code. “Any legal representation, integral or partial reproduction done without the author or his/her beneficiaries’ consent is illegal ” Art. L 122-4 of IPC. Before using an audio CD for the soundtrack of a videogram or CD-ROM, it (...)

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• The performer’s rights

  With multimedia technologies developing ever so fast, with each computer being able to copy or broadcast images and sounds, it seems highly necessary to notify that artists do have rights that must be respected. Since Beaumarchais, many regulations regarding art have been implemented in order to protect authors and creators, then producers. But the protection of a performer’s work only exists since a law dated July 3rd 1985. This law gave the performer rights similar to copyrights, that can (...)

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• Paying independent artists

  How to remunerate independent artists-authors (drawers, fine artists, photographers...) ? With a note of assignment of copyrights or a salary ? Via the Maison des artistes (Artist Pension Trust) or the Agessa ? Which contracts ? What is an artistic residence ? Independent artists-authors enjoy special social protection regulations. For fine artists, drawers, the Maison des artistes is in charge of the collection of contributions related to specific regulations. For photographers, (...)

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• Residency, artists and other concepts

  For many years, acronyms and other labels are being developed, whose aim is to classify, to name or to clarify the role played by cultural structures, their actions and the involved persons. Such is the case of the term “residency”. Does it mean a creative or financial process ? If you add to it the word “artistic”, does it become a label, an acronym or a simple reference ? And when you attach a third term, “intermittence”, it changes its reading, making it more conceptual : intermittent artist (...)

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