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Producer-director as Subject of Intellectual Rights: Problems of Status Determination

Student: Kosminskaya Ekaterina

Supervisor: Valentina Sinelnikova

Faculty: Faculty of Law

Educational Programme: Jurisprudence (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 7

Year of Graduation: 2021

For the Russian civil law, the issues of the producer-director’s legal status as well as the specifics of their intellectual property rights for production have long been stated very vaguely in the legal system. One of the main reasons for the discussion on the producer-director’s legal status lies in its ambiguous character: film directors enjoy their copyright, whereas stage directors remain owners of neighbouring rights for their production, and, therefore, their rights are less protected. In 2017, the Union of Theatre Workers of the Russian Federation took a speech in the State Duma of the Russian Federation and draw the legislator’s attention to the issue of the poor level of stage directors’ rights protection, which resulted in introduction of new provisions into the Civil Code of the Russian Federation (Blisnec I, Vakhitova Yu, 2020). The purpose of the provisions was to extend their intellectual property rights. Due to the fact that on the one hand, the above mentioned amendments to the legislation are rather new, and on the other hand, there has passed enough time to analyze and assess their real efficiency, the subject under the research is still relevant. The purpose of this research is to analyze the legal status for producer-directors in general with a focus on the study of stage directors’ issues by means of learning the Russian and foreign legislation to identify the most effective means for the producer-director’s rights protection.

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