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COPYRIGHT IN CINEMATOGRAPHIC PRODUCTIONS.
{from the German)
A codification of copyright regulations relating to the cinema industry has not yet been effected, either by international treaties or national legislation. Cinematographic productions are generally protected as literary or artistic works. This may be due partly to the fact that the invention of the cinematograph is of recent date and, for this reason, does not yet lend itself to a definite codification of copyright questions relating to it. A further reason may be traced to the fact that erroneonsly the film is not regarded primarily as an industrial product but as a form of art, and therefore the juridical provisions relating to literary and artistic works are applied to it.
The cinema is a technical-economic process by means of which ideal values are shown to an unlimited number of persons
{Ed. N.) With the paper by Dr. Walter Plugge, the renouned authority on the German cinematographic industry, this Institute opens its examination of the problem of authors' rights in connection with the film. This study and enquiry is being conducted by the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation with all the competence which we associate with its name. By close collaboration, these two organs of the League of Nations should be able to find the right way to a solution of this problem, which is so intimately connected with and reacts so directly on that of educational cinematography. Indeed, an enquiry into the whole question of copyright, important as it is in the field of industrial cinematography, is certainly not less important in connection with the special production of educational and general culture films.
In any case, the I. E. C, which is anxious to give, wherever possible, its disinterested contribution to the solution of any problem affecting cinematography, tho' determined as ever not to encroach beyond the boundaries of the very wide field with which it is concerned, is happy to open this series of articles, and in its quality of technical organ, will always be found ready by the Paris Institute and more than happy to welcome in the pages of its Review the results of the enquiry which the Institute of Intellectual Cooperation is carrying out.
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