9 STIRLING MANSIONS. CANFIELD GARDENS. LONDON NW.6. 3JT As a film director of more than 30 years' work in the industry It is now generally agreed that the true authors of any motion The cinema is the great original art of the Twentieth Century. September 24, 1987 Chairman of the President's Committee of the Directors' Guild of America 1. In American law film directors are not regarded as notwithstanding. They are therefore defenseless 2. In the seventy-six member countries of the Berne Harold Pinter Harold Pinter It is with a genuine satisfaction that the Society of Film Directors, of which I am Président, is told that, following the very recent decisions of the Supreme Court of your country related to the right of consent, the American Congress is on the brink to amend your present legislation as far as the protection of the Author's moral right is concerned, thus enabling the United States to sign the Berne copyright treaty. As you very well know, the French legislation played a "pioneer" role in this very domain, and under the impulse given by the Authors, and film Directors particulary, the Law was even more improved last 1985, allowing our Films to keep clear off being mamed (material alteration and cuts). However, the strength of multimedia holdings and "mass production" being that important, we have to constantly fight new menaces. Therefore, I will never highlight enough the virtues of the Amendment H.R. 2400 introduced by Congressman GEPHARDT and also underline enough the necessity that all regulations he offers should be adopted. To accept and pass the bill of Congressman KASTENMEIER would actually, because of that "work for hire" exclusion clause, ruin most of the decisive and historical progress you are to achieve. association rigue par la loi du 108 Juillet 1901 |