Plus Camerimage<\/span> Festival <\/b> is happy to inform that on May 7th, the district court in Munich issued a verdict which is a major step towards the practical implementation of an amended act on the authorship rights in Germany and towards the recognition of a cinematographer as a co-creator of the film image<\/b>. <\/p>\n It is an undoubted success of the DP Jost Vacano<\/b> (The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum<\/i><\/span>, Neverending Story<\/i><\/span>, The Boat<\/i><\/span>, Showgirls<\/i><\/span>) who has filed the lawsuit, and who has for 20 years been struggling for the recognition of a director of photography as a co-creator of the film work. <\/p>\n Jost Vacano<\/b>, the cinematographer on the film The Boat<\/i><\/span> which is the subject of the lawsuit, has laid charges against a production company, a broadcasting institution and against a VHS distribution company. According to Vacano<\/b> these companies were gaining profit from exploitation of the film, while he has not received royalties from it, which he should according to article 32a of the copyright act. <\/p>\n 7th Civil Chamber of the District Court has in large measure found the claims to be well-grounded<\/b> and has obliged the charged parties to file the account of the profits gained from the exploitation of the film since 2002 which is the year the copyright act was amended. The amendment has added the abovementioned article 32a which established an institution of the co-creator of a film work. Cinematographers are included in the list. On the next stage of the proceedings the court will set if and in what amount additional fee should be paid to Jost Vacano<\/b> resulting from the exploitation of the film. The ruling made by the Munich court is particularly important for the German Society of Cinematographers (bvk)<\/b>. Although the verdict does not yet mean an absolute victory and refers only to a limited period of time, bvk<\/b> consider it a success. <\/p>\n Michael Neubauer<\/b>, bvk<\/b>\u2019s General Manager says: \u201cFinally it will be clear that the protection of the cinematographers\u2019 rights against those who exploit their artistic work is a serious matter. Films are made thanks to the artistic input of a DP. Otherwise a cinema screen would remain white. (\u2026) nobody buys a DVD just because it\u2019s shiny but because it contains for example the film The Boat<\/i><\/span> with astonishing photography one wants to see. The carrier is worthless without a content and the profits from its distribution should be shared by all the creators. The sole fee does not fix the issue.” <\/p>\n Plus Camerimage<\/span> Festival<\/b> since the beginning of its existence has been making efforts aimed at the recognition of the cinematographers\u2019 position all over the world. Therefore we congratulate Jost Vacano<\/b> on his success and we wholeheartedly keep our fingers crossed for the positive result of further proceedings! <\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Plus Camerimage Festival is happy to inform that on May 7th, the district court in Munich issued a verdict which…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wiadomosci-plus-camerimage-2009"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The Boat<\/i> dir. Wolfgang Petersen, cin. Jost Vacano. <\/p>\n