Copyright and authors

[David Blair]

hi,
Aaron brought this up while the case was in process last year,
and I am a bit confused by the judgement.

Will this be seized on as precedent by all who want to now, after the fact,
claim that any [studio] film previously in public domain is in fact the 
work of an auteur/s,
and subject to a new accounting?
This is closer to European law [75 years after death!],
but I really didn't see this in the [translated] version I read of 
Japanese copyright law,
which seemed to treat film as work for hire.

David

Shirley Field wrote:
> Roger - If you wouldn't mind elaborating, I would like more about the
> Ozu situation of which you speak.
>
> Toho won their lawsuit in July. Though they didn't get nearly as much
> as they would have liked (Cosmo Coordinate was ordered to pay $78,127
> rather than the $1.3 million Toho asked for), the court did rule that
> the movies should be protected until 38 years after Kurosawa's death.
> All I can find right now in English is a Variety article on the case:
> http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118006892.html?categoryid=19&cs=1&nid=2562.
> (I don't guess anyone knows why news sites like Mainichi and Yomimuri
> remove their news articles so quickly?)
>
> You can read the court proceedings here:
> http://bizlaw.jp/hanketsu/2009/07/206849.html
>
> All the best,
> Shirley Field
>   

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