841 Occasional State Museum movie reel of film should be destroyed or legalized

Checking movie catalog State Film Museum has led to the recognition of counterfeit copies of 841 films. The films were transferred to the Museum of the Bureau of filmed propaganda or as gifts from the filmmakers. In the first case, the documentation is lost, and the second - did not conclude contracts on the right to publicly display the Museum films.

Article 1252 of the Civil Code of RF, Part 4:
In the case where the manufacture, distribution or other use, as well as import, transport or storage of material carriers, which are expressed in the results of intellectual activity or means of individualization, lead to a breach of the exclusive right to such result or such means, such material carriers shall be deemed counterfeit and by a court decision be withdrawn from circulation and destroy without any compensation was, unless other consequences are provided in this Code. blockquote>

This year the Museum has harmonized catalog of films and sent it to the State Film Fund for checking membership rights. At the conclusion of the State Film Fund, 841 copy films recognized as counterfeit, that is, films have been transferred without the right to publicly display.

Former director of the Museum of Cinema Naum Kleiman said that during the test did not apply to him, and that earlier after receiving a gift of movies leadership of the museum display harmonize regulations with the embassies and cultural centers of the respective countries. But Kleiman confirmed that part of the documentation is lost, including the possibility exists that it was stolen from the Union of Cinematographers.

Ivan Ulybyshev, a former assistant of cinema Museum, said that part of the copies came without official documentation, and some paintings "were dug up in the trash various archives».

State Central Museum of Cinema founded in 1989 Nahum Kleinmann and engaged in educational and research activities in the field of history and theory of cinema. The museum hosts film screenings, lectures and seminars. Own premises Museum currently does not have. How notes newspaper Izvestia, the museum's collection includes full-length movies movie Kira Muratova, Gennady Shpalikov, Mikhail Romm, Friedrich Murnau, Sergei Eisenstein, Fritz Lang, Marlene Hutsieva, Vadim Abdrashitov, François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Rolan Bykov and other prominent directors.

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