PRO round tables
Round Table – Film Festivals
Tuesday, July 22, 2014, 16:00, Circolo (open for public from 17:30)
The fact that there are some fifty film festivals financed by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre and/or the Ministry of Culture successful at finding their audience in a country of only four and a half million people is truly significant. It provides some insight into the national cultural policy but also into specific local tendencies. However, it does not reveal anything about how well the festivals communicate and collaborate between each other and how well they complement each other. This topic will be tackled at a round table discussion on film festivals featuring Croatian and regional film festivals representatives. Rajko Grlić will lead the discussion.
Round table discussion on intellectual property rights in the audivisual industry in the Republic of Croatia
Sunday, July 20, 2014, 17:00, Circolo
Having in mind a number of unsolved issues and a series of problems related to intellectual property rights in the audiovisual industry, the Croatian Film Directors’ Guild organizes a round table discussion in order to present the current situation, open issues and possible solutions.
The idea is to have a round table discussion combining short presentations and discussions regarding some of the most important aspects concerning intellectual property rights including the question of audivisual heritage in the Republic of Croatia such as the issues of ownership, preservation, management and usage of film and television heritage, the issues of intellectual property rights concerning audivisual works produced by public television, authors’ rights to adequate compensation for the use of audiovisual works (the so-called primary and secondary rights, i.e. individual and collective intellectual property rights’ exercise), the issues related to the contents of copyright license agreements accompanied by examples of violations of intellectual property rights, the issues of the so-called orphan works and the overall legislative framework concerning audiovisual industry / audivisual property in Croatian legislation. In addition, comparative examples from the European practice on specific subjects will be presented.
The introductory presentation will be given by Antonio Nuić, the president of the Croatian Film Directors’ Guild. The aim of the round table discussion is to analyse the current situation and to discuss open questions and reach conclusions that will serve as guidelines for copyright license agreements and for any further actions of the Guild and other institutions with the purpose of implementing the adopted conclusions.
Different topic will be discussed by Đurđica Paić, head of the Copyright and Related Rights Department of the Croatian Copyright Agency, attorneys-at-law Bojan Čobanić, Zoran Bauer and Neven Vučković, members of the Board of Directors of the Croatian Film Directors’ Guild Snježana Tribuson and Vlatka Vorkapić, film directors Branko Ivanda and Lordan Zafranović, director of the Croatian Audivisual Centre Hrvoje Hribar, Croatian Euroimages representative and member of the Croatian Radiotelevision Programme Council Sanja Ravlić, and MEDIA DESK CROATIA representative Martina Petrović.
Dr. sc. Nina Obuljen-Koržinek, president of the Croatian Radiotelevision Programme Council, dr. sc. Bruno Kragić, member of the Council, Vera Robić Škarica, president of the Croatian Audiovisual Centre’s Audiovisual Council, as well as representatives of the Croatian Film Makers’ Associations and the Croatian Producers Association will participate in the round table discussion as well.
The round table discussion is sponsored by the State Intellectual Property Office of the Republic of Croatia represented at the round table discussion by its director mr. sc. Ljiljana Kuterovac and mr. Tajana Tomić, head of the Independent Service for Copyright and Common Legal Affairs.
