Russian Ministry of Finance (MinFin) is of opinion that the Medinsky\u2019s idea to help LenFilm and Gorky studio to regain at no cost the \u201clost copyright\u201d in movies made by these studios is unjustified. The Russian federal agency on state property management (RussianProperty) and Russian ministry of economic development (Minekonomrazvitiya) are of the same opinions.<\/p>\n
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Last year Russian minister of culture Vladimir Medinsky has sent<\/a> a letter to Russian prime-minister Dmitry Medvedev. Medinsky wanted to help studios with money. Copyright should provide them with annual royalties, perhaps as it has been suggested. But it is not so simple with copyright. If someone should receive it, so someone should lose it.<\/p>\n “Russian state movies fund (Gosfilmofond) at this moment does not uphold the transfer of rights in audio-visual works. Gosfilmofond believes it will entail worsening of financial conditions and will lead to increasing of requirement to fund more from state federal budget. Such position has been upheld by Russian MinFin.” \u2013 was stated in RussianProperty.<\/p>\n Representative of first vice-premier stated that MinCult is aware of MinFin\u2019s, Minekonomrazvitie\u2019s and RussianProperty\u2019s agreed opinions. But MinCult denied that it has received negative resolution in relation to copyright for Lenfilm. Lenfilm also did not receive any official decision that request to regain copyright at no cost is unjustified. Gorky studio also did not receive any official documents on this issue.<\/p>\n RussianProperty\u00a0holds<\/a> original position. Idea with \u201clost\u201d copyright is unjustified, but it does not mean \u201cnegative conclusion\u201d on MinCult initiative. \u201cWe still don\u2019t give any negative conclusions. But we can\u2019t ignore Gosfilmofond\u2019s position and requirements of Russian law. But we are still searching for ways and propose different options in order to make LenFilm studio able to receive profits from rights in films made by this studio in soviet period.\u201d \u2013 was stated in RussianProperty.<\/p>\n \u201cThe alternative option is transfer of rights under paid licence agreement. Transfer of exclusive rights in audio-visual works, created by these studios before 2002, as share in capital of OJSC \u201cLenfilm movie studio\u201d and SC \u201cTPO Gorky studio\u201d means that they are disposed as property of Russian Federation. If Russian Federation will retain copyrights in movies as its property, it is possible to transfer these rights under licence agreements between Gosfilmofond and these studios in return of payment.\u201d \u2013 believes<\/a> RussianProperty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Russian Ministry of Finance (MinFin) is of opinion that the Medinsky\u2019s idea to help LenFilm and Gorky studio to regain at no cost the \u201clost copyright\u201d in movies made by these studios is unjustified. The Russian federal agency on state<\/p>\n