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Audiovisual production contract
Evangelia-Lia S. Contoumas,
Attorney-at-Law, PhD
This dissertation (awarded with honors by the Law School of the University of
Athens) on the “contract for the audiovisual production” offers an interpretative
analysis of article 34 of Greek Law 2121/1993 (Authors’ rights and related
rights) and a comparative analysis with French, German and English law.
Starting with a research on the meaning of the wide term “audiovisual work”
in the Authors’ Right system, the dissertation further analyses the status of
audiovisual works within the category of works created by a number of
authors. The main analysis of the dissertation focuses on the nature and
structure of the contract between the producer of audiovisual work and the
director on one hand, and on the other hand of the contracts between the
producer and all other creative contributors to the audiovisual work, such as
screen-writers, authors of dialogs, music compositors, film editors and others.
The dissertation further explains the rights and duties of the co-contractors in
three different levels: during the making of the film, at the finalization of the
production (when the assignment of the authors’ rights to the producer occurs)
and during the commercial exploitation of the film. In the last chapter, various
cases of breach of these contracts are categorized depending on whether the
breach can be considered as falling within the circle of activity of each co-
contractor while the legal consequences of such breach are dealt within the
legal framework of law 2121/1993 on Authors’ Right as well as the applicable
Greek Civil Code provisions.
ISBN 978-960-562-567-2
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