FAVp019 Cinema and Law

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2023
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
JUDr. Ivan David (lecturer), doc. Mgr. Pavel Skopal, Ph.D. (deputy)
Patrycja Astrid Twardowska (alternate examiner)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Pavel Skopal, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Patrycja Astrid Twardowska
Supplier department: Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Fri 3. 3. 14:00–17:40 C34, Fri 17. 3. 14:00–17:40 C34, Fri 31. 3. 14:00–17:40 C34
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
• Film law does not belong among the traditional and established legal branches such as, for example, constitutional law, civil law, commercial law and criminal law. Given term started to be used only when, in the beginning of the 20th century, there appeared broader public demand for new legislation regulating the new entertainment industry, and even then the term was used rather informally to refer to quite disparate sets of various legislation regulating the production and subsequent exploitation of film. Even today, this concept is not stabilized, however, mostly the norms of the copyright law, media law, advertising law, unfair competition law, personality rights and right to protection of freedom of speech – are usually considered to be part of this subject.
• The aim of the course is to present selected issues, which are dealt with within the film law, and to offer besides the basic historical and theoretical orientation in the subject also current information of a purely practical nature. The course focuses on the interpretation of the laws regulating the film primarily in the Czech Republic and in the United States. Besides this interpretation of the legal issues, there will be also discussed how, on the contrary, is the law reflected by film, what these two seemingly very different fields of human activity have in common and in what respect it still makes sense to legally regulate film in the 21st century.
Learning outcomes
Students will understand the mechanisms of audiovisual sector s regulation by law and its specificities in the Czech Republic.
Syllabus
  • Relationship between film and law, portrayal of law and lawyers in film.
  • History of legal regulation of film: where the film law came from and where it is heading.
  • Film and copyright.
  • Film, the right to freedom of expression and the right to protection of personality.
  • Film and legal regulation of media, including audio-visual advertising.
  • Regulation of film production, distribution, and audiovisual archival materials by public law.
Literature
    required literature
  • LITSCH, Karel. Začátky českého filmu a právní předpisy. Iluminace, 2, 1990, č. 1, s 19-29. ISSN 0862-397X
  • • DAVID, Ivan. Filmové právo: autorskoprávní perspektiva. 2. vydání. Praha: Nová beseda, 2020. 280 stran. ISBN 978-80-88383-20-8
  • ŠALOMOUN, Michal. Ochrana názvů, postav a příběhů uměleckých děl. 2. vyd. Praha: C.H. Beck, 2009, xv, 180. ISBN 9788074000973. info
    recommended literature
  • BARTOŇ, Michal. Svoboda projevu: principy, garance, meze. Praha: Leges, 2010, 384 s. ISBN 9788087212424. info
  • HORA, Jiří. Filmové právo. V Praze: Nákladem Právnického knihkupectví a nakladatelství V. Linhart, 1937, viii, 516. info
  • JOHNS, Adrian. Pirátství : boje o duševní vlastnictví od Gutenberga po Gatese. Translated by Lucie Chlumská - Ondřej Hanus. 1. vyd. Brno: Host, 2013, 633 s. ISBN 9788072947119. info
  • KALISTA, Martin. Product placement a jeho vliv při umístění v audiovizuálních pořadech. Vyd. 1. Ostrava: Key Publishing, 2011, 69 s. ISBN 9788087255537. info
  • KNAP, Karel. Přehled práva filmového. Praha: Knihovna filmového kurýru, 1945.
  • MORAVEC, Ondřej. Mediální právo v informační společnosti (Media Law in Information Society). Praha: Leges, s.r.o., 2013, 288 pp. Student. ISBN 978-80-87576-52-6. info
  • POUPEROVÁ, Olga. Regulace médií. Praha: Leges, 2010, 272 s. ISBN 9788087212486. info
  • PROCHÁZKA, Jindřich. Film v právu původském. 1. vyd. Praha: Československé filmové nakladatelství, 1947, 142 s. info
  • ŠKOP, Martin. Právo a vášeň : Jazyk, příběh, interpretace. (Law and Passion : Language, Narrative, Interpretation.). 1. dotisk 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2012, 205 pp. Spisy Právnické fakulty MU č. 419 (ř. teoretická). ISBN 978-80-210-5464-6. info
  • ŠKOP, Martin. Právní a etická regulace médií (Legal and Ethic Media Regulation). In Nové trendy v médiích I : Online a tištěná média. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2012, p. 185-200. ISBN 978-80-210-5825-5. URL info
  • TELEC, Ivo and Pavel TŮMA. Autorský zákon. Komentář (Author`s Act. Commentary). 1st ed. Praha: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2007, 989 pp. Velké komentáře. ISBN 978-80-7179-608-4. info
  • TELEC, Ivo. Právo duševního vlastnictví v informační společnosti. 1st ed. Praha: Nakladatelství Leges, s. r. o., 2015, 240 pp. ISBN 978-80-7502-061-1. info
  • TŮMA, Pavel. Smluvní licence v autorském právu. Vyd. 1. Praha: C.H. Beck, 2007, xviii, 167. ISBN 9788071795735. info
  • • SRSTKA, Jiří a kol. Autorské právo a práva související: vysokoškolská učebnice. 2. aktualizované vydání. Praha: Leges, 2019. 432 stran. Student. ISBN 978-80-7502-386-5
  • TELEC, Ivo and Pavel TŮMA. Autorský zákon. Komentář. 2., upravené vyd. Praha: Nakladatelství C.H. Beck, 2019, 1314 pp. Velké komentáře. ISBN 978-80-7400-748-4. info
  • ROZEHNAL, Aleš. Mediální právo. 2. rozšířené vydání. Pzeň: Vydavatelství a nakladatelství Aleš Čeněk, 2015, 463 stran. ISBN 9788073805494. info
Teaching methods
Lectures and screenings.
100% presence at the lectures is required.
Assessment methods
Written test.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
Ivan David (1985), attorney-at-law specializing in copyright and related legal fields. Graduated from the film studies at Faculty of Arts (Charles University) and from the Law Faculty (Charles University). Apart from his legal practice, since 2011 he has been teaching (as an external teacher) at, for example, FAMU, the Faculty of Philosophy of Masaryk University or the Faculty of Multimedia Communications at Tomáš Bata University in Zlín. At present (since 2020) he also works as a member of the FAMU Art Council. He is the author of the publication "Film law: Copyright perspective" (Nová Beseda 2015, supplemented and updated edition 2020) and author of articles dealing with the legal regulation of film. Since 2018 he has been consistently involved as a researcher in research projects investigating the impact of legal regulation on cultural industries in the Czech Republic
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