Legislation Assisting our Work at the Generalitat Valenciana Film Library Archives

The changes undergone by film archives and their conception in most cases considered as public institutions mean they must finally leave behind the times in which "legality" was got around by pirating or purchasing copies that did not legally belong to these, and hiding away in stores any...

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Published inJournal of film preservation Vol. 26; no. 54; p. 11
Main Author Elena Vilardell Escot
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Brussels International Federation of Film Archives 01.04.1997
Subjects
Archives & records
Changes
Legislation
Motion pictures
Property rights
Spain
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Summary:The changes undergone by film archives and their conception in most cases considered as public institutions mean they must finally leave behind the times in which "legality" was got around by pirating or purchasing copies that did not legally belong to these, and hiding away in stores any films that disinterest, political censorship, commercial competition or sheer neglect would have otherwise caused to disappear. The Valencian Film Archive was set up under the precarious conditions mentioned above at the beginning, but these have fortunately disappeared today, thanks to the Copyright Act and to having followed a film recovery policy which has based the creation of its resources on the preferential incentive of the legal deposit. Film conservation should be included in the producer's accounts planning, and even more so, in all the European productions whose main financing still depends on government protection, and in whose legislation this already appears as a production cost.
ISSN:1609-2694