CO CHERNIKOFF 1921 SINDERLAND PLACE M.W. WASHINGTON DC 22036 (USA) I GIVE MY FULL AND CONVINCED SUPPORT TO THE INITIATIVE CF MY AMERICAN COLLEAGUES TO FINALLY PROTECT AND FORM OF INTERFERENCE. INTERRUCTIONS AND ABUSE OF ABUSE OF ANY KIND BY OTHERS. BEST WISHES Like all European film directors, I am strongly behind you in your fight to establish and strengthen rights of authorship for film makers in the United States. I am sure you will present the case for the directors' moral rights with eloquence and conviction. But there is another side to this issue: the question of the public's rights. The vast majority of the audience sees movies of the past (and increasingly of the present) on television. For them, the T.V.version is the film. It is the public that needs protection from being offered mutilated versions of creative work. The only practical way to provide this protection is the kind of legislation that you are advocating: adherence to the Berne Copyright Treaty and the introduction of a strong mandatory moral rights clause. All power to your elbow! Yours sincerely, Kmecker KAREL REISZ 9 STIRLING MANSIONS. CANFIELD GARDENS. LONDON NW.6. 3JT As a film director of more than 30 years' work in the industry It is now generally agreed that the true authors of any motion The cinema is the great original art of the Twentieth Century. Limbay Anderson LINDSAY ANDERSON 24 September 1987 September 24, 1987 Chairman of the President's Committee of the Directors' Guild of America 1. In American law film directors are not regarded as notwithstanding. They are therefore defenseless 2. In the seventy-six member countries of the Berne Garold Pinter Harold Pinter |