[Fmpro] Inside "eastern block"

[Rick Blanc]

 Lev,

 Thanks for your information and insight.  It is
 important, I think, that members of this board
 have information necessary to develop a real
 comprehensive world view.  As you said,
 productions, whether film or whatever, play all
 over the world.  ALL OVER THE WORLD!  And the
 marketplace grows larger every day.  Thanks for
 your contribution!

 Rick 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Lev Zemlinski 
  To: fmpro at nxport.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 3:11 PM
  Subject: [Fmpro] Inside "eastern block"


  I just want to share a few thoughts about
  globalisation, as it was discussed some time ago.
  Obviously we must think about global rules in future.
  For example so called "eastern block" really is very
  different. The copyright problems were often used by
  politicians. Let's do not act as them and get real.

  As an example, more pro-west oriented Ukraine has much
  worse situation with royalty payments (I personally
  never got anything from there last years) than Russia.
  BTW, Russian cinema theaters pay for performance. And
  I heard some horror stories about author laws in
  Baltic republics (former SU). One of my friends got
  several dollars for a big live show there, he says due
  to local laws. And these countries are already in
  "western" world!

  Speaking about former SU republics, I think Russian
  PRO is in the best position. But it gets nothing from
  ASCAP for Russian films on air! I personally talked
  with the Head of film department not long ago and she
  told me that they try to send all necessary
  information to ASCAP, but get no response. One of the
  Russian leading film composers had to become member of
  ASCAP and register himself as American publisher to
  get royalties. Do you think that Russian PRO is very
  much interested to pay American authors in this
  situation? Though ASCAP is sending cue sheets
  regularly, I saw them.

  Another interesting point is China. They already
  formed a PRO and pay at least to domestic authors. Our
  local PRO's foreign department says that it's possible
  already to find royalties from there, at least to try.

  BTW, do you know how many films do they make in China?
  Over 400 feature films a year! (And they got Gold Lion
  in Venetia this year.)

  Few years ago, during stagnation in local film
  production, I wrote music for Russian state circus. I
  got some royalties from abroad, especially from Japan
  and Europe. But I never got it from two countries,
  guess which..(though they had shows there) - China and
  ...USA (oh these "surveys")
  Hope, I'm not more bitter than Les :-(

  Best,
  Lev Zemlinski

  And congratulations Mark!

  www.zemlinski.ru


         
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