BVA 103

WIPO= World Intellectual Property Organisation

Berne Convention

UNESCO=United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organisation

UCC= Universal Copyright Convention

TRIPS= Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property

WTO= World Trade Organisation


WIPO : PCT    The International Patern System

The patent CO-OPeration Treaty (PCT) Assists the applicant with patent protection internationaly for they're inventions

 http://www.wipo.int/pct/en/

MADRID  The International Trademark System
The Madrid System is a one stop solution for registering and managing Marks world wide


http://www.wipo.int/madrid/en/

HAUGE:
The Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs provides a practical business solution for registering up to 100 designs in over 65 territories through filing one single international application

http://www.wipo.int/hague/en/ 

BERNE CONVENTION  :
The Berne Convention, adopted in 1886, deals with the protection of works and the rights of their authors. It provides creators such as authors, musicians, poets, painters etc. with the means to control how their works are used, by whom, and on what terms. It is based on three basic principles and contains a series of provisions determining the minimum protection to be granted, as well as special provisions available to developing countries that want to make use of them.

BSA106 Soviet Montage artists

Summarise the different approaches to Montage between the following film makers

Sergei Eisenstein

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Dziga Vertov Or Denis Kaufman

Worked as a newsreel cameraman coined the term Kino Eye (film eye) believed the world is seen more clearly through the eye of the camera than the human eye and cinema should be real and truthful disagreed with Eisenstein’s theory of narrative film making and believed conventional fiction storytelling to be corrupting cut his film images together due to thematic connections or for emotional effects of juxtaposition attempted to create a unique language of cinema free from theatrical influence and artificial studio lighting – to show cinema that captured real life his frenetic montage style was unmatched until the era of the music video his work and theories influenced the documentary realism (cinema verite) in the 1960’s.

Vsevolod Pudovkin 
Contrast
Parallelism
Symbolism
Simultaneity
Leit Motif
   Recurring themes (e.g) Darth Vaders Theme music

BSA106 Surrealism

Surrealism was an European artistic/cultural movement starting in the 1924

Founded by Andre Breton who was a major member of the Dada group

Breton drafted the surrealist manifesto in 1924

used for the expression of thought and also often  incorporates  dreams and or the darker places of the mind


Jean Cocteau wrote when i make a film it is within the sleep i am in. he  made blood of a Poet


Man ray was the only American to play a major ray in Dada and or surreal films.

Salvador Dali was employed by Disney in 1946 to make a film called Destino.
the film was only slightly done because of a funding issue Walt's nephew Rob Disney rekindled the project later on.

Walerian Borowcyzk made the concert Mr and Mrs Kabal in 1962 and then made the Mr and Mrs Kabal Theatre.

Czech surrealist Jan Svankmajer (Dimensions of Dialogue 1982)

David Lynch is a contemporary surrealist and made several films but most people know him for the Rabbits episodes, among other films .


Surrealism time period 1924 to 1982 ish

How does surrealist film differ from Western film conventions? Surrealist films do not require a plot or major sense of reality in any shape or form just needs attention grabbing aspect.
as with the Western films are hollywood based on a directive or narrative.

Walt Disney was one of the animators or Directors influenced by Surrealism and Dada for example
The Pink Elephant parade in Dumbo.

BSA106 German Expressionism

German expressionist film flourished over the years of 1919 to 1933

Key themes for protagonists included madness in a fantasy/horror

The most famous expressionist film was the cabinet of Dr Caligari also traced back to the first
vampire story Nosferatu

Metropolis by Fritz Lang is one of the most influential science fiction movies of all time.
of which almost bankrupted the UFA

other notable films

The Golem 1920

The last laugh 1924

Amongst other movies

Provide a summary of german Expressionism and include the following

Time period 1919 to 1933



How did German Expression film differ from western film conventions?

broadly defined as the rejection of Western conventions, and the depiction of reality that is widely distorted for emotional effect 


What type of film genres were influenced by German Expressionist film?
Science fiction
and Horror


Discuss how the films of contemporary film director have been influenced by German Expressionist film.

Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has fragments of German Expressionist influences 

BVA 103

Rogers vs Koons- Photograph copyright infringement

Jeff Koons builant several statues adapted from the photo taken in 1985 the statues were sold and Koons tried to claim fair use by parody

OUTCOME

the court found the similarities too close and Koons was made to pay an undisclosed monetary sum
the case was closed


Vanilla Ice vs Queen and David Bowie
Ice Ice Baby
Vanilla Ice had a hit in 1991 Called Ice Ice Baby it sampled but did not credit David Bowie and Queen (Under Pressure) at first Ice denied the sample  and called it a joke but later retracted the statement Facing lawsuit from the Duo Ice confessed to sampling the work

OUTCOME
The case was settled privately outside court with Ice paying an undisclosed sum of money
and crediting Bowie/Queen on the track.

BSA126

Line of action practice .

updated .....Yuss

D.W Griffith BSA106 The Birth of The Nation.

What is the name of the book the il is based on??
The Clansmen


Who does the film portray as The hero? The Klu Klux clan.

Who used it as a recruiting tool?

The Ku Klux Clan.

How are the African American men portrayed? aggressive, sexually by nature.







Oscar Micheaux made a film called With in our Gates (1919) as a response??why?

as a Direct couter attack against the white man community for the attack on African American community





What was the name of his follow up movie??
Intolerance