Who is the copyright owner of a film or television or video work?

Note that this question here is not about "who owns the property rights and interests of copyright".

If you ask about the ownership of property rights, it is most likely owned by the investment company. Just like even a network, after signing a contract with a website, most of the copyrights are completely sold to the website.

What is asked here is simply "in film and television audio-visual works, which natural person plays the role equivalent to the role of 'author' in the work and the natural person corresponding to the right of authorship of the work".

Many laymen may pat their heads and answer: Is the copyright owner of a film or television work a director? If it is not a screenwriter? If it is an audio-visual work, is it counted as a lyricist or a composer?

Strictly according to the jurisprudence of the Copyright Law, the above answers are all wrong.

The copyright owner of a film and television audio-visual work is Producer - the reason why it must be written in English here is because this word will be translated into two Chinese words in different Chinese contexts. In film and television works, we are used to translating as "producer". In audiovisual works, it can only be called "producer" or "recorder".

Of course, this does not mean that screenwriters, lyricists, and composers do not have copyrights.

The screenwriter also has a separate copyright for the script - the nature is the same as the original author of those popular IP adaptations, who have copyright for the adaptation.

Lyricists and composers also still have copyrights in the nature of "literary works" and "musical works" in audiovisual works for "lyrics" and "scores", respectively. In the finished product of an audio-visual work, the producer also produces and interprets the record after obtaining the legal authorization of the lyricist and composer.

However, the copyright of the finished audio-visual work has nothing to do with the songwriter.

Just like after a writer sells the authorization of IP adaptation rights to a film and television production company, the copyright of the online drama filmed has nothing to do with the writer. (Although in terms of specific cooperation models, most of them can agree on profit sharing, and lyricists, composers, and original writers have dividends, but this has nothing to do with copyright, but only the agreement on economic interests in the contract)

So, what exactly does a producer do? Many people in China misunderstand this position as an investor, but in fact it is not.

To put it simply, if the director is the "R&D leader" of a film, then the producer is the "project manager" of the film. The director is responsible for the realization of artistic expression, and the producer is responsible for the coordination and scheduling of resources.

The reason why laymen have misunderstandings is mainly because a large part of the producer's work does involve how to allocate funds and resources, and sometimes they have to continue to pull money for additional investment when they encounter a gap.

So much so that later, some big investors who are not bad at money, or entered the industry just to support the female characters (of course, there are also old fat women who invest in small fresh meat), to ensure that the funds are abundant, and they asked to pretend to be a producer.

In order to ensure that the money can be paid, directors and screenwriters often pinch their noses and give away the producer's name casually. And such a producer doesn't care about things and won't take care of things, so he can only get another deputy producer to actually perform his duties.

……

Feng Jianxiong is just an investor in "A Bite of China", but CCTV is such a big name, so he naturally refuses to condescend to give up the status of producer-

Jokes, the name of the producer, but when the time comes, it will be on the opening song, on the subtitle of "Producer: XXX", which belongs to the right of authorship.

If that line becomes "Producer: Feng Jianxiong".

Where does the old face of CCTV go? The people who don't know the truth may think that CCTV is too poor to be pants, and the documentary they want to make has no financial allocation.

However, since Feng Jianxiong paid the money, it is not good for him to lose both his name and his truth. Therefore, after Director Chen mediated and negotiated with him, he was allowed to install the authority of a producer assistant.

During the filming process, the CCTV film crew had to eat and drink, package luxury transportation, and live in high-end hotels, and this producer assistant naturally had to turn a blind eye.

However, if there are other unnecessary waste and overspending, she can still supervise it and give feedback to Feng Jianxiong.

lest Feng Jianxiong's investment be completely out of control, and in the end, the money burned and the things were not filmed, and he had to make additional investments.

And Feng Jianxiong does not have a talent reserve in this area around him - he is not interested in making documentaries at all, and the capital of 14 million (which does not need to be done in one step, it is a year of inland expenditure) is nothing to him.

Especially with the 08 financial crisis coming soon, housing prices will have a short-term consolidation and decline for a year or two. The money was lying there, and there were no good value-added projects.

The only reason that led him to enter the market at the beginning was only to implant advertisements and forcibly add corporate propaganda to help the squirrel fruit industry survive the bottleneck period of one or two years before the consumption upgrade.

So, there was such a funny scene:

The position of assistant producer of a CCTV documentary, in the eyes of any media newcomer who has been in the industry for less than two or three years, is a covetous advantage - the so-called "any media newcomer" already includes those elites who are graduates of the Fudan Department of Journalism of Peking University, or graduates of Chinese opera Nortel.

But Feng Jianxiong regarded it as a chicken rib, wanting to throw it to anyone but couldn't find anyone to throw it, and finally turned around and remembered: Among the people he knows, it seems that Ding Lihui is a choreographer and director......

Moreover, it is also a choreographer and directing major under the School of Journalism and Media, not a choreographing and directing major in an acting school.

Fortunately, the nature of the film itself is a documentary, which is relatively close to journalism majors, and the versatility of professional knowledge is relatively high.

Then this advantage and difference were casually thrown to Ding Lihui.

The most annoying thing is Feng Jianxiong's attitude like throwing trouble.

It seems that in his eyes, this kind of thing is not worth using to untly rule the beauty, or let the people who have the opportunity be grateful to him.

It's like someone who took the opportunity helped him solve a problem.

……

Feng Jianxiong spent a pot of coffee, and explained to the senior sister what Ding Lihui needed to do and how much he needed to focus on those things.

Ding Lihui felt that her whole person was always in a state of confusion, like being in the clouds, and she couldn't use her strength.

"After filming this film, even if you perform well, if you want to stay on CCTV directly, it is impossible. After all, my foundation is too poor, and the photogenicity is not enough, and the timbre is not suitable for the serious atmosphere of CCTV.

However, as long as you have this qualification, write a ...... on your resume Xiaoxiong said that the film will be filmed next summer. Even if I go to work a few months late for this matter, as long as I have this experience, what bullish media unit in the province can't go?"

This thought had been in Ding Lihui's mind for a long time, so that she didn't hear many of the words of Feng Jianxiong and her real hammer later.

At this moment, her mind is full of her own promotion, salary increase, becoming general manager, becoming CEO, marrying Gao Fushuai and walking to the pinnacle of life, thinking about it, she is still a little excited. The stack is too full, and other information can only overflow.

"Hey, are you listening?" Feng Jianxiong finally muttered to himself, but seeing that Ding Lihui never answered, he realized that the other party had entered the refractory period because of too much psychological stimulation in a short period of time.

"Ah, yes! I will do a good job! Don't worry, I won't let them hack your money!" Ding Lihui patted her chest in shock, so much so that she didn't realize that her breasts hurt so hard that she slapped them too hard.

Feng Jianxiong sighed, and the corners of his forehead were crawling with black lines.

"You're not listening to me at all......"

"Ah...... I'm sorry, I'm really distracted, I'm very sorry, can I trouble you to say it again?" Ding Lihui blushed rarely.

Feng Jianxiong was helpless, and was about to say it again, but was interrupted by an abrupt interjection.

"It's okay, Senior Feng is very talkative. Senior Sister Ding, you don't have to be nervous, you have to take care of it in the future. It turned out that it was Ma Hesha, who had been sitting there just now, watching his nose and listening to his heart, and opened his mouth to comfort Ding Lihui.

Ding Lihui glanced at Ma Hesha blankly but gratefully.

Feng Jianxiong seized the opportunity to speak: "What I told you at the end just now is this-money is a trivial matter, just do your best, you have no experience after all, and I won't blame you for a little omission - but, in those days when Xiaoma went to the crew, I hope you take care of her, she is just a waste and doesn't understand anything, don't let the staff bully her." ”

Feng Jianxiong's words can be described as a straightforward representative, and he said that she was a waste in front of Ma Hesha, and he didn't hide it at all.

Ding Lihui's first reaction was that Feng Jianxiong was trying to deliberately clear up the "adultery".

After all, there are many men who deliberately criticize each other with a straight face in order to show that they are separated from a girl who is actually adulterous in front of outsiders.

But staring at Feng Jianxiong's expression for a few seconds, and reminiscing about Feng Jianxiong's tone and tone, Ding Lihui had to admit decadently: It was his gossip that thought too much.

Feng Jianxiong is really 100% frank, and he thinks that Ma Hesha is a waste of cuteness.

Ding Lihui took a deep breath and confirmed: "She is also going to the crew...... Is it as a subject?

Feng Jianxiong raised his hand slightly: "Almost, I'll tell you the truth, I made this film for product placement and corporate publicity." Of course, there are some other media layout considerations, involving trade secrets, so there is no need to tell you - Xiaoma's entrepreneurial project is very important to my publicity plan.

But she gets nervous in front of the camera, and she doesn't have any foundation at all. I want you to help her adjust it so that she can shoot as realistically as possible. ”

Ding Lihui secretly noted down Feng Jianxiong's request and nodded that there was no problem.

Feng Jianxiong turned to Ma Hesha and coughed lightly: "Pony, you are here, I won't say anything more." When I get to the crew, of course it's good to make more friends, and I don't want to restrict you, and there's no need to limit you. But since you are doing things for me, of course I am responsible for my brothers.

You are a person with a serious lack of social experience, and it is easy to distinguish between good and bad. With your appearance, when you get to the crew, you will find that there are many male staff members who want to make friends with you - I reiterate again, I don't restrict you from making friends, but I hope you will discuss it with Senior Sister Ding first when you encounter something, she sees people much more accurately than you. That's it. ”

Ding Lihui listened to it on the side, and secretly wondered in his heart: Xiaoxiong is really high-spirited, and there are the most literary and artistic men in the film and television circle who are good at fishing for horses, and he still doesn't interfere with yarn to make friends with other male staff at all...... It seems that he is really open-minded and has no intention of poisoning Sasha......

Ma Hesha's inner activities at this moment, although they are different from Ding Lihui, the general direction is also the same: looking at the editor's articles on the Internet, investors involved in the media industry are all seizing every opportunity to dive into beauties. Although Senior Sister Ding is not the most beautiful, her voice is as sweet as Lin Chiling, and he didn't mean it at all, so he gave her such a good opportunity for nothing......