[KS] Film screening: "The Schoolgirl's Diary" (Han Nyeohaksaengeui Ilgi)

[Frank Hoffmann]

Thanks for the info.

I do have a legal question.

In an AFP article from last year it reads:

    "It is not pure propaganda," said James Velaise of
    Pretty Pictures, who snapped up distribution rights at
    the Pyongyang filmfest last September, a two-yearly
    event barred to US movie types but open to a handful
    of European and Communist nations."
    (AFP article, May 22, 2007)

Did North Korea sign the Universal Copyright Convention (Berne 
Convention)? South Korea did in the 1980s. The United States did NOT 
sign it -- only has some domestic copyright laws, and is also not a 
member of UNESCO anymore (and the Berne Convention is administered by 
UNESCO).
(a) Is it therefore legal to redistribute (e.g. on the Internet) 
North Korean movies and other materials -- according to U.S. laws?
(b) In case North Korea did not sign the Berne Convention, of which I 
am not sure, is it legal in e.g. Europe to redistribute North Korean 
materials? Is that contract that Paris based Pretty Pictures did with 
the DPRK even necessary, in a legal (not moral) sense?

I was always wondering about these issues -- also in sight of 
possible book publications with attached/included DVDs with NK 
materials.


Link to the "Schoolgirl's Diary" trailer (preview):
http://ma-tvideo.france2.fr/video/iLyROoaft_XI.html

French Distributor "Pretty Pictures" link:
http://prettypictures.fr/n_catalogue.php?id=69



Best regards,
Frank


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Frank Hoffmann
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