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LAW OF UKRAINE

of January 13, 1998 No. 9/98-BP

About cinematography

(as amended on 31-05-2025)

This Law determines the legal basis of activities in the field of cinematography and governs the public relations connected with production, distribution, storage and demonstration of movies.

Section I. General provisions

Article 1. Legislation of Ukraine on cinematography

The legislation of Ukraine on cinematography is based on the Constitution of Ukraine, and consists of this Law and other regulatory legal acts of Ukraine.

The relations concerning acceptance, entry into force, appeal administratively, accomplishment, cancellation of administrative acts in the field of cinematography are regulated by the Law of Ukraine "About ministerial procedure" taking into account the features determined by this Law.

Article 2. Law coverage

Operation of this Law extends to legal entities irrespective of their patterns of ownership and physical persons who are engaged in professional activity in cinematography in Ukraine.

Article 3. Basic concepts

In this Law the following basic concepts are used:

the author of the movie - physical person which personal labor determines creative intention and/or methods of its realization in the movie;

archive set of initial materials of the movie - set of film carriers of the original of the movie, (double negative) consisting of negative, reference and rolling positive of the image, optical soundtrack, the summary of the movie, and also the digital initial materials of the movie, paper and photographic materials, etc. intended for lifelong storage;

exclusive right on the movie - the property right of legal entity or physical person granting the right only to this person on use of the movie in any form and any permitted method;

the contractor of the movie - physical person which own work took part in realization of creative intentions of authors of the movie in the course of its creation;

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