Legal rights are of vital importance to the daily work of a film archive.
Copyright questions are complicated and intriguing and the issue has been off and on the agenda of FIAF for ages. In the beginning of the 1970's FIAF had a Copyright Commission, chaired by John Kuiper. Ernest Lindgren was a member of this commission and I was also for a short period a member. All the information that was gathered at this time was useful, but not much came of the work of the commission. Michael Henry's overview of copyright problems faced by the archives is published in the Guest Editorial.