Intellectual Property Rights of Cinematographic Works

Cinema in classification of arts, is known as seventh art that includes collection of other arts like literature, music and performance. Cinematographic work is a collective work and needs cooperation of a lot of experts. As a number of people play role in making a film, finally who owened economical and moral rights of film and indeed intellectual property rights of cinematographic work? In this article, we investigate different factors in cinematographic work and express different legal opinions about the owner of cinematographic works and finally survey what is the decision of Iran’s law about it.