Комментарий и словарь

1. Совместное заявление - a joint declaration.

2. Приволжский федеральный округ- Privolzhsky (Volga) Federal Territory.

3. Валовой внутренний продукт - Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

4. Оратор хочет сказать, что в области собирается около 2% федеральных налогов.

5. Валовой региональный продукт - Gross Regional Product.

6. Машиностроительный комплекс = машиностроение - mechanical engineering, machine-building, machinery construction, engineering industry.

7. Черная металлургия - ferrous metallurgy.

8. Нефтехимия - petrochemistry.

9. Лесная промышленность- forestry industry, timber (wood) industry.

10. Деревообрабатывающая промышленность - wood-working industry.

П .Целлюлозо-бумажная промышленность - cellulose industry. 12. Европейский Транспортный коридор - European Transport Corridor

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PRESENTATION AT WORKSHOP ON TECHNOLOGY COMMERCIALIZATION (Some Legal Aspects of Intellectual Property Protection Involving the Law and Physics)

Part 1

1. Ladies and Gentlemen, it is a pleasure to be here today in the Nizhny Novgorod region once again. And it is an honor to participate in this program.

To begin with, I want to thank the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and the Atlas Group for including me in the program.

It is a special pleasure to be here at the invitation of Academician Abel Agenbegyan.

In August 1991 I watched with interest a speech given by Academician Agenbegyan in California just after the unsuccessful putsch attempt. American television was then full of Russia programming. The Academician was speaking on the economy of the Soviet Union.

He said that there were optimists and there were pessimists. He said the optimists believed that things were so bad, they couldn't get any worse. The pessimists disagreed. They believed things could get worse.

Today, both the optimists and the pessimists have reason to be happy. It appears - at least in the U.S. - things are getting better and worse at the same time. This is a phenomenon that contradicts the laws of economics, and perhaps even the laws of physics.

2. Which brings me to the question of physics. And in Nizhny Novgorod, which is a region and a city of physics and physicists, it is appropriate to speak of physics, especially radio physics.

What does a Philadelphia lawyer know about physics? Essentially, nothing. But, we have clients who deal in the real world and thus the world of physics. I shall discuss an example that illustrates that technology in laboratory may be far different in a court room or another legal setting.

My example is a dispute between the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Walt Disney Company concerning royalty payments for the home video motion picture version of "Fantasia". At its center the case involved the physics of FM radio waves.

The lesson: however magnificent the creative abilities of the animation studio, the orchestra and the maestro, their understanding needs to be reduced to writing and is subject to legal principles and future interpretation. The Fantasia case shows that the parties may have different ideas about what they intended. When you negotiate a contract for transfer of technology or the use of intellectual property, you must keep in mind that one day a court may have to determine what the parties to a contract really intended.

In the years 1938 through 1940 the movie animation company Disney, the Philadelphia Orchestra and its conductor, Leopold Stokovski, collaborated in the creation of a unique feature animated motion picture entitled "Fantasia".

3. At the time of the creation of "Fantasia", the Philadelphia Orchestra was recognized as one of the three greatest symphonic orchestras in the United States.

Disney paid the Philadelphia Orchestra for the right to use the name and the musical performance of the Orchestra in "Fantasia" the total sum of $2,500.

In 1991 the Disney Company reissued "Fantasia" on video cassettes and laser discs for home television viewing. By December 31, 1991, Disney sold over 14 million units of "Fantasia" in North America alone, producing $220,000,000 in revenues and $120,000,000 in profits.

Despite the fact that Philadelphia Orchestra was a participant in "Fantasia", Disney did not obtain its consent, and did not pay the Orchestra for the sale of the home videos.

3. The legal basis for the Orchestra's work was a simple one page letter agreement dated January 11, 1939. In that letter, Disney, Stokovski and the Philadelphia Orchestra agreed to the following:

"The Philadelphia Orchestra Association agrees to furnish and grant to Leopold Stokovski and the Disney Studios the right to use the Philadelphia Orchestra for recordings in connection with this feature picture, said recordings to be made at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia...

"The Philadelphia Orchestra Association, Inc. further grants the right to Leopold Stokovski and the Disney Studios, in connection with this feature picture^ to use the name "The Philadelphia Orchestra" on the screen and/or in all publicity and exploitation of said picture".

The Philadelphia Orchestra performed and recorded the classical music that was used in "Fantasia" at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia in April 1939.

"Fantasia" was released in a feature-length theatrical motion picture format for exhibition in theatres outside the home in November 1940.

Disney promoted "Fantasia" as a "unique and innovative collaboration" of artistic and musical talents: "music you can see" and "pictures you can hear".

Who owns Fantasia? Whose intellectual property is it? 6. Переведите текст выступления последовательно.

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4. Прослушайте, запишите и воспроизведите на русском языке следующие прецизионные слова:

March, Friday; January 1, 2002; Bill, tel.: (8482) 37-14-98, Japanese, 4 000 890 546, Seville, April, Saturday; September 14, 1998; Joseph, tel.: 456-231-68-93, Somalia, Chinese, 456 003 200 067, Riyadh,

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In September 1991, 14% of Russian enterprises suffered losses. The highest rates were observed in sectors which had previously been subsidized by the state. The highest shares of unprofitable enterprises (30-36%) are to be found in the Sakha and Tuva republics and in Murmanskaya and Magadanskaya oblasts.

In summer 1992 every third industrial enterprise and every second agricultural enterprise did not pay its debts in time. Loans continue to be granted to unprofitable enterprises because of regional and sectoral considerations.

The best overall economic conditions can be found in Murmanskaya and Magadanskaya oblasts. The worst economic indicators are seen in Stavropolskii krai and the Mordovian, Kalmyk, North Ossetian, Adygei,

Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkar, Karachaevo-Cherkess, Chechen-Ingush, Altai, Tuva and Sakha republics.

From: The Impact of Transition on the Russian Regions" by Andreas Worgotter and Vsevolod Bulantsev