영화제작의 자금조달의 법률관계

Abstract

For many people of the world, the term ꡐentertainmentꡑ means the movie. Arguably, the greatest means of reporting and recording society and culture is the motion picture. No other medium is capable of creating an immediate visual record of a point in time in a manner that is both historical and artistic. Furthermore, this fact promote the movie industry and it makes us research various financing types of the film production that there is no movie without finances in the modern capitalist movie industry. Therefore, in the light of the fact that finances are based on civil contracts, in this paper we deal with Studio Financing, Lender Financing, Investor Financing as film production-financing types, mainly focusing on legal relations between financers and producers. And we also examine the law surrounding the korean characteristic financer, The Movie Investment Partnership(MIP), a partnership specialized in investing funds in various movies, currently plays a significant role in promoting the korean movie and related industry. Although the partnership has the mixed characteristics of civil and public funds, The MIP is basically established based on the Korean civil law. In this paper we review the critical points of the Movie Investment Partnerships and analyze the MIP in the respect of legal principles and practices.