Cinema Law, 5759-1999

In this Law –

"film" means an audiovisual artistic work, including a narrative, documentary or experimental work, composed of a series of moving images, filmed or recorded, with or without a soundtrack, which may be projected on a screen, including a television screen, and from which copies may be made;

"Israeli film" means a film that satisfies the conditions for recognition prescribed under section 13;

"cinema" means the making of a film, including any act in relation to a film or connected therewith;

"the Committee" means the Education, Culture and Sport Committee of the Knesset;

"Budget Foundations Law" means the Budget Foundations Law, 5745-1985;

"Telecommunications Law" means the Communications Law (Telecommunications and Broadcasting), 5742-1982;

"Second Authority Law" means the Second Authority for Television and Radio Law, 5750-1990;

"Public Broadcasting Law" means the Israeli Public Broadcasting Law, 5774-2014;

"Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Council" means the Council appointed under section 6b of the Telecommunications Law;

"Second Authority Council" means the Council appointed under section 7 of the Second Authority Law;

"the Ministry" means the Ministry of Culture and Sport;

"the Minister" means the Minister of Culture and Sport.

the Council shall examine every complaint submitted to it as aforesaid, except a vexatious complaint, provided that it was submitted before the expiry of two years from the date of the act or omission that is the subject of the complaint or from the date on which that act or omission became known to the complainant, whichever is the later; the Council shall publish, each year, on the Ministry's website, a general report on the number of complaints received in the year preceding the report and on the number of those complaints that were found to be justified, broken down by supported public institution; in this paragraph, "Support Committee" means a committee appointed in the Ministry for the purpose of deliberating on applications for support from the State budget under section 3a(f) of the Budget Foundations Law;

The term of office of a member of the Council appointed under section 4 shall be four years, and the Minister may extend the term of office for one additional term, provided that no person shall serve for more than two consecutive terms of office.

The existence of the Council, its powers and the validity of its decisions and acts shall not be affected by reason of the termination of office of a member of the Council or by reason of a defect in the appointment or continuation in office of a member, provided that the quorum required for the lawful conduct of its meetings under section 10(a) is present.

A person who is liable to find himself, directly or indirectly, in a situation of conflict of interests between his function as a member of the Council and a personal interest or another function of his shall not serve as a member of the Council.

A member of the Council who is not a State employee, an employee of a budgeted body or an employee of a supported body shall be entitled to payment for participation in meetings of the Council, in accordance with the provisions set by the Accountant General of the Ministry of Finance with respect to members of public committees; in this section, "State employee", "employee of a budgeted body" and "employee of a supported body" have the meanings assigned to them in section 32 of the Budget Foundations Law.

Members of the Council who are not State employees shall, in their activities as members of the Council, be treated as State employees for the purposes of the following enactments:

"reader" means a person holding a position in an institution who, by virtue of that position, participates in the evaluation, examination or selection of applications submitted to the institution for assistance in the production of films, excluding the director general of the institution, the deputy director general and any person directly subordinate to the director general, the artistic director of the institution, employees who are permanently employed by the institution, and a member of the board of directors of the institution or a body equivalent thereto;

"recognised institution of higher education" – (Repealed)

"periphery" – (Repealed)

"copyright" has the meaning assigned to it in section 11 of the Copyright Law, 5768-2007;

"cinematographic work" has the meaning assigned to it in the Copyright Law, 5768-2007;

"Israeli cinematographic work" means any of the following:

"administration" means any of the following:

"corporation for the joint administration of rights" means an organisation that administers, including jointly, the copyright of creators or of holders of copyright in Israeli cinematographic works.