On the People’s Nature of Judicature from the Way of Ma Xiwu’s Trial Mode

As the product of the judicial work under the leadership of the Party during the Chinese revolution, the Ma Xiwu’s Trial Mode is a creative contribution of the Chinese Communists to the judicial work, bearing the spiritual core of the red judicial culture of the People’s Republic of China, focusing on investigation and research, facilitating the mass litigation and solving disputes on the spot. Under the background of socialism with Chinese characteristics stepping into a new era, people’s judicature is the essential feature of socialist judicial system with Chinese characteristics. The core connotation of people’s judicature is reflected in Ma Xiwu’s judicial stand of people-centered, judicial idea of justice as the core, working principle of insisting on the dialectical unity of people’s nature and impartiality of judicature and evaluation standard of reflecting public opinion.

The Copyrightability of Opera Direction

A judgment of the Italian Court of Cassation – No. 17565 of 18 June 2021 – offers an opportunity to investigate the legal protection options applicable to the direction of opera. As this issue is not addressed by EU law, EU Member States have adopted different approaches, from awarding copyright, to neighboring rights, to a mixture of the two. This opinion aims at finding the most consistent solution within the Italian legal framework. After an assessment of the alternative legal options, it argues that opera direction should be eligible for copyright protection via an analogical application of Art. 44 of the Italian copyright law, which indirectly includes cinematic direction within the area of copyrightable works. This conclusion is based on the fact that there are no substantial differences between the two types of direction justifying a diverse treatment. Otherwise, it would result in blatant and unsubstantiated discrimination because both categories of directors set out to convert a text – the dramatic text or the film script – to the medium of theatre or film respectively. Finally, this opinion suggests that even if the other creative roles involved in opera making are not addressed by the law, they too should qualify as co-authors if they make a creative contribution.

The outstanding architect Alexander Iosifovich Bernardazzi (1831–1907)

This year marks the 190th birthday of the famous Swiss architect of Italian origin A.I. Bernardazzi, who is also known for creating various historic buildings in Ukraine, Bessarabia and Poland. Archival documents were an evidence of the beginning of architectural career of Bernardazzi, when the Bessarabian Road and Construction Commission appointed him as the technician for urban planning of Akkerman and Bendery in 1853 and also for building some bridges and causeways in those districts. He took part in the organization of the third market in the Forest Square in Kishinev in September of 1855. This was the first mission of his creativity in Kishinev. Alexander Bernardazzi executed his duty as municipal architect from 1856 to 1878 having taken the place of another architect Luca Zaushkevich. All his subsequent monumental buildings became the best examples of European architecture by their style, shape, and quality. . In Bessarabia, he participated in the design and construction of many buildings such as the temporal theatre, the Lutheran school, the railway station, the Greek Church, the Manuk-Bei’s palace, etc. As for Kishinev, the architect Bernardazzi performed the beautification of paving many streets, the construction of urban water supply and the cast-iron railing in the city park. Also, he participated in many architects’ meetings where he submitted interesting reports referring to the theater, some windows, fire safety of buildings and so on. After his arrival to Odessa in 1878, Alexander Bernardazzi continued to participate in designing social and civil buildings in Bessarabia. For his enormous creative contribution to urban development, he was appreciated with the title of honorable citizen of Kishinev and appointed member of the Bessarabian department of the Imperial Russian Technical Society.

Autonomous Organizations

Under current business law, it is already possible to give legal personhood, or a very close surrogate of it, to software systems of any kind (from a simple automated escrow agent to a more hypothetical, truly smart artificial intelligence). This means that, for example, robots could enter into contracts, serve as legal agents, or own property. Ultimately, entire companies could actually be run by non-human agents. This study argues that this is not as scary as it might sound at first. Legal theorist and noted software developer Shawn Bayern argues that autonomous or zero-person organizations offer an opportunity for useful new types of interactions between software and the law. This creative contribution to the theory and practice of law and technology explores the social and political aspects of these new organizational structures and their implications for legal theory.

Classification of copyrighted objects

Formulation of the problem. The article is devoted to the classification of copyright objects. Researchers' views on the division of different works into relevant types and groups are analyzed. It is emphasized that copyright objects are in constant dynamics, due to globalization, development of scientific and technological progress, social networks. Recent research on the topic. The characteristics of copyright objects were addressed by the same researchers as O.E. Abramov, I.I. Vishchynets, O.V. Zhilinkova. O.O. Odintsova. O.O. Shtefan, R.B. Shishka, N.E. Yarkina. M.M. Yasharova, etc. Despite their contribution to the development of the concept of the object of copyright, an updated study of the classification of copyrighted objects by them is not offered in full. The purpose. To investigate and analyse the characteristics and features of copyrighted objects, to distinguish their common and distinctive features that are important for the classification of copyrighted objects. Article’s main body. It was established that for the objects of copyright remains unchanged what they are: should be the result of human creative activity; have novelty, originality, as inherent properties of creativity; characterized by fixation, which at the same time should be static, which complicates further changes to the object; free from the structure of the content, which can be varied in its content; objects regardless of the fact of publication. It is noted that there are changes in the legislation of Ukraine on expanding the list of copyright objects. Separately, the issue of original and derivative works was investigated. Certain feature of composite works. It is noted that the definition of the original work and its inherent features in the Law is important in terms of ensuring a unified systematic approach to law enforcement activities for both derivative works and part (title) of the work. On the basis of the above proposed the following classification of copyright objects: depending on the creative nature of the work, copyright objects may be divided into: original (created exclusively in the form of personal creative contribution of the author) and derivative works (creativity consists in searching, combining the creative achievements of other authors); in the objective form of expression: oral, written, electronic, three-dimensional; according to the criterion of the internal content of the work: simple (covering structurally one object) and complex (may consist of different objects of copyright); depending on the characteristics of the processing of the original work: objects of holistic processing of works and objects of partial processing (processing of excerpts of various works); depending on the nature of financial support, copyright objects may be divided into: objects created on the basis of state order, created on the basis of private orders or financed personally by the author at will; depending on the possibility of distinguishing homogeneous elements of the work into: dividing and indivisible works.

Formation and Development of the Kyiv School of Art Textiles: Traditions and Innovations

The purpose of the article is to outline – based on analyzing the development of the Kyiv School of Decorative Arts in context of the historical and artistic process of the XXth to XXIst centuries – the main principles of specialization Art Textiles on the ground of the Mykhaylo Boychuk Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design. The methodology consists of applying an art history approach to historical and artistic analyses of works of artistic textiles, as well as the systematic consideration of peculiarities of the Kyiv School of Decorative Arts. The scientific novelty lies in the substantiation of a phenomenon of the Kyiv School of Art Textiles, creative-pedagogical and scientific-methodological means in teaching students, themes of diploma theses as an important component in preserving ethnic memory, and national-cultural identity. Conclusions. The results of the study highlight the features of the artistic language of the Kyiv School of Textiles, the specifics of scientific and pedagogical methods used in the Academy, as well as the creative guidelines of the teaching staff. Defined are prospective trends of development and strengthening of the Department of Art Textiles and Costume Modelling, principles of comprehending the conventional art and its transformation into the newest stylistic forms to meet today’s requirements. The scientific research gives an idea of ​​the current state of decorative art and artistic textiles, and the creative contribution of the scientific and pedagogical staff of the ATCM Department in the context of the integration of Ukrainian art into the European cultural space.

The Scientist, Teacher, Public Figure (the V.V. Chernikov’s Creative Contribution to the Development of the Nizhniy Novgorod Academy of the Ministry of the Interior of Russia)

The article is dedicated to the 70th anniversary of LL.D., Professor Valeriy V. Chernikov. The author notes that Valeriy V. Chernikov has a rare ability to set priorities and build relationships in a team achieving success in what seems to be absolutely hopeless cases. Professor Valeriy V. Chernikov preserves traditions of the police service, teaching, educational work and yet is on the constant look-out, acts as a pioneer in many spheres of the human rights mission.

Diplomatic heritage of a prominent live

22.06.2021 marks the 100th anniversary of the prominent Soviet diplomat, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USSR L. N. Musatov (1921–2001). His handwritten legacy reflects the stages of a great life, from the party leadership (since 1957-second secretary of the Ulyanovsk Regional Party Committee) to work in the USSR Foreign Ministry, where he became "one of the best ambassadors"-Africanists. Ambassador to Mali (late 1965–1970), Guinea (1973–1978), Guinea-Bissau (1974–1975), Madagascar (1980–1986), he always worked with enthusiasm, achieving great achievements, for which he was awarded orders. He was a non-capitalist theorist with an "African face", in the most flexible economic forms. He focused on economic diplomacy, the study of which during the Soviet period is just beginning. These developing countries now rely on the bauxite plant in Guinea, Kindia, a cement plant and gold mining in Mali. L. N. Musatov emphasized common values in the development of cooperation, the donation of cultural objects, the sending of Africans to study in the USSR, which helped to form a benevolent elite towards Russia. Such facts contributed to the birth of the traditions of Russian-African cooperation and the holding of the Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi in 2019, as well as to the adoption of strategic decisions on the revival of bilateral cooperation. L. N. Musatov made a great contribution to the study of classical diplomacy, "the diplomacy of trust " (first, on the experience of his communication with the President of Madagascar). He loved working with people, and a whole galaxy of new Russian diplomats with the rank of ambassadors and envoys came out of his embassies. In general, the memory of a diplomat is determined not only and not so much by appointments and business trips, but by the creative contribution of everyone in their field of work, embodied in constructive deeds. Only they remain in history and are in demand by descendants.

God

Interpreters sometimes read Niebuhr as an ethicist whose writings are shaped by an anthropology rather than by theology or a doctrine of God, but this is too simple. Niebuhr’s understanding of God is marked by his turn toward myth and a relational core theology keyed to biblical images of God as Creator, Judge, and Redeemer. Though neither systematic nor as extensively developed as his anthropology, theology remains integral to his thinking. A doctrine of God is present implicitly in Niebuhr’s work even where not articulated explicitly, and it makes a creative contribution to Christian theology. Indeed, it ought to be developed further, especially with respect to aspects of religious experience and a sense of hope.