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• The Legal Status of Titanic

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  Erzsébet Csatlós

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  It has been ten decades now since the luxurious, unsinkable ship started its first and last voyage. The centenary of the tragedy has put ancient shipwrecks into the centre of attention and denoted the legal gaps and anomalies of national and international legal efforts to regulate their legal status and to protect them from treasure hunters. The essay aims to define the legal status of R.M.S. Titanic as being one of the most famous shipwrecks of our time, its story and legal situation might be the object-lesson for the problems and deficiencies of the legal issue of international protection of underwater cultural heritage, the sovereignty and ownership of historical objects found at sea and the anomalies of customary international law concerning shipwrecks.

• To support or not to support? A critical look at film support schemes: the American and the European Model

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  Klára Szalay

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  138

  The current article aims at mapping the origins of film aid schemes, comparing the different motives that lay behind the American and European model eventually leading to a globally strengthening subsidy race. Rules guiding national subsidies for the film industry in the European Union have their limits in the State Aid rules of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union as well as the Communication of the Commission on certain legal aspects relating to cinematographic and other audiovisual works.