Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

One of the other things about which I am curious because I have read the Equity submission - I think this committee needs to seriously investigate this - is that the producers who receive section 481 assistance on the explicit requirement of creating employment and training, but then say they are not and could never be an employer when asked by employees for their rights, also seem to have ownership of the content about which we are talking. At the very least, there is a question mark over where the ownership of the content goes. In its submission, Equity says that in respect of the intellectual property and the royalties that would flow from their share of that intellectual property, they are either asked to sign away their entitlement or to get a far lower proportion of it than in other jurisdictions. Is it the case that the producer is saying on one hand that it cannot have employees but on the other that it owns the intellectual property?