Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 May 2024
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (Resumed)
Ms Moe Honan:
I normally co-develop and co-produce intellectual property. My point about that was that if I cannot have reliable structures around funding and cannot sell that when trying to attract co-financing and co-creating partners in Europe, and do not have the certainty of owning the rights as well, I have no framework to work. It creates an uncertainty on behalf of others to look at me as an Irish co-producer. Where I can have solid funding, I can try to retain more of the rights on the IP for the company and, therefore, I can create a larger worker split and give employment to more people. If the project becomes so successful that there are some revenues coming back into my company, I can reinvest in employment and the development of a future project. It is the core of co-producing as opposed to looking at other models of work which are very much a strong part of our ecosystem, which is the incoming and service. They are all important. I was speaking to that piece, which is a co-production model.
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