Ms Liz Murray:

It is muddier than the darkest Hollywood drama. It is so muddy that it is very difficult to understand. One of the largest production companies has told us that it owned content in a particular project and, therefore, could make an arrangement with the crew. Arrangements were made in terms of employment and a profit and the producer said he could do that because he owned some of the content, as I understand it. I do not know who owns any other content. I imagine the Americans do not let it go cheaply when they come here. I do not imagine so. I do not know the answer to that but I know what Equity is talking about - because the crews do as well - is the fact that they have to sign over their intellectual property rights to the producer. A producer is actually entitled to intellectual property rights in a production. A producer owns that. For performers, there is equitable remuneration for their rights. They sign a contract as with the DAC company. After that DAC is wound up, they are supposed to be told where their intellectual property rights go - who then has ownership of those intellectual property rights - but they are not told that. They do not know what happens.