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

I return to the subject of my earlier questions on the film industry. I will firstly address copyright and intellectual property rights. The legislation sets out that "The right to equitable remuneration conferred by this section shall not be waived by the performer and the performer shall not assign the right to equitable remuneration except to a collecting society". However, the contracts that producers are forcing performers to sign state that the artist agrees that the consideration herein constitutes equitable remuneration for the assignment of all rights pursuant to the above and represents a full buy-out of all rights. The producer companies that the State is funding are breaching the rights of writers, performers and actors.

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