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

-----buy out contracts to effectively sign away those people's right to future royalties. If a film is very successful, and goes on Netflix and Amazon, those actors, writers and directors do not get the downstream royalties because they have been forced to sign a buy-out contract. Similarly, film crews stated they have been blacklisted and that their rights under the fixed term workers Act are not being vindicated. What was interesting, when I met loads of new people at the forum, was that all were talking about the lack of security in employment and income for people in the film industry. All this money is going to film producers who are systematically trying to prevent the vindication of rights for writers, actors, performers, film crew and everybody, while they are still getting loads of money from the public. This needs to be addressed.

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