They raised the alarm about the growing number of buy-out and work-for-hire contracts being imposed on them by the major streamers. In effect, they claim these contracts force them to waive their copyright and/or authors’ rights in full or partially, cutting them out of future royalties.
Producers have been engaged in a similar battle with SVoDs, foregoing future international distribution revenues for their shows and receiving larger upfront production fees in their place. International SVoD services have successfully used this model for the best part of a decade but the composers and authors claim this “coercive” practice “deprive audiovisual composers from an appropriate and proportionate remuneration, as well as the exercise of their moral rights.”
“The issue is about fairness, since refusing such buy-out provisions is very difficult for composers due to the risk of being blacklisted,” said Helienne Lindvall, President of the European Composer and Songwriter Alliance , which represents 55 songwriter organizations.
Within creative circles, there had been hope the EU’s Copyright Directive would add protection to their work but Irish singer-songwriter Eleanor McEvoy said “those rules are not being applied by the market’s dominant players” because it “doesn’t fit their business model.”Must Read Stories
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