Emer Higgins (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

To clarify, Regulation 27 is about transparency. Once you have your transparency, Regulation 28 kicks in and that offers authors and performers a contractual adjustment mechanism when the remuneration originally agreed turns out to be disproportionately low compared to the success of their work. That is important to clarify. To be clear, the existing copyright legislation ensures that rights holders have an effective means of enforcing their rights by way of proceedings before the appropriate courts. Alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, which are without prejudice to any judicial remedies, are provided for too.

On a separate matter, I am happy to confirm my Department recently received Government approval to draft and publish a short Bill to address a known mischief detected in the Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000 and I will talk to the House about that at a later point. I acknowledge the work done by the Deputy's committee on this. I can go into further details of the tax credit mentioned by Deputy Boyd Barrett and the budgetary oversight element of it, if he wishes.

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