How to Negotiate Fair Compensation for Your Screenplay? New CIRG Video
10. 11. 2026 work in culture copyright film industry
How can screenwriters negotiate fair compensation and protect their copyright? In the latest instalment of CIRG’s practical video series for film professionals, screenwriter and director Jiří Andrš and lawyer Rudolf Leška explain what to watch out for when negotiating with producers, how to link remuneration to a film’s budget or revenues, and how to strengthen screenwriters’ bargaining position.
The video How to Negotiate Fair Compensation for Your Screenplay? follows the previous episode, Who Owns Your Film Idea?, and was produced as part of a research project Comprehensive Research and Support for the Development of the Cultural and Creative Industries in the Olomouc Agglomeration focused on improving working conditions in the cultural and creative industries.
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CIRG – the Cultural Industries Research Group focuses on research into cultural and media industries, particularly on current issues, challenges, and conflicts arising from tensions between intellectual property law, the business models of cultural industries, the digitalization and platformization of cultural sectors, and changing consumer habits. The group’s name is an acronym of its English title, Cultural Industries Research Group. CIRG is an informal association of experts from media studies, intellectual property law, media law, media ethics, cultural economics and cultural management, sociology of culture, and data analysis. The group operates on the basis of project-based funding through applied research projects (TAČR, NAKI, EEA and Norway Grants, OP JAK Intersectoral Cooperation), basic research projects (GAČR, ZIF Bielefeld, OP VVV Excellent Research, DFG), as well as contract research (State Cinematography Fund, Association of Audiovisual Producers).
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