Professional Studies for Screen-Based Media
Foundation Degree South West
 
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Programme Rights

If you own the rights to a programme or piece of work then nobody else can show it, use it or copy it. Rights can be sold and can be worth a large amount of money, but if they are sold it means that you have no control of what then happens to your work.

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Who will own the rights to a programme once it is made?

Melanie Leach    5.27 Melanie Leach
Jamie Barratt    5.28 Jamie Barratt