Common use of Script Payment Clause in Contracts

Script Payment. In consideration of the writing services undertaken by the Writer the BBC shall pay to the Writer the Script Fee payable in accordance with Deal Memo. The Script Fee shall acquire a Single Transmission of the Programme on a Primary Channel or in the case of commissions for Digital Channel the fee shall acquire 9 Playdays. The Script Fee buys the transmission package described above plus 30 days catch up video on demand, simultaneous European Cable transmission and worldwide Non-Theatric Use Drama £13,320 per hour (pro rata) Series and Serials £10,570 per hour (pro rata) The above rates apply to all scripts except in the case where a writer who has had less than 2 hours transmitted in which case a 20% reduction on the minimum rates above shall apply. On FDPP the BBC shall pay a further sum equal to 100% of the script fee as an advance against fees due in respect of any subsequent uses. The SUA would not apply to: Scripts for Long Running Series, commissions for Digital Channels and Daytime commissions Where a commission for a Digital Channel is transmitted on a non-Digital Channel the SUA will be paid (exceptionally the Writer and the Producer may agree that the SUA is not payable in the event that transmission on a non-Digital Channel is considered in the interests of re-commission). At this point a recoupment is made in accordance with the repeat rates listed in Schedule Seven. For repeat purposes television transmission hours are categorised as either peak, daytime, shoulder-peak or night-time. Special provisions apply to a repeat within 7 days of a previous transmission of the programme. Transmission Period Repeat Fee as percentage of Fee Narrative Repeat as percentage of Fee Peak (18.00 – 22.30) First peak repeat – 75% Second and subsequent - 100% 56.25% / 75% Shoulder Peak (22.30- 23.30) 40% 30% Daytime (09.25-18.00) 25% 18.75% Night-time (23.30- 09.25) 10% 7.5% If a repeat is transmitted over more than one time band as described above, then the higher value percentage payment shall apply. For Channel 4 commissions - following the 30 day catch up video on demand period further use of the programme on the video on demand service currently known as ‘All 4’ shall attract a payment of 5.6% of the prevailing producer ▇▇▇▇▇ per view rate in operation at the time. Clauses 17.2-17.5 are hereby replaced with the following. The Writer in recognising the needs of television production grants to the BBC the absolute and unlimited right to use the Script for all purposes granted hereunder in any manner the BBC may in its discretion think fit and, hereby waives all so-called moral rights relating to the Script to which the Writer may be entitled pursuant to Chapter IV of the Copyright Designs and Patents ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ (“the Act”) or any amendment or modification thereto or any similar law in any country of the world and hereby agrees not to institute support maintain or permit any action or lawsuit on the ground that any audio-visual or other version of the Script produced and/or exploited by the BBC in any way constitutes an infringement of any moral rights of the Writer or is in any way a distortion or mutilation of the Script or contains unauthorised variations alterations adaptations modifications changes additions deletions or translations SAVE THAT the Writer asserts the right not to have work falsely attributed to the Writer. 1 The BBC shall be entitled without consent to make use of extracts from the Programme based on the Script for incorporation in new programmes upon the terms set out below.

Script Payment. In consideration of the writing services undertaken by the Writer the BBC shall pay to the Writer the Script Fee payable in accordance with Deal Memo. The Script Fee shall acquire a Single Transmission of the Programme on a Primary Channel or in the case of commissions for Digital Channel the fee shall acquire 9 Playdays. The Script Fee buys the transmission package described above plus 30 days catch up video on demand, simultaneous European Cable transmission and worldwide Non-Non- Theatric Use Drama £13,320 per hour (pro rata) Series and Serials £10,570 per hour (pro rata) The above rates apply to all scripts except in the case where a writer who has had less than 2 hours transmitted in which case a 20% reduction on the minimum rates above shall apply. On FDPP the BBC shall pay a further sum equal to 100% of the script fee as an advance against fees due in respect of any subsequent uses. The SUA would not apply to: Scripts for Long Running Series, commissions for Digital Channels and Daytime commissions Where a commission for a Digital Channel is transmitted on a non-Digital Channel the SUA will be paid (exceptionally the Writer and the Producer may agree that the SUA is not payable in the event that transmission on a non-Digital Channel is considered in the interests of re-commission). At this point a recoupment is made in accordance with the repeat rates listed in Schedule Seven. For repeat purposes television transmission hours are categorised as either peak, daytime, shoulder-peak or night-time. Special provisions apply to a repeat within 7 days of a previous transmission of the programme. Transmission Period Repeat Fee as percentage of Fee Narrative Repeat as percentage of Fee Peak (18.00 – 22.30) First peak repeat – 75% Second and subsequent - 100% 56.25% / 75% Shoulder Peak (22.30- 23.30) 40% 30% Daytime (09.25-18.00) 25% 18.75% Night-time (23.30- 09.25) 10% 7.5% If a repeat is transmitted over more than one time band as described above, then the higher value percentage payment shall apply. For Channel 4 commissions - following the 30 day catch up video on demand period further use of the programme on the video on demand service currently known as ‘All 4’ shall attract a payment of 5.6% of the prevailing producer ▇▇▇▇▇ per view rate in operation at the time. Clauses 17.2-17.5 are hereby replaced with the following. The Writer in recognising the needs of television production grants to the BBC the absolute and unlimited right to use the Script for all purposes granted hereunder in any manner the BBC may in its discretion think fit and, hereby waives all so-called moral rights relating to the Script to which the Writer may be entitled pursuant to Chapter IV of the Copyright Designs and Patents ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ (“the Act”) or any amendment or modification thereto or any similar law in any country of the world and hereby agrees not to institute support maintain or permit any action or lawsuit on the ground that any audio-visual or other version of the Script produced and/or exploited by the BBC in any way constitutes an infringement of any moral rights of the Writer or is in any way a distortion or mutilation of the Script or contains unauthorised variations alterations adaptations modifications changes additions deletions or translations SAVE THAT the Writer asserts the right not to have work falsely attributed to the Writer. 1 The BBC shall be entitled without consent to make use of extracts from the Programme based on the Script for incorporation in new programmes upon the terms set out below.