In fact, our position is slightly different, although it is not opposed to that. A lot of subtle distinctions must be drawn. There are differences between film and television, for example.
In television, one can imagine a television program for which the director, for example, does the airwave transmission. The airwave transmission is clearly identified in France, but not here. Airwave transmission does not enjoy copyright. One can imagine a television program like what we call a "chair show" in French, where someone only writes linking texts. That may be a welcome and the introduction of the person who is going to do his number. We believe that is not subject to copyright. There could be a television program where the director and screenwriter would not have copyright. At the same time, if you write that the authors must specifically be the director and the screenwriter, that my have the effect of assigning rights where there are none or, on the contrary, of stripping rights from those who should have them. I'm omitting the details, but I could discuss this at length.
The solution we are proposing is that an exemption be included in the act, as there currently is one in the case of an employer. An employer who pays people to create a work is the primary rights holder. He's not the author, but he is the primary rights holder for the purpose of subsequently exploiting that work.
In our view, the producer is in the same situation, with one exception, and that is that our industry consists mainly of freelancers. So we can't automatically enjoy the exemption appearing in the act. In the same respect as an employer, we pay everyone who takes part in preparing the work and, we are ultimately the ones who exploit it. That, in short, is our position.