Transparency reports — Article 19 / S.I. 567/2021

Transparency reports are the producer's statutory obligation to report regularly to talent with profit-participation deals — writers, directors, composers, lead performers, etc. — on the exploitation of the work they contributed to. Established at EU level by Article 19 of Directive 2019/790 and transposed into Irish law as S.I. 567/2021.

The obligation

A producer who has acquired rights from a writer / director / composer / performer who has a residual / profit-participation interest must, at least annually, provide that party with:

• Mode of exploitation per territory
• Revenue generated
• Producer's costs deducted
• Net profits or producer's share
• The recipient's share calculated against their participation rate
• Information that allows the participant to assess fairness

The strict reading of the SI: a producer who hasn't issued a full set of reports for any reporting period more than 12 months old is non-compliant.

Jurisdiction matters

The legal basis cited on the transparency report is driven by the recipient's country of residence, not the producer's:

In Togra

Producer-side: /transparency.php (slate-wide) and /transparency-project.php (per-project periods + recipients); publish via /transparency-publish.php; the slate-wide compliance dashboard (6 KPIs) is /transparency-compliance.php.

Recipient-side: tokenised view at /r.php?t=<token> with inline glossary + ability to file queries or objections.

Talent-side: cross-producer aggregator at /worker-transparency.php — a writer with deals at three different producers signs into one Togra account and sees every report addressed to their email across all those producers.

Related

• CAMA — Contract Adjustment Mechanism — Composers' Annual Music Audit, where Irish-law CAMA applies on top of the transparency obligation
• Residual obligations — the underlying contractual structures that drive what gets reported
• Net profits — the calculation basis — the calculation basis