Stories we sell: Intellectual property, ownership and the impact on Canadian screenwriters
Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article explores the shifting role of screenwriters, highlighting the increasing complexity and volume of work in modern scripted television production and interrogating why screenwriters do not participate in the creative and financial ownership of their projects. Rather than protecting artists, this article argues that copyright law, along with the ‘industry standard’ ownership structure, favours the profit-motive and disadvantages screenwriters. Specifically, this analysis is framed in an English–Canadian context amidst historic media policy reform that attempts to regulate foreign-owned streaming services and challenges how Canadian content is defined. By focusing on screenwriters, both historically and today, this article brings an under-represented perspective to light and captures the precarity of the screenwriting profession in Canada, a struggle that is mirrored in other international territories.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it