Elżbieta Skrętkowska has been associated with for years TVP. She worked as a director of entertainment programs. She is the creator and producer of “Chances of success“. After leaving Wojciech Mann the program was discontinued, but returned in 2019 when the president of the station was Jacek Kurski. At that time, Skrętkowska refused to cooperate because she could not imagine working in TVP during the previous government. After its change, she hoped to find out why someone else was signing the “Chance for Success” scenario that she had invented. As she revealed Pleiadesthere was a meeting with the current authorities TVPwhich, however, did not go as she expected. The station responded to her words and sent a statement to the media.
Elżbieta Skrętkowska strongly about the meeting with the TVP authorities
Elżbieta Skrętkowska said in an interview with Plejada, what the meeting with the general director of TVP, Tomasz Sygut, and the director of the programming office, Sławomir Zieliński, looked like. “When I introduced Marzena Gryzińska (director and producer, with whom Skrętkowska had previously worked – editor's note) and suggested that she could take on 'Szansa…', it was met with strong opposition. I heard that TVP already had its own team. After a while, Mr. Zieliński asked: 'So, we don't have the right to change the programme and do whatever we want with it?' I didn't think that the director of the TVP programming office didn't even know what copyright law looks like in Poland. After all, the law clearly states that no changes can be made without the author's consent,” she said. Skrętkowska also allegedly heard from Sławomir Zieliński that “the program is just regular karaoke and anyone can create something like that.”
TVP responds to Elżbieta Skrętkowska's interview
Telewizja Polska sent a statement to our editorial office. “In reference to the statement by Elżbieta Skrętkowska, who spreads false information in the media about the broadcast 'Szansa na sukces', we would like to inform you that the sole owner of the copyright and dependent rights to this format is Telewizja Polska. Telewizja Polska has the exclusive right to produce the programme, the right to format it and the right to the trademark,” we learn.
Elżbieta Skrętkowska was a full-time employee of TVP for many years and all rights to the works she created were acquired, by operation of law, by her employer. Also after her retirement, writing scripts and directing “Szansa na sukces” on behalf of TVP, Elżbieta Skrętkowska each time transferred all copyrights and rights to continue the production to Telewizja Polska
– we read. “It is worth adding that in 2019, after the resumption of 'Szansa na sukces', Elżbieta Skrętkowska rejected a job offer as a director or consultant for the substantive program and began escalating unjustified demands of a financial nature. We treat Elżbieta Skrętkowska's recent activity in the media as a continuation of these demands. At the same time, we assure you that Telewizja Polska respects and cares for the copyrights of all creators. The best proof of this is the fact that in 2023 alone, Telewizja Polska transferred over PLN 100 million to creators through collective management organizations,” the statement reads.