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==Controversy==

Any sort of rating system is prone to failure or ineffectiveness by all parties involved. ''Script coverage'' may suffer from the regular problematics of [[bureaucracy|bureaucracies]] as well as a system of reportage that is too removed from the actual material at hand. The internal rules of a production company are thus taken into play: the search for new material is often side-tracked by a tendency towards familiar material and safer genres. ''citation needed''{{fact}}

On the writer's side, a thorough knowledge of the business of production and script coverage mechanisms, (say, from reading this article), may yield a screenplay that has been tailored for acceptance rather than fresh ideas.