{"title":"Why Don’t Choreographers Copyright Their Works?","authors":"Francis Yeoh","doi":"10.1080/01472526.2022.2064162","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"abstract The paucity of reported case law on dance copyright indicates that choreographers have not been as active as other authors, such as composers or writers, in seeking the powers bestowed through copyright ownership. I examine the historical context of choreographers’ inability or reluctance to resort to litigation to establish their copyrights in light of the socio-economic and political factors that dominate the choreographers’ professional lives. I conclude that choreographers’ attitudes to copyright are changing as their awareness grows regarding the dangers of losing control of the bundle of rights bestowed on choreographers by the US and UK copyright laws.","PeriodicalId":42141,"journal":{"name":"DANCE CHRONICLE","volume":"45 1","pages":"155 - 172"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"DANCE CHRONICLE","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01472526.2022.2064162","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"DANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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abstract The paucity of reported case law on dance copyright indicates that choreographers have not been as active as other authors, such as composers or writers, in seeking the powers bestowed through copyright ownership. I examine the historical context of choreographers’ inability or reluctance to resort to litigation to establish their copyrights in light of the socio-economic and political factors that dominate the choreographers’ professional lives. I conclude that choreographers’ attitudes to copyright are changing as their awareness grows regarding the dangers of losing control of the bundle of rights bestowed on choreographers by the US and UK copyright laws.
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For dance scholars, professors, practitioners, and aficionados, Dance Chronicle is indispensable for keeping up with the rapidly changing field of dance studies. Dance Chronicle publishes research on a wide variety of Western and non-Western forms, including classical, avant-garde, and popular genres, often in connection with the related arts: music, literature, visual arts, theatre, and film. Our purview encompasses research rooted in humanities-based paradigms: historical, theoretical, aesthetic, ethnographic, and multi-modal inquiries into dance as art and/or cultural practice. Offering the best from both established and emerging dance scholars, Dance Chronicle is an ideal resource for those who love dance, past and present. Recently, Dance Chronicle has featured special issues on visual arts and dance, literature and dance, music and dance, dance criticism, preserving dance as a living legacy, dancing identity in diaspora, choreographers at the cutting edge, Martha Graham, women choreographers in ballet, and ballet in a global world.
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