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.

中文翻译：

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为什么编舞者不对他们的作品进行版权保护？

摘要

报道的舞蹈版权判例法的缺乏表明，编舞者在寻求通过版权所有权赋予的权力方面并没有像作曲家或作家等其他作者那样积极。鉴于主导编舞者职业生涯的社会经济和政治因素，我研究了编舞者无法或不愿诉诸诉讼来确立其版权的历史背景。我的结论是，编舞者对版权的态度正在发生变化，因为他们对失去对美国和英国版权法赋予编舞者的一系列权利的控制的危险意识的增强。