On 09/13/2013 01:17 PM, Dan Pearl wrote: > Last time I checked, dance sequences were not copyrightable.
In the United States (Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, just someone who happens to be interested in copyright law and dancing) choreographic works have been copyrightable since 1978 (see the Federal Copyright Law of 1976). More information here [1]. Note that you do not have to register your work (again, in the USA, no idea elsewhere) for it to be protected by copyright. > In every instance I have seen, publishers of dance collections have > gone the extra step of getting permission from the dance author to > include their dance. I'm not sure any of those Creative Commons > licenses map exactly to this situation. CC definitely applies; In §1¶f, `[the] work' specifically includes `a choreographic work or entertainment in dumb show'. While this isn't exactly dance, I think it gets the point across that choreography counts as part of `the literary and/or artistic work offered under the terms of this License including without limitation any production in the literary, scientific and artistic domain, whatever may be the mode or form of its expression including digital form...' It also defines `publicly perform' in such a way that I would assume (again: I'm not a lawyer) would include calling a dance at a contra, and `reproduce' to include copying a dance card. The full legalcode (for BY-NC 3.0; not the summary I linked to before) can be found here [2]. —Sam [1]: http://www.csulb.edu/~jvancamp/copyrigh.html [2]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode -- Sam Whited pub 4096R/EC2C9934 https://samwhited.com/contact
