Tags: Copyright Advocacy

The Copyright Advocacy Committee is gearing up for Copyright Awareness Week 2022, which kicks off on Monday, April 25. What is Copyright? Copyright is to writers what patents are to inventors. When you create original written material, whether it’s a play, musical, libretto, lyric, or song, you automatically own that copyright. Your work is protected by your copyright, which is what gives you the ability to negotiate...

The Dramatists Guild of America is pleased to announce the launch of a new initiative: #DontChangeTheWords to educate the public about copyright infringement; reporting hotline and webpage also launched. In response to persistent and troubling reports of copyright infringement within high school and college theater departments, the Dramatists Guild has launched a new initiative called #...