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February Career Training Events: Bill of Rights Workshop, Contract Coaching and Copyright Clinic

This month, join us for three career training webinars that will inform and empower you in your career as a dramatist. Find out how to register and manage your copyright with Deborah Murad, participate in a contract coaching seminar with Ralph Sevush, and make sure that you are aware of your rights as a dramatist. Discover more below! Do You Know Your Rights?: An Introduction to the Dramatists Bill of Rights ...
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New Works Now In The Public Domain By Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Dorothy Parker, and More

January 1, 2022 was Public Domain Day, the day each year when copyrights expire and new works enter the public domain. The “Progress Clause” of the U.S. Constitution established the legal basis for federal copyright law, and it did so in order to encourage the progress of our society, to incentivize the creation of new works that would eventually enrich the public ​domain and be accessible to everyone. So each work entering the public domain is an example of...
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Subsidiary Rights

You own the right to license your play into different markets (like tours, stock and amateur productions, foreign territories, etc.), and in all different media (television, radio, film, digital streaming, etc.) anywhere in the world. Producers at the Broadway, LORT, Off-Broadway, and even Off-Off-Broadway levels might request a portion of the revenues you earn after their productions.
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How Does The Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act (The CASE Act) Help Writers?

The Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act (the CASE Act) was signed into law in 2020, with the support of the Dramatists Guild. It establishes a small claims court-type tribunal within the United States Copyright Office that allows copyright owners (like dramatists) to bring claims in a less expensive and more efficient way.  The Case Act allows the Copyright Office to establish a Copyright Claims Board (the “CCB”) that can hear infringement...
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Dramatists Guild Launches New Link to Sink Piracy

Copyright - the right to make copies. Someone has it. Everyone else doesn’t. It seems so easy to understand and is, for those of us who create and own intellectual property. But the concept has always been a slippery one when we try to explain it to “every one else.”
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The WGA Script Registry Is No Substitute For Copyright Registration

The reason for this is that under U.S. copyright law, if a writer suing for copyright infringement wants to recover his attorney’s fees and/or statutory damages in the lawsuit, then the writer must have registered the work with the Copyright Office before the infringement began. But the law considers the infringement to have begun when the infringing script is written.
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