Copyright Advocacy Month: Playwrights and Copyright

September 2020 is Copyright Advocacy Month at the Dramatists Guild! For 30 days, we will share tips on what exactly copyright means, how it benefits theatrical writers, and what you can do to protect your copyright. We will be posting this information on their social media channels, sending it out via email, and publishing it on our website. We kick things off with Doug Wright's article from the May/June 2015 issue of The Dramatist.

  • Doug Wright delivering the keynote speech on the last day of the Guild’s 2013 National Conference in Chicago.
    Doug Wright delivering the keynote speech on the last day of the Guild’s 2013 National Conference in Chicago.
  • "Copyright acknowledges the innate worth of an individual author’s voice...as distinctive as a thumb print or a strand of DNA. It’s a patent, if you will, on artistic expression."   Doug Wright

BROADWAY, 1926

The Rialto is alive with drama. At the Mansfield Theater, a revival of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Beyond the Horizon is enjoying a healthy run. At the Imperial, George Gershwin’s prohibition romp Oh, Kay is a bona fide sell-out. At the Mayfair, an unexpected guest upstages the opening night of a searing marital tragedy entitled The Half-Naked Truth. In the words of critic Brooks Atkinson:

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