PART Two: Artist / PRactitioner

Part Overview

To analyse how dance practice could be described for different audiences
To learn about the law of copyright, authorship and ownership and how it applies to your practice
To understand the scope of the exclusive rights in copyright, and their limitations
To appreciate how moral rights apply to you and to your work
To analyse and interpret the elements that make up a licence, what they mean, and how you could use a licence to allow other people to use your work
To complete, in part, a business plan template

This part has been prepared for the (disabled) dance artist. The overall aim is to give you the legal tools you will need if you want to licence your dance works to third parties in the marketplace.

In an age of austerity, it is important to think about ways in which public funding might be supplemented through a range of different avenues. One of these would be to consider how your dance work could be used, with your permission, by third parties.

The aim of this part is to help you to identify, for the purposes of copyright law, what it is that you own in a dance and what you can therefore licence to other people.

It is also important to think about copyright in collaborative dance projects. Many dance projects are developed through collaborations between people who have known each other for a long time and who may never have thought about authorship and ownership of the works that they create. So, starting to think about ownership can be challenging – but it will become easier.