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What is a performing arts work?!

Performing arts copyrights are available for the types of media listed below.  When you want to copyright a movie script, sheet music, or a play, you want a performing arts copyright, and to make sure it is right, you want to use Register My Copyright!  Performing arts works are intended to be “performed” directly before an audience or indirectly “by means of any device or process.” Included are:

• musical works, including any accompanying words (for sound recordings register as a sound recording).  These include:
  • sheet music
  • original compositions
  • original arrangements
  • new versions of earlier compositions
• dramatic works, including any accompanying music.  These include:
  • plays
  • screenplays
  • radio scripts 
  • television scripts
• pantomimes and choreographic works.  These include:
  • composition and arrangement of dance movements and patterns usually intended to be accompanied by music
  • imitating or acting out situations, characters, or other events.
• motion pictures and other audiovisual works.

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