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13 J. Corp. L. 839 (1987-1988)
Copyright Infringement of Choreography: The Legal Aspects of Fixation

handle is hein.journals/jcorl13 and id is 849 raw text is: NOTES COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT OF CHOREOGRAPHY: THE LEGAL ASPECTS OF FIXATION* I. INTRODUCTION ................................................................... 839 II. BACKGROUND .................................................................... 841 III. FIXATiON .......................................................................... 845 IV. LEGAL STANDARDS ............................................................. 851 V . TOTALITY .......................................................................... 855 A. Best Edition or Complete Copy? .................................... 855 B. Totality Not Needed in Court ....................................... 858 VI. CONCLUSION ...................................................................... 860 I. INTRODUCTION Copyright law exists in order to stimulate the production of creative works,' a policy expressed in the United States Constitution by authorizing Congress to promote the Progress of Science and the useful Arts, by reserving, for limited Times to Authors and Inventors, the exclusive Rights to their respective Writings and Discoveries.''2 The theories behind copyright protection are: (1) that people must somehow be rewarded if they are to be encouraged to create for the public good; and (2) that dissemination of ideas to the public is good policy.3 Copyright protection should be only as extensive as necessary to elicit a socially optimal amount of creative activity.''4 The 1976 Copyright Act (the Act) grants the copyright holder certain exclusive rights' which provide economic incentives to the copyright holder. For example, * This Note has been entered in the Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition. 1. Comment, Unraveling the Choreographer's Copyright Dilemma, 49 TEN. L. REV. 594, 597 (1982). 2. U.S. CoNST. art. I, § 8, cl. 8. 3. Mazer v. Stein, 347 U.S. 201, 219 (1953). 4. United States v. Bily, 406 F. Supp. 726, 730 (E.D. Pa. 1975). 5. 17 U.S.C. § 106 (1976) states: Subject to sections 107 through 118, the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following: (1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords; (2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work; (3) to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending; (4) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works, to perform the copyrighted work publicly; and (5) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to display the copyrighted work publicly. Id.

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