Dance theorists and legal scholars argue that choreography is by nature ill-suited to the conceptual framework provided by copyright, even as there is widespread agreement that works of dance deserve the legal protection and cultural endorsement that its inclusion represents. I reexamine the factors that are often cited as barriers to choreography's suitability for copyright. I argue that choreography is better suited to the copyright regime than it appears, so long as we recognize that the artistic standard for substantial similarity should be different from the legal standard.

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“你偷了我的作品！而且你偷得不好！” 编排、版权和不熟练的迭代问题

舞蹈理论家和法律学者认为，编舞本质上不适合版权提供的概念框架，尽管人们普遍认为舞蹈作品应该得到法律保护和文化认可。我重新审视了经常被引用为阻碍编排是否适合版权的因素。我认为舞蹈编排比看起来更适合版权制度，只要我们认识到实质相似的艺术标准应该不同于法律标准。