‘So, You Think You Can Dance?’ An Exploratory Study of Performers’ Rights of Classical Ballet Dancers and Bharatanatyam Dancers

Sharma, Seemantani

‘So, You Think You Can Dance?’ An Exploratory Study of Performers’ Rights of Classical Ballet Dancers and Bharatanatyam Dancers

Sharma, Seemantani

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dc.contributor.author	Sharma, Seemantani
dc.date.accessioned	2024-04-12T01:48:01Z
dc.date.available	2024-04-12T01:48:01Z
dc.date.issued	2023
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/177804
dc.description	University of Technology Sydney. Faculty of Law.	en_US.UTF-8
dc.description.abstract	Dancers lead precarious lives due to their poor pay and shorter career-spans. Most dancers struggle to support themselves financially once their dance career ends. The original objective behind adopting the international performers' rights regime was to address the livelihood concerns of performers and their overall well-being. Despite this, copyright scholars have never analysed the role of a performers' rights regime in the everyday lives of dancers. This thesis investigates the lived experience of dancers in Australia and India with copyright law and contracts. It uncovers the link between the performers' rights regime and the legal and economic status of dancers. In doing so, it supplements the existing doctrinal research on performers’ rights by providing empirical evidence on the legal concerns of dancers in relation to their dance performances, whether a performers' rights regime could mitigate those concerns, and the impact of performers' right of remuneration on their economic status. It also reviews the existing theories and concepts of copyright law and whether they could be adapted to understand the rights of dancers with respect to their dance performances. Lastly, it proposes copyright, non-copyright, and general policy recommendations to improve the financial status of dancers.	en_US.UTF-8
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dc.rights	© 2023 Seemantani Sharma
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dc.title	‘So, You Think You Can Dance?’ An Exploratory Study of Performers’ Rights of Classical Ballet Dancers and Bharatanatyam Dancers	en_US.UTF-8
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Abstract:

Dancers lead precarious lives due to their poor pay and shorter career-spans. Most dancers struggle to support themselves financially once their dance career ends. The original objective behind adopting the international performers' rights regime was to address the livelihood concerns of performers and their overall well-being. Despite this, copyright scholars have never analysed the role of a performers' rights regime in the everyday lives of dancers. This thesis investigates the lived experience of dancers in Australia and India with copyright law and contracts. It uncovers the link between the performers' rights regime and the legal and economic status of dancers. In doing so, it supplements the existing doctrinal research on performers’ rights by providing empirical evidence on the legal concerns of dancers in relation to their dance performances, whether a performers' rights regime could mitigate those concerns, and the impact of performers' right of remuneration on their economic status. It also reviews the existing theories and concepts of copyright law and whether they could be adapted to understand the rights of dancers with respect to their dance performances. Lastly, it proposes copyright, non-copyright, and general policy recommendations to improve the financial status of dancers.

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