Grand Rights – Composing for Dance, Theatre, and Music TheatreGrand Rights Agreement • July 7th, 2023
A “grand right” is a dramatic performing right which can encompass several copyrights, i.e. in the libretto, the music, the choreography, etc., and no one of these copyrights has greater rights than any other. Grand rights cover performances of musical theatre works, operas, operettas, ballets, and renditions of independent musical compositions in a dramatic setting where there is narration, a plot, and/or costumes and scenery. The use of a musical work from one of these productions in a non-dramatic public performance OR as an audiovisual production broadcast on television is not a grand right; it is a small performing right (petit droit) licensed through a performing rights society.
