Matthew Windman covers legal issues in theater by discussing the career and work of the legendary Broadway songwriter Stephen Sondheim. This webinar explores intellectual property and contract law principles by looking back on incidents from throughout Sondheim’s career, such as negotiating billing and royalties with Leonard Bernstein, turning dialogue written by his collaborators into lyrics, using someone else’s idea as the basis for an unconventional musical, obtaining underlying rights from other famous writers, taking part in backers’ auditions, and filing a lawsuit against the original producer of the last new musical produced during his lifetime.
5.22.2023