Legal Measure for the Protection on Choreographer Right
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At present, the entertainment business is very popular. Such businesses consist of many categories, such as theater performances, movies, singing, stage plays and dancing. Dancing includes choreography as well as choreographers. Choreographer is seen as a teacher or a producer, in which he/she is the creator of the work and that work must be protected by copyright. From the law study in Thailand, it was found that choreography has not been protected by copyright as well as choreographer's rights has not been covered by copyright laws. In order to study such problems, it is necessary to study and analyze choreographer's rights protection that are currently protected by copyright laws in Thailand by comparing with the international copyright laws and the foreign copyright laws. The study was a qualitative research model. Data were analyzed using document and method comparative analysis of textbooks, academic articles, research reports, theses, journals and research from the website. It concluded that Thailand does not provide protection for the choreographer's rights. It should perhaps adopt foreign laws that would provide protection of the choreography copyright by (1) should define additional definitions in the Copyright Act of 2537 that would extend to all choreography movements, and (2) choreography that has already been protected must not be related to social dancing such as general public dancing. In addition, dance movements must be creative and the level of protection must be protected in accordance to the minimum standards of copyright law.
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