Adventures (Mostly Excellent) in the Land of Copyright Registration
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The scripts were piling up. There were roughly a dozen that I had written for over the past decade. Some were the result of commissions, and some had been done on spec. Some were full-length plays, some were plays with songs, and still others were only ten minutes in length. And all of them needed the legal protection that a text for the stage can only be granted by having a valid copyright registration.

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Douglas Post
Douglas Post

has two new plays opening this season – By My Will with the Atlanta Shakespeare Company at the Shakespeare Tavern in Atlanta and Shaw vs. Tunney with Grippo Stage Company at Theater Wit in Chicago. His one-man thriller Bloodshot was produced earlier this season at the Hudson Village Theatre outside Montreal. He serves on the Copyright Advocacy Committee, the Education Committee and the Political Engagement Committee.