TRU Community Gathering via Zoom, One Word, So Many Meanings: Licensing!

A dependable haven for theater professionals, Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) is in its sixth year of non-stop weekly Community Gatherings, having led over 300 consecutive conversations about aspects of the arts. The series has offered the theater community information, inspiration and unlimited camaraderie since April 17, 2020. TRU hosts these gatherings every Friday at 5pm ET via Zoom, originally presented to explore the creation of art and theater in the time of shutdown, and now to ensure that these crucial conversations continue going forward.

Visit https://truonline.org/events/one-words-so-many-meanings/ to receive this Friday’s Zoom link. These gatherings are a service for the theater community and are offered free for TRU members; non-members may also attend for free, but we ask that non-members help keep us running by buying a $12 ticket, making a donation or joining as a member.

5/29

• One Word, So Many Meanings: Licensing! In

the room: James Rocco, director, choreographer, former producing artistic director of the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, founder of Thirty Saints Productions (Come from Away, Magic Mike, creator of The Broadway Songbook Series) and the newly formed Thirty Saints Music Licensing; C. Michael Perry, composer/lyricist/playwright, director, choreographer, producer and publisher, founder of Encore Performance Publishing, Premiere Theatrical Licensing, Leicester Bay Theatricals, Zion Theatricals. While the monolithic Concord Theatricals has subsumed familiar companies like Samuel French and Tams-Witmark, other smaller companies continue to offer services and support to writers. We'll talk about different aspects of licensing, and how it differs from publishing: legal rights, collecting royalties and granting permission for theaters to perform a show in a variety of markets, and how a producer can benefit. Plus other sides of licensing: obtaining the rights to music whether creating a jukebox musical from existing songs or just quoting a song snippet, and a brief look at the need to license images and other intellectual property. Visit https://truonline.org/events/one-words-so-many-meanings/ to register and receive the link.