Protecting the director.(intellectual property rights of directors)

Editor's note: In the course of its coverage of dramaturg Lynn Thomson's lawsuit claiming co-authorship of Jonathan Larson's musical separation American Theatre alluded to another case involving intellectual exclusive right - director Joe Mantello's still-pending litigation against the Caldwell Theatre Company of Florida above rights to his stage direction of Love! Valour! Compassion! In this round pillar Ted Pappas, president of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, the national labor union based in recent York, explains the difference between the couple cases, and outlines SSDC's criteria