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| Commercial Theatre production that, like big-budget Hollywood films, pursue maximum profits by reaffirming the audience's values |
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| A legal guarantee granted by the government to authors, composers, choreographers, inventors, publishers,and corporations that allows them to control and profit from their creative work and intellectual property. |
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| Money contributed to the arts, including the theatre, from companies of all sizes. Compare government funding and patrons. |
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| The money spent each year on the arts by federal, state, and local governments. Compare corporate funding and patrons. |
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| National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) |
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| The federal agency that disburses tax dollars as grants to fund cultural programs |
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| The exaggerated imitations that are done for comic effect or political criticism. |
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| Individual contributors to the arts. Compare corporate funding and government funding. |
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| The legal realm of intellectual property that is not protected by a copyright or patent and belongs to a community at large. |
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| Payment to playwrights or their estates in exchange for staging a copyrighted play. |
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| Writers, such as screen and television writers, who sell their words to production companies rather than retaining a copyright to them. |
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