Copyright and Choreography: Copyright Issues Affecting Dance Companies, Choreographers, and Dancers

Meredith Rainey, Philadelphia-based choreographer and former Pennsylvania Ballet Soloist, has been commissioned to create works for the Pennsylvania Ballet, Incolballet (Ballet Clásico Nacional de Colombia), the Brandywine Ballet, Ballet X, the Delaware Ballet, Hubbard Street 2, and Phrenic New Ballet. His work has been performed throughout North and South America and Europe, including at the Miami International Ballet Festival, the International Ballet Festival of Ecuador, the First and Second International Ballet Festival of Calí, (Colombia) and in Madrid, Spain. He has won numerous awards, including the 1995 & 2002 PA Council on the Arts Fellowship Grant for Choreography, 2001 Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Artist as Catalyst Grant, 2002 Independence Foundation Fellowship in the Arts, and the 2010 Dance Advance Grant, and he was a finalist for the 2003 Pew Fellowship in the Arts. In 2011, he won The Joyce Theater Foundation’s the A.W.A.R.D. Show! Philadelphia.

Elena M. Paul, Esq., is the Director of Legal & Business Affairs at the Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation who
furthers the pioneering vision of Alvin Ailey through the activities of
two dance companies, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Ailey II,
The Ailey School, Ailey Arts In Education & Community Programs and
the activities of The Ailey Extension. In addition to her role as
General Counsel and Secretary, she manages Ailey’s Human Resources
Department. Prior to joining Ailey, Ms. Paul was the Executive Director
of Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, Executive Director of Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts, University Counsel in the the University of Maryland, College Park Office of the President, and an attorney at two major national law firms, where she practiced corporate and real estate law. Ms. Paul received her BA in Economics from Davidson College, phi beta kappa,
and her JD from Harvard Law School. Ms. Paul serves as an Adjunct
Professor in the Producing and Documentary Programs at the New York Film
Academy and taught at the Fordham Law School Fashion Law Institute,
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Pratt Institute of Art & Design and Brooklyn Law School.