Free expression is democracy.
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Because words matter.
Courtnee Carter performing for 2023’s Banned Together Podcast / Photo by Douglas Gorenstein
A resource in defense of the First Amendment for theatre writers.
The Dramatists Guild created the Dramatists Legal Defense Fund (DLDF) to advocate, educate, and provide aid to indigent writers and artists who cannot defend themselves. This aid and advocacy may take the form of letters, articles, and lectures in public fora, intervention in litigation through amicus briefs and expert testimony, or finding affordable representation for those caught up in these disputes.
Advocating for the theatre against censorship.
The Dramatists Legal Defense Fund advocates not only for writers, but for theaters and other theater artists (as well as audiences, schools, students, and the culture at large), all of whom are confronting censorship and other related issues of public import, including the diminishment of the public domain. And the DLDF educates…not only about the importance to our society of free expression, rational copyright regulation and an ever-expanding public domain, but about the industry standards that have evolved over the past hundred years to protect the development and production of dramatic works in America, in order to bring to theaters and theater audiences a fuller understanding of the theater business and the playwright’s vital role in it.
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