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New York Times

September 29, 2004 Wednesday

Graham Legacy, on the Stage Again

by Felicia Lee

Lee discusses what she calls “the question of artistic legacy and ownership” in her discussion of the battle over the rights to Martha Graham’s dances. Though in her will the famed choreographer left the rights to her dances to her heir, Donald Protas, two court decisions have ruled that those rights were not hers to give but rather belong to the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance and the Martha Graham School. The battle between Protas and these institutions further illuminates the tricky boundaries of intellectual property in the performing arts.