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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 7797619" data-attributes="member: 463">UK law (the 1988 Copyright Designs & Patents Act) doesn't really define 'dramatic work' other than that it includes works of dance or mime, and works capable of being performed before a live audience. If it were true that Critical Role were a 'fake', a (semi) scripted performance, then it could be a Dramatic Work under UK law. But a sports match is not a copyright work under UK law and I don't think a (real) RPG session would be considered one, either.(But this is actually a really complicated issue; in the Norowzian v Arks case the court held that a film was a dramatic work even though films are a separate category under the CDPA, because they wanted to give films the full protection due to 'Primary' works. This could well apply to RPG Podcasts too, I suspect. Without that they only get the much more limited Broadcast Right.)</blockquote>