This is the article I have chosen to improve for our assignment. I may narrow my topic to US Copyright Law in Theatre if the Performing Arts topic seems too broad.

This is a few months old, but it shows how copyright issues can come up years after a work is created. The author of a biography of Fela Kuti sued the producers and creative team of Fela! the musical, even though the production had been shown Off-Broadway and on Broadway for a few years.