How we share our plays

(alternate explanation)

If you want to use scripts or other material from FreePlays.org, you may charge money for some things, and not for others. The is exactly one important distinction between what we allow you to charge money for, and what we require that you offer for free. If you understand the distinction then it's easy to understand the license agreement used by FreePlays.org.

**Process versus Product**
Process	Product
Acts	Records, Recordings
Actions	Works
Creative Activity	Publications
An event, simultaneously experienced and co-created in one physical place by both artist/performer, audience, and/or others.	A record or transmission of that event.
Performance	Any kind of record or product of that performance.
Writing, reading aloud, dancing, performing, creating, acting, playing, teaching, learning, rehearsing, reader's theatre, live theatre, singing.	Scripts, "as-performed" scripts, broadcasts, video recordings, transmissions, photographs, shorthand transcriptions, tape recordings, wire recordings, vinyl records, wi-fi transmissions, DVDs.
Editing, modifying, splitting parts, combining parts, recasting or removing parts, shortening, lengthening, broadening, rephrasing, updating, changing endings, adding staging, lighting, or sound directions	Versions, modifications.

Look at any of the items in the left-hand side of the above table. They are activities, events; intangible, ephemeral. When using any works from FreePlays.org, you may charge money for any of these "left-side" activities, with no money/royalty due to FreePlays.org, contributing authors, or anyone else. Now look at any of the items on the table's right side. If you use works from FreePlays.org, you must make any and all of these "right-side" products available for free. The original authors made their works available to you for free. If you use these works, we consider it only fair, and we require, that you make your own products based on these works available for free also.

All works on this site are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License. In short:

You are free to print, copy, read, use, distribute, modify, and perform any and all of these works without royalty.
If you distribute these works in any form (including recordings of performances), with or without modification, you must grant these same royalty-free rights.

For details, see Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License either here or here

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