2. Adjective. In entertainment, not a drama; light entertainment. ¹
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Definition of Nondramatic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nondramatic
Literary usage of Nondramatic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ruling Case Law as Developed and Established by the Decisions and by William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich (1915)
"The specific right is also given to dramatize a nondramatic work, or convert a
drama into a nondramatic work. In the former statute the words "dramatic ..."
2. Arguments Before the Committees on Patents of the Senate and House of by United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Patents (1906)
"... distribution, or circulation, any dramatization of a nondramatic work copyrighted
under this Act. or any conversion into nondramatic form of a dramatic ..."
3. Copyright Law of the U. S. by DIANE Publishing Company (1994)
"(1) Owners of copyright in nondramatic literary works and public ... with respect
to the use of nondramatic literary works by such broadcast stations. ..."
4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1908)
"... to dramatize it if it be a nondramatic work, to convert it into a novel or
other nondramatic work if it be a drama, to arrange or adapt it if it be a ..."
5. The American Year Book by Simon Newton Dexter North, Francis Graham Wickware, Albert Bushnell Hart (1911)
"... and shall include the sole right (a) m the case of a dramatic work to convert
it into a novel or nondramatic work; (b) in the case of a novel or other ..."
6. Laws of Business for All the States and Territories of the Union and the by Theophilus Parsons (1909)
"... if it be a literary work; to dramatize it if it be a nondramatic work; to
convert it into a novel or other nondramatic work if it be a drama; ..."
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