Scènes à faire

A scène à faire (French for "scene to be made" or "scene that must be done"; plural: scènes à faire; both pronounced [sɛn a fɛʁ]) is a scene in a work of fiction which is almost obligatory for a work in that genre.

In the United States, it also refers to a principle in copyright law in which certain elements of a creative work are held to be not protected when they are mandated by or customary to the genre, a principle which has been expanded to cover other fields such as software development.