The US Copyright office says that the carlton dance can’t be copyrighted.
Not only that, but they refused to copyright the dance that was created by the Fresh prince
of bel aire star alfonso ribero.
This undoubtedly means that the pending lawsuit against fortnite for using the carlton dance
in their game will probably be thrown out.
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The fresh prince of bel aire was one of the most iconic sitcoms of all time.
The carlton dance is one of the most famous dance moves around.
Which is why there are a couple of video game developers who have used the carlton dance
in their games.
Alfonso ribero sued two different companies for copying the carlton dance, a dance he
created while he was playing Carlton Banks on the fresh prince of bel aire.
He sued take two for using the gesture in NBA 2k, and, the more famous case, he sued
fortnite for using his dance as an emote, where players can purchase the dance move
to enable their characters to do the carlton dance.
Take two filed a defense earlier this week, asking the judge to throw out the case.
The lawyers argued that the dance is too basic to be protected by copyright, which only covers
more complex choreography.
They also have a letter from the copyright office that backs up their argument that says,
the letter calls his submission a simple routine made up of three dance steps and refuses registration.
It also said, the fact that a dance or movement may contain more than a trivial amount of
original authorship is irrelevant.
This basically means that even if alfonso riberos dance was unique, it isn’t protected
by copyright.
One of the variations of the carlton dance that ribero submitted for copyright was approved,
but with the case of that one, the copyright office doubted that he owned it.
Apparently he submitted a 2014 performance of the carlton dance from ABC’s Dancing
with the stars, and the copyright office wanted more information about abc or ribero’s dance
partner Witney carson might hold the rights to the choreography.
The problem with the carlton dance is that ribero created the carlton dance while playing
a fictional character on a tv show that he didn’t create.
For this reason, its confusing to figure out who really owns the dance.
Is it the person who created it, or is it the company who owns or broadcasted the fresh
prince of bel aire.
The fact that the carlton dance was rejected for copyright means that both cases against
Take two and fortnite will be weakened.
If you can’t copyright something in the first place, you cant sue someone for using
your work, and in this case, it seems you cant copyright a dance move.
The backpack kid’s case against fortnite for using the floss in the game could also
be in trouble.
But that particular case is even more questionable because the backpack kid was not the first
person to do the floss and theres youtube videos online of people doing it way before
him.
If you wanna see our previous coverage of the backpack kid suing fortnite, we have talked
about it a little more in depth in the video that’s currently clickable on your screen
right now.
Apparently the backpack kid’s lawyer was able to register a version of the floss to
with the copyright office, but whether or not it’s the version that fortnite used
in the game is another story.
rapper 2 milly is also suing fortnite for using his milly rock move.
What do you guys think, will fortnite win this case?
Let me know down there in the comments.
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