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pokoko on 18 December 2018
d21lewis said:

It was funny when he did it on the show but even then it seemed like it was funny because he was referencing an uptight, well to do, stereotype. Like "Black guys do it like this but white guys, they do it like THIS!" type of humor. I'm pretty sure he got the dance from some place else. When this is discounted, I hope he isn't smacked with a countersuit or court costs.

And again, that's IF y can somehow copyright a motion that the human body does.

It's funny that you should say that.

“It was never even intended to be funny; it was just that he was dancing,” Ribeiro said.

“The dance is ultimately Courteney Cox in the Bruce Springsteen video ‘Dancing in the Dark;’ that’s the basis. Or in Eddie Murphy’s ‘Delirious’ video, The White Man Dance as he called it. And I said, ‘That is the corniest dance on the planet that I know of, so why don’t I do that?’”

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/alfonso-ribeiro-reveals-the-origin-of-the-carlton-dance-from-fresh-prince-10465625.html



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CuCabeludo on 18 December 2018

i think this is bs. had he copyrighted/registered the dance?



flashfire926 on 18 December 2018

Fuck this shit. Hope this dumbass loses,.

Copyrighting body movements is some of the biggest bullshit Ive ever heard. I fear for the precendent set if he comes out victorious.



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Mr Puggsly on 18 December 2018

For the record people, the wrestler DDP sued Jay-Z for doing his "Diamond Cutter" gesture. DDP actually won that case but I believe he also owns his character.

This is a bit different though. Who actually owns that dance if anybody? NBC or Alfonso?

There probably is some validity to stealing dances. I mean Fortnite would probably run into legal problems if they were stealing the latest dances. But this dance is old, its been used many times outside of Fresh Prince, even recently Forza Horizon 4 used it. Basically, there has been no effort to protect the dance so it feels like a cash grab because the most popular game is using it.



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V-r0cK on 18 December 2018

All I know is that when the dust settles, everybody's going to start copy-writing dance moves now and new laws will be made for them.



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Mnementh on 18 December 2018
CuCabeludo said:

i think this is bs. had he copyrighted/registered the dance?

There is no need to register for copyright in countries abiding the Berne Convention, which are most.



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Baddman on 18 December 2018

this isn't the first and won't be the last law suite fortnite gets about dance moves in the game they should honestly just give the credit to the people instead of renaming known dance moves and selling them.



alejollorente10 on 18 December 2018

Good. Make them pay, alfonso!



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d21lewis on 18 December 2018
pokoko said:
d21lewis said:

It was funny when he did it on the show but even then it seemed like it was funny because he was referencing an uptight, well to do, stereotype. Like "Black guys do it like this but white guys, they do it like THIS!" type of humor. I'm pretty sure he got the dance from some place else. When this is discounted, I hope he isn't smacked with a countersuit or court costs.

And again, that's IF y can somehow copyright a motion that the human body does.

It's funny that you should say that.

“It was never even intended to be funny; it was just that he was dancing,” Ribeiro said.

“The dance is ultimately Courteney Cox in the Bruce Springsteen video ‘Dancing in the Dark;’ that’s the basis. Or in Eddie Murphy’s ‘Delirious’ video, The White Man Dance as he called it. And I said, ‘That is the corniest dance on the planet that I know of, so why don’t I do that?’”

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/alfonso-ribeiro-reveals-the-origin-of-the-carlton-dance-from-fresh-prince-10465625.html

😲

Well, that's that. 

 

(Also, autocorrect changed "discovered" to "discounted" in my previous post. I didn't catch it.)



NobleTeam360 on 18 December 2018

I believe a couple of other people are suing Epic for dances in the game as well.