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Chance the Rapper: Fortnite Dance Emotes money should be shared with artists
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For those people saying he's right? Why? You can't copyright a dance move, nor can you prove who created it. Secondly, fortnite also pay royalties to every other shooter/battle royal game out there as well?
Choreography copyright is a new thing. And rarely is it upheld because it's nearly impossible to prove its original.
Choreography copyright is a new thing. And rarely is it upheld because it's nearly impossible to prove its original.
The black community in America has had so much stolen from it over there past few hundred years.
This is embarassing.
They already make a lot of money and now they want to copyright dance moves? Like, really?
They already make a lot of money and now they want to copyright dance moves? Like, really?
Normally i would agree but its fucking dances and it would be hard to say who should get that money.
He's not. You can't copyright a dance move. End of the line.
haha
While we're at it, let's start paying the originators of memes included in these games as well.
You can copyright choreography or dance routines. The backpack kid still flossing was a dance routine in a katy perry performance. He's not just doing a random movement.
Choreography. The shoot dance is part of a music vieo
they?
also, lets be real i probably make more than blocboy jb at this point
Better give Courtney Cox the rights then. Alfonso said he got it from her and some Bruce Springsteen video, lol.
They could at the least give recognition to the artist they still the shit from; they stay stealing shit from black culture with no fucks given
Not going to lie, if that actually found some legal basis (because that's actually how the copyright industry works), that would be an excellent way to remove the dances from the game.
Nah, there's nothing right or just with having rich people being able to copyright body movements.
Choreography and dance routines are very likely different to specific dance moves (what Fortnite uses) in the eyes of the law. If I'm wrong and they're not different then there must have been a massive series of fuckups for both Epic/Tencent's lawyers and the copyright holders themselves to not notice that including them in this massive phenomenon of a game was a bad idea/a reason to sue.
Why are we pretending like every dance in Fortnite was invented by a black person?
He did. I used to do the dance from the Springsteen video as a kid (don't judge). Old man used to think it was funny as hell.
User warned: arguing in bad faith
https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ52.pdf
if only this was about a pokemon-like game, so many anime avatars would be defending creators
Okay then, they change one move slightly. Have him pop his left wrist instead of his right. Boom. Done.
Nah copyrighting bodily movements is stupid.
There should also be no copyright on words spoken in a certain order, or sounds made in a certain order.
I will guarantee if a movie, or show, or game even hinted at using the word "Fortnite" in it's title, Epic would be all over it like a fly to shit. Fuck me they'd still probably go at it if it was the dictionary term "fortnight". Yet these motherfuckers will rip dances and outright steal character designs.
There should also be no copyright on words spoken in a certain order, or sounds made in a certain order.
I will guarantee if a movie, or show, or game even hinted at using the word "Fortnite" in it's title, Epic would be all over it like a fly to shit. Fuck me they'd still probably go at it if it was the dictionary term "fortnight". Yet these motherfuckers will rip dances and outright steal character designs.
But they got rich from creating the things, unless Chance is a trustfund baby and I didn't know. How about this donate 25% from the sale of them to a program that gets PoC and women into STEM and programming. They don't have to, but would be nice
As you've quoted me, I'll reply: if you defend this, defend on a basis that makes sense, like the law or cultural appropriation. Don't defend this because "Fortnite makes a lot of money", because who's to say, like this case, a musician couldn't ask the same from a small, struggling developer? Would people agree with said musician, or would they defend the developer?
Give me a fucking break. You make sales off of everything fucking else you make. What, now you want sales over the people MOVE!?
These people deluded.
These people deluded.
Nah a lot of times it's soundcloud rappers who do them in videos and then kids start doing them
Reply fishing on Era has gotten out of hand. You could have actually engaged that poster or their point but instead you quoted them with token text response solely to highlight the part of the post you disagreed with for everyone else. If you were gonna be that lazy, you might as well have just typed 'yuh-ikes' and been done with it like everyone does these days
Do you actually think this pertains to a small dance like the ones in Fortnite?
Dances that last 2-3 seconds?
No.
This is for actual dances, shows, and full on acts.
Not something like dabbing lmfao
P.S. I'm copyrighting the Hootenanny
With hou mich it's used everywhere, I wish he got more from making that popular. Carlton dance is life.
As I post this the song Carlton danced to where he moves his hips at the sound, then acts like he's riding a horse when the voices say "jump on it, jump on it" just played on a radio advertisement
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So Epic should pay royalties to the creator? So the dance choreographer than? I wonder how people will react when they find out that their favorite artist didn't actually create their dance moves.
What about dances from World of Warcraft, Destiny, etc. Just because Fortnite is big now and has dance moves and is known means it's time to copyright? It's a larger discussion but I don't think any sort of money or license should be involved unless they also include the music with the dance.
