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Rapper considers legal action against Epic Games for using his dance moves in Fortnite

November 18, 2018 by eurogamer Leave a Comment

Rapper 2 Milly is considering legal action against Epic Games for using his signature dance move, The Milly Rock, in Fortnite, although you might know it better as Season 5 premium emote, “Swipe It”. “Everybody was just like, ‘Yo, your dance is in the game,'” 2 Milly told CBS News. “They actually sell that particular move. It’s for purchase. That’s when I really was like … oh nah, this can’t go on too long.” For several months now, the artists behind some of the moves have been calling on Fortnite developer Epic to compensate them, or at least “put the actual rap songs behind the dances that make so much money as Emotes”. However, as business and entertainment lawyer Merlyne Jean-Louis notes in the CBS story, there’s no case law setting a precedent for copyrighting choreographic works and the US Copyright Office currently cannot accept copyright patents for individual dance moves due to creative choreographic expression. “There’s a lot of case lawsuits surrounding the copyright of music. Lyrics. Sounds. There’s a full body of case law related to that. But regarding choreographic works, that does not exist,” they said. The more ethical dilemma, then, lies in whether or not the developer should compensate the creators of the moves, or – as Chance the Rapper suggests in the tweet above – accompany the emotes with the tracks that made them famous and share the sale profits with the artists. “I don’t even want to bash them for all the millions,” 2… [Read full story]




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