This week, a panel of US appeals court judges renewed the legal battle over fortnite backwards dance moves The dismissal of a lawsuit presented last year by professional choreographer Kyle Hanagami against Epic Games. Billboard pointed out the opinion submitted on November 1 (PDF), where U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard Paez wrote that even if the individual elements of a dance cannot be copyrighted, the arrangement can.
He lower court said Choreographic works are made up of poses that cannot be protected on their own.
He found that the dance choreography steps and poses used by the characters of fortnite They were not “substantially similar, apart from the four identical poses” because they did not “share any creative elements”…
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