Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Someone should consider a new hobby

From a WaPo article about responses to take down notices:


Ric Silver, the choreographer of the Electric Slide, says he spent three years contacting 17,000 Web sites about what he says is their "incorrect portrayal" of the famous line dance. Silver also told YouTube to take down a number of videos showing the dance, including one clip of a concert filmed by Kyle Machulis.

Machulis sued Silver for copyright abuse. As part of the settlement, Silver agreed to allow the video to be reposted with a tagline crediting him for the choreography, but he now says he's waiting for paperwork from the Library of Congress that will allow him to open new lawsuits over clips like Machulis's.

"I can't go to every wedding and bar mitzvah in the country, so this is all I can do to make sure people learn it right," Silver said.


I'm just saying 17000 is an awful lot and he doesn't appear to be stopping any time soon.

1 Comments:

At 10:46 PM, Blogger Georgiana said...

Christopher points out that this guy should maybe be inventing fun new dances instead of complaining about the way people do the old one.

 

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