No Biting Allowed! Choreographer copyrights dance moves

[get these nets]

Apr 22, 2021
Beyonce and Megan Thee Stallion Choreographer JaQuel Knight Launches Company to Copyright Dance Moves

Jake Green


JaQuel Knight has made history as the first choreographer to copyright his iconic dance moves. In a giant stride to take creative control, Knight has launched Knight Choreography and Music Publishing Inc.

Knight shot to fame after crafting the moves in Beyonce’s “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” video, since then, he has become her go-to, choreograph the artist’s tours and her epic Coachella performances. He has also masterminded the moves behind the Jennifer Lopez-Shakira 2020 Super Bowl Halftime Show, Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP” video.

“Copyrighting movement is about putting the power back in the artist’s hands,” Knight tellsVariety. “We set a historic precedent with our ‘Single Ladies’ copyright achievement, and we are thrilled to be launching Knight Choreography & Music Publishing, Inc. so that the next generation of artists are afforded the same platform, resources and tools to thrive, creatively and financially, in the commercial music industry.”




The company will operate in the same way a music publisher does where it will broker licensing deals and protect IP, except rather than copyright music, Knight Choreography & Music Publishing will oversee the rights to Knights dance moves.

Additionally, the company plans to represent rights for a diverse range of choreographers and creatives across all genres and mediums, acting as their strategic partner in copyright, licensing and beyond as they change the landscape of the protections for choreographers, creatives and artists in the commercial music industry.

Issues of proper credit for dance moves arose recently when TikTok star Addison Rae received backlash for performing on “The Tonight Show” a series of dances popularized on the video platform and didn’t credit the mostly Black creators of the moves. Host Jimmy Fallon addressed the controversy on air the following night, telling viewers, “We recognize that the creators of those dances deserve to have their own spotlight” and inviting the influencers to perform the dances.

Knight will work in partnership with lawyer David Hecht, who helped secure the copyright for “Single Ladies,” and his manager, producer Mary Pelloni.

Last year, Knight served as creative director for Megan Thee Stallion’s virtual concert, but his career spans decades. The Atlanta-born dancer has worked with some of the top names in the business including Britney Spears, Nicole Scherzinger, Rihanna and Tinashe. But it was his work with Beyonce that put him on the map. He went on to win 2 MTV Awards for his work on 2016’s “Formation” which he shared with Chris Grant and Dana Foglia, and “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” (2008) which he shared with Frank Gatson Jr.

 

[ORDER_66]

people can do this now tho online.... this is a waste of fukking time...

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/jim...how-do-dances-created-by-blacks.840153/page-3

i been talking about this for years on this site.

dances are intellectual property

people take them and make routines do choreography and get paid. all in K-Pop videos in video game emotes all over the internet.

brehs are very sleep on getting their money. start licensing them shyts NFT style, anything. Get lawyers who go after people the same way sample lawyers do for featuring dances unapproved in paid media. every-time someone does your dance on tik tok there should be some micro currency exchange i don't give a fukk, a streaming revenue structure. we have to commodify our own creations at this point first.

we supposed to be the home of 6cert 6ft nikkaz and we don't build shyt on here.

you don't own a tweet but a tweet was sold for millions

the argument for a dance being intellectual property is easily made by the fact that choreography is a paid profession. the laws can be adjusted with advocacy in an organized manner. laugh now until someone who isn't Black does all of this first. then it will be a different tune again.

before someone made rap genius nobody would have thought that was an idea that could be monetized as well. they don't own the lyrics but they did.

there was a ton of free lyric sites and nobody would have thought to do it until it was done.

i said it was possible not easy. you say it's impossible. but when a cac does it we will see.

all good shyt funny until it's not

this thread will be upped in due time cheers

 

[MegaManX]

its not easily enforced.

PROVE you invented the dance move?

Impossible. Writing is provable. Dancing is not. You could have seen someone else do it at a local party. The best case scenario is a small class action lawsuit for many original dancers because one existing is freaking impossible.

How do I know? Martial arts are not copyrightable and you literally learn the moves with exact techniques and then teach others those techniques, making money off it.

If they can't protect martial artists, they damn sure can't protect dances.

 

[Piff Perkins]

I can’t wait to see the first court case. Good luck.

 

[Mastamimd]

I can’t wait to see the first court case. Good luck.

It'd be entertaining as fukk for sure

 

[Ahadi]

Nice.

Protection for black artist & black Tik tokers

 

[Astroslik]

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

Cac tiktokers ain't going to like this

 

[Tenchi Ryu]

Alfonso Ribeiro tried this against fornite for them stealing the Carlton dance and it flopped

Very hard to win cases like this

 

[get these nets]

laugh now until someone who isn't Black does all of this first. then it will be a different tune again.

Coli and TLR are hard to read. With the history of how influential Black people are, you'd think that people would see the vision of trying to retain rights for creative efforts. I'd imagine many of the doubters and skeptics are young. Entertainment industry taps and harnesses that young Black creativity, sucks the juice and tosses people away like trash.

But, hey, at least they can run to TLR and makes threads about how the world copies them.

 

[get these nets]

At least Darrin cashed in, twice.

 

[bill riser]

its not easily enforced.

PROVE you invented the dance move?

Impossible. Writing is provable. Dancing is not. You could have seen someone else do it at a local party. The best case scenario is a small class action lawsuit for many original dancers because one existing is freaking impossible.

How do I know? Martial arts are not copyrightable and you literally learn the moves with exact techniques and then teach others those techniques, making money off it.

If they can't protect martial artists, they damn sure can't protect dances.

i dont think this is true. i think in patent and trademark law, whomever patents and trademarks it first owns it.

for example, two people from different parts of the world could have invented a new wireless technology at the same time but who ever legally patents it first owns it.

i believe thats how it works.

someone feel free to correct me if im wrong.

 

[General Mills]

I find it that a guy who worked with Bey is looking to protect his dance material. But Bey is the one who was accused of stealing dance moves from up and coming artists.


Is he doing this to protect his work from Bey

 

[TNOT]

Those dance moves from single ladies come straight from New Orleans. They “borrowed “ the dances from some kids in the city.