Electric Slide on Slippery Slope

[Rich Tate]

We’ve have seen a good many requests in recent weeks from copyright holders requesting their content be removed from sites like YouTube and this story is no exception. However, would you believe the creator of the Electric Slide is even involved?

The inventor of the "Electric Slide," an iconic dance created in 1976, is fighting back against what he believes are copyright violations and, more importantly, examples of bad dancing.

 

[The King of Pants]

This crap has got to stop, now we've copyrighted a dance move? And their actualy complying with this request?

 

[BladeVenom]

So does doing the Electric Slide badly protect you from charges of copyright violation? To Schultz, an incorrect version of the dance may still be covered under copyright law as a derivative of the original,

Of course the Electric Slide is a derivative of other dances, so if copyright law actually made any sense or was applied in any logical manner the Electric Slide couldn't be copyrighted.

 

[ro4ddogg]

i got dibs on the backspin!

 

[sabrewolf732]

Is this guy joking..

 

[Nemesis999]

He's in for a fight. Tauren Females in WoW do the electric slide.

 

[Bob_Gates]

I think extraterrestrials are pissing in the our gene pool.

 

[Bob_Gates]

Minus "the". More proof, it's a challenge to even use proper grammar now.

 

[Fooshnik]

He's only sending nastygrams to people doing the dance "wrong".

If they're doing it "wrong", how do you know they're not just doing a different dance? Like the Electric Glide.

I keep saying "this is the stupidest thing I've ever heard" like everyday now. WTF