We were watching this show on Netflix tonight. Explained – Dance Crazes. It was pretty good but at times was a bit heavy on the black folks did it first theme. Then I realized that things like this are not common knowledge for the majority of people. now days. For me, it’s being told stuff I already know. Kind of annoying but not everyone is me and the average white person needs to be re-educated. This show is a good start.
One thing they kept touching on is copyrighting dance moves. You can’t do it, as the law stands right now. While in theory it would definitely give credit where credit is due. It would create an epic shit ton of legal complications and become a breeding ground of colossal pettiness. The copyright holder would have the power to prevent anyone , anywhere from doing said dance move. While this would definitely keep Fortnite from profiting off their creation, it would put a huge cramp in the freeform creativity that dancing is. Imagine people suing all the attendees of Annapolis High School’s Homecoming Dance 2021 because they were all doing whatever TikTok dance is the big thing at the moment. Dance creators definitely need more than just the recognition of their peers now days, things move extremely fast and people will always try to profit off the work of others. That is how runaway capitalisms operates. So what can we do to fix this? My solution is….
Instead of a copyright, we create the creditright. The creator of the dance move, joke, hair style, recipe or many other things I can’t think of right now, would get legal, verified credit as the originator of the thing but it would be part of the public domain except when used commercially. Such as Fortnite or other video games, TV or movies . Anything a recording artist would receive royalties for. This is the basic idea, obviously more research and thought needs to go in this. But I’m just the idea guy, that’s for the engineers to figure out.
We the F%#n' People 