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The Surprising Truth Behind The Iconic Fresh Prince 'Carlton Dance'

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The Fresh Prince of Bel Air may have wrapped in 1996, but many aspects of the show are timeless.

Perhaps the most enduring of all is the iconic 'Carlton Dance', created by actor Alfonso Ribeiro (and recreated by us every Saturday night).

Now, the actor has spoken out about what inspired the quirky moves, and the revelations were certainly surprising.

Ribeiro actually credits Friends star Courtney Cox, Bruce Springsteen and Eddie Murphy for inspiring the dance.

He explained to Variety magazine: "The Carlton Dance was created when it said in the script: 'Carlton dances.' It was never even intended to be funny; it was just that he was dancing.

"The dance is ultimately Courtney Cox in the Bruce Springsteen video 'Dancing in the Dark.' That's the basis. Or in Eddie Murphy's 'Delirious' video, 'The White Man Dance,' as he called it."

And I said, 'That is the corniest dance on the planet that I know of, so why don't I do that?"

For comparison purposes, here are both dances.

Do you see the similarity?

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Fortnite creators sued over game character dance steps / Sudo Null IT News Every month, the creators add various features and features that allow you to keep members of the community while attracting new members.

However, incidents do happen.

So, relatively recently, popular dance moves appeared in the game, which almost immediately became the subject of litigation. The problem is the dance called Milly Rock. The dance was created in 2014 by a real musician for his video. And now the dance moves are used in a game with a base of 200 million people.

The musician, whose name is Terrence Ferguson, seeing all this, went directly to the court. It happened two weeks ago, and almost immediately after Ferguson's lawsuit, complaints came from two more artists. One of them concerns the Carlton Dance, the second - The Floss.

The subject of the litigation is clear, it is only unclear whether it is possible to copy the dance movements? It turned out that yes, at least in the UK. But there are difficulties here. According to a lawyer from Sheridans, a dance can be made “your own,” but only if its creation is documented and the dance itself is filmed. If the dance simply exists, then the rights to it cannot be obtained.

This is convenient for the plaintiffs, as there is video evidence of the existence of the dances they invented, similarly, there is a video comparing the movements of game characters and real dancers performing the same dance.

It is more difficult to determine the right holder. Who owns the rights - the creator, the dancers or the choreographer? How can they prove that they created something new, and did not take advantage of the developments and dance moves that were created earlier? How can they prove that their rights have indeed been violated? These are all difficult questions to be answered by the lawyers involved in the process.

The USA has its own difficulties. Here the choreography is protected by law (1976 Copyright Act). But the law sees a difference in a dance invented by a specific person, which is protected by law, and a "public" dance, which is the property of any citizen. This, for example, flamenco, tango, etc. So no one can copy the waltz, and then demand hundreds of millions of US dollars from the "violators" in court.

In addition, individual dance steps cannot be copyrighted in the USA. Even if a particular dance is protected by law, then individual movements from it can be used freely. Legislators understand that individual steps in different dances can coincide, they are like bricks that make up a building. And if a building can be unique, then a brick is not. The same applies to short combinations of pas.

And this moment is just very important for the game Fortnite, because the characters perform short fragments of the dance, and not completely copy the entire sequence of movements. Epic Games, the creator of the game, is trying to prove that these are just fragments, so the Fortnite developer cannot be accused of copyright infringement.

In addition, as mentioned above, it is difficult to prove the authorship of the dance, since it itself consists of separate steps that can be common, used in many other dances.

Alfonso Ribeiro, creator of Carlton, claims it is his "intellectual property". But this statement is questionable, since many people performed similar pas. Also, Carlton was performed on a TV show for the first time, so there is a problem with determining the copyright holder. Who is it? The creator of the dance, the company that owns the show, or someone else?

By the way, all of the above is not only related to Fortnite. Other games also use dancing. For example, Forza Horizon 4. Moreover, the authors of the latter have already begun to remove sequences of dance movements, despite the fact that so far no one has filed claims against this company.

Judging by everything, the trial will be lengthy, and the outcome of all this is difficult to predict. In many countries - case law, so the decisions made by the judges will be very significant for the future of the gaming industry, and not only it.

The actor is suing Epic Games and accuses the company of copying his dance in Fortnite

Actor Alfonso Ribeiro intends to sue Epic Games and accuses the company that the Fortnite emote called Fresh is a copy of his dance from the TV series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

Actor Alfonso Ribeiro intends to sue Epic Games and accuses the company that the Fortnite emote called Fresh is a copy of his dance from the TV series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. In the television series, Ribeiro played a character named Carlton Banks (Carlton Banks).

“It is widely known that Mr. Ribeiro’s intellectual property has been misappropriated by Epic Games and is being used in the world’s most popular game, Fortnite. Epic has made record profits thanks to downloadable content, including emotes like Fresh. At the same time, Epic did not pay compensation and did not even ask Mr. Ribeiro for permission to use the famous intellectual property, ”the actor’s lawyer said in a conversation with TMZ.

Alfonso Ribeiro is also suing 2K Games because his dancing was also seen in NBA 2K.

Interestingly, there is dance in Destiny, but the actor (yet?) has no complaints against Activision.

This is not the first attempt by show business representatives to get money from Epic Games through the courts for using their dances in Fortnite. In November of this year, rapper 2 Milly sued the Epic Games.

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