The suits are asking to block Epic Games from using the dance moves, an award of the money earned off the moves, unspecified punitive damages, and attorney’s fees.
Matt Acosta, intellectual property attorney at the Dallas office of Jackson Walker however said that the plaintiffs must prove that their dance moves are sufficiently original from other dances to deserve copyright protection.
“The Epic Plaintiffs will likely contend with several hurdles in order to show that their dance moves are copyrightable. As a general matter, any original creative work may be subject to copyright protection,” said Acosta.
“The Copyright Act specifically excludes ‘any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept principle, or discovery.’ In other words, an expression of an idea is copyrightable, but the idea is not,” he added.
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