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My youngest son plays this. It’s disgustingly commercial and seems to be setup to vacuum children’s money after they convince them they need some item or skin. Also, it’s not just the dances. Just about everything in the game looks like it was ripped off from somewhere else.
Just about everything in the game looks like it was ripped off from somewhere else.
Because it is, from the majority of characters in it to the emotes to the UI to the art style to even the very genre of the game itself. It is the “chinese bootleg” your favorite monster-chugging bane of drywall likes to pearl-clutch about, but of everything at all at once. It’s like someone saw Ready Player One and said “yeah, that’s a good idea!”
This is the best summary I could come up with:
This week, a panel of US appeals court judges has renewed the legal battle over Fortnite dance moves by reversing the dismissal of a lawsuit filed last year by professional choreographer Kyle Hanagami against Epic Games.
Billboard pointed out the opinion filed on November 1st (PDF), where US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard Paez wrote that even if individual elements of a dance can’t be copyrighted, the arrangement can.
The lower court said choreographic works are made up of poses that aren’t protectable alone.
In response to an inquiry from The Verge, Hanagami’s lead attorney David Hect said “The Court’s holding is extremely impactful for the rights of choreographers, and other creatives, in the age of short form digital media,” and that his client looks forward to litigating his claims against Epic.
Epic has already fought multiple lawsuits over Fortnite’s “emote” feature, which lets players trigger animations that emulate popular dance moves.
Several other cases were put on hold in 2019, including one from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air star Alfonso Ribeiro.
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