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One of the reasons Fortnite's success was evoked, dances became their embarrbadment . Since the release of the game in the second half of 2017, we already had the dance "basic", based on the series "Scrubs". And over time, several new dances have been added and among them, many of them are not original, which has resulted in copyright lawsuits against Epic Games.
THE CARLTON DANCE
TO " The Default Dance " was no more than an event when more and more dancinhas entered in February 2018. However, a series of complaints began. to appear on the Internet, launched by the actor Alfonso Ribeiro .
The actor not only complained directly to Epic Games but also brought an action on the grounds that he should receive a percentage. profits that Fortnite received for charging the players to have the dance. In the process, he also quotes Take Two Interactive, who put the dance in the game NBA 2K with the name "So Fresh ."
Up to now, the process has not worked. but according to the site Forbes the action should not succeed, the actor not having the right to author the dance, even if he is the forerunner .
The denunciations increased exponentially after the Carlton actor announced that he would sue . Epic Games
]. A few weeks later, we would also have heard of Russell Horning Kid Kid, who would sue the company for using their dance for trading in the game. In 2018, the boy was participating at PRO-AM at the E3, a double tournament bringing together 50 professional players playing with 50 media celebrities. And the first rule of a lawsuit is "does not generate evidence against yourself" and that's something that Russell did that day. During an interview for TMZ the boy was asked if he would receive anything from Epic for the dance and what he was thinking about it. He replied promptly with: "The idea is not that, I just feel honored to have it in the game."
2 MILLY and the MILLY ROCK
The rapper 2 Milly accompanied by Alfonso Ribero in his journey to pursue Epic Games in court . At the start of the season 5's fight pbad, the players came across a dance named " Swipe It ", which had been taken from one of the clips of rapper 2 Milly.
The process does not come out much, claiming that Epic pays nothing to the rapper and that it is a copyright, which shows that the trade would be illegal by the third party. In a press release 2 Milly stated: "They never asked me for permission." The company did not comment on the subject.
BOOGIE DOWN
The most recent complaint is somewhat intriguing. In April 2018, Fortnite opened a contest on twitter where anyone performing the best dance would virtually win it for Fortnite, the contest called Boogie Down . And one of those twitters stood out in a sea of hashtags, the " boy in the orange shirt ", as it was now called, was already prayed by the streamers and by any the community to be the big winner.
He did not win. But in the Season 5 bout, all players who reached a certain level earned " Orange Justice ", which was nothing short of the dance that they had all requested. And the name of the dance already says that all "Orange Justice" would be that they knew how much the community was asking for the dance.
But as of today (16) Orange has filed a lawsuit against Fortnite, but with different motives from the others. The mother, Rachel McCumbers brought an action for damages for "unspecified damages".
In addition, the mother reports that the boy was the victim of "extreme cyber-harbadment".
THE FIRST DANCE
Fortnite's " Default Dance " is also being processed. The first dance released for free in the game is not original, as many people think. He was taken from the series " Scrubs ". Donald Faison, the actor who created the dance, had already spoken on Twitter before all this repercussion:
Dear strong … I'm flattered? Dearest Fortnite … Would I be flattered? I do not know what to say. But a part of me thinks I should talk to a lawyer … "
Later, at Vulture Festival Scrubs actors gathered to talk about the series and asked if you could do the stage dance, known as" Poison Dance ", the actor replied:" If you want to see, you can play "Fortnite" because they stole that m **** "Even with so many complaints against Fortnite we have not yet achieved any results because it is costly to do this kind of process and waste time