We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. Emotes have become a big business in the game industry. Now, the process behind how those emotes are created and whether they can actually violate the copyright of a work of art is coming under scrutiny. The biggest question is whether a dance move can be copyrighted at all — a legal matter that has never been fully answered. The first case comes from a rapper called 2 Milly, whose real name is Terrance Ferguson. Ferguson began criticizing Epic for not asking his permission or providing him any compensation.

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We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. Sometimes the emotes were inspired by dances on old television shows, like the default dance inspired by Scrubs actor Donald Faison. But quite often these dances were invented by black creators and later went viral on social media. A number of lawsuits were ultimately filed against Epic over claims the company infringed on some variety of either likeness or copyright by using the dances without permission. In this case, however, it appears Epic is openly citing the creator of the dance its newest emote emulates, and it would be quite strange to do so without having first collaborated with Harmon to get it in the game. The developer seems to no longer interested in taking existing dances and turning them into emotes without credit, as was its strategy in the past for some popular dances. The company held a TikTok dance contest earlier this year with transparent licensing terms and has been turning popular streamer dance moves into emotes with the permission and collaboration of the creators themselves. The inclusion of the Renegade emote is also a nice gesture for Harmon, who largely went unrecognized for her dance even as it became one of the most popular moves on TikTok and other social platforms earlier this year. Only after articles by publications like The New York Times and Vox did Harmon get the proper credit for her massively influential contribution to pop culture.
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