“With influencers and digital talent earning top dollar to do dances or create content that has already been created, it’s important that the history of that dance is considered as a factor. For me, social media has taken advantage of choreographers in the sense that we have to fight for our rights, our own creativity, and our own work while it is being recreated and imitated at a rate that we often can’t keep up with. We are workers and this is our form of work, and sadly, I often feel that that notion is overlooked in our field. On social media, people think they can take our work, travel with it, copy it, attach and earn a larger dollar from it, and that’s not fair or right. Just as music has to be cleared and paid before use, it should be the same for choreography, right?” Rather than using social media to take from others, we need to look at it as a form of giving forward and inspiring others - by moving the needle of creativity further and not just copying the same trends and dances over and over again, because each time that is done, the original artist behind that dance move is losing sight of their ownership.Ī page of the Labanotation score for 'Single Ladies.' Courtesy of Lynne WeberĪs of July 2020, Knight’s Single Ladies score became one of the first non-ballet choreography to be approved for copyright. In a recent Billboard cover story, Robert Kasunic, the U.S. LEARN BEYONCE SINGLE LADIES DANCE STEPS REGISTRATIONĬopyright Office’s associate register of copyright and director of registration policy and practice. explained the current copyright laws for creators. “Copyright provides a creator a level of presumptive validity, and also paternity: ‘This is mine,” explains Kasunic. “Under federal law, that ownership exists from the moment a creative work is “fixed” - for choreography, preserved in a form of writing like Labanotation or on video - and under the Copyright Act of 1909, choreographers have had the option to do just that.

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