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Good news for dancers and copyfighters: the creator of the Electric Slide has just taken a step back and agreed to allow non-commercial use of the disco-era dance which, as Wikipedia helpfully explains, “is still done frequently at social occasions to virtually any music.” Ric Silver, the man behind the moves, had been sending legal notices to people who posted videos of the dance, asserting his copyright over it. Now, he’s going to license the dance through Creative Commons (which apparently includes letting Spiderman and a Transformer do it, as they do in this image from his website). There’s no word, however, on the Funky Chicken patent dispute.
See Mother Jones‘ roundup of intellectual property run amok.
