Dance inventor sues under DMCA

Follow my steps or not at all

By Nick Farrell

Mon Feb 05 2007, 07:27

THE INVENTOR of a wedding dance called the "electric slide" is so miffed that ordinary people are depicted as doing his number incorrectly online he is planning to sue them under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Richard Silver, who filed a copyright for the Electric Slide in 2004, has been sending out takedown notices to website owners who show videos of people doing the dance badly.

According to News.com, Silver created the dance in 1976 and he is filing claiming copyright violations and, more examples of bad dancing.

He is also miffed that DeGeneres Show showed actress Teri Hatcher and other dancers performing the wedding shuffle.

Silver has shown himself doing the Electric Slide on YouTube and any videos of drunken wedding guests doing it wrong will be removed, he says.

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