Could Beyoncé Get in Trouble for Stealing Dance Moves?

Yes, but it depends on what you mean by dance. A whole work of set choreography?for example, Balanchine?s Swan Lake?is covered under intellectual copyright law and can certainly be stolen, but only if it meets three legal requirements: First, it must represent ?the composition and arrangement of dance movements and patterns usually intended to be accompanied by music?; second, it must be provably original (and not just a performance of someone else?s work); and third, it must exist in a fixed and tangible form. To satisfy this last requirement, dances are usually recorded on film or translated into some form of written notation. If a dance work passes these tests, then its ownership can be claimed by the original choreographer, the company that performed it, the organization that commissioned it, or anyone else who has an appropriate claim given the nature of its creation.

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