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Madness Tribute Copyright Dispute

August 27, 2003 - 4:07pm — Aaron

Yet another example from the topsy-turvy world of copyright, where emulating your pop culture heros gets you slapped with a law suit.

"A Madness tribute band has been told to pay £500 for copying the original group's famous walk during concerts.

On top of that, Ultimate Madness also faces having to pay a further £100 any time it uses the 20-second dance in future performances.""

Here's the full story.
[via Peter]

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August 27, 2003 - 4:50pm — Anonymous Patron (not verified)

copyright?

In the US, you can't copyright a dance move, only choreography. It needs to be fixed in a form. And then it's only protecting that form.Here they'd have to go trademark, or look-n-feel.I'm betting it's something similiar there, and they're going to rely on the fact that that band can't afford to defend themselves.-- Ender, Duke_of_URL

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August 27, 2003 - 6:05pm — Brian

Damn!

Guess I'll have to stop doing the Chuck Berry duck walk whenever I take a patron to the stacks.
("Walk this way." "If I could walk that way, I wouldn't need to see the ABMS Directory.")

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August 27, 2003 - 8:13pm — jen

Elvis has left the building?

I wonder now if other cover bands will be sued - I've seen advertisements for cover bands of The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Dave Matthews Band, etc. And what about all those Elvis impersonators?

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