What the FUCK is this world coming to? This is one of those stories that you just can’t make up:<\/p>\n
‘Electric Slide’ on slippery DMCA slope | CNET News.com<\/a><\/p>\n
The inventor of the “Electric Slide,” an iconic dance created in 1976, is fighting back against what he believes are copyright violations and, more importantly, examples of bad dancing.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Okay, I am all for people being able to copyright their works of intellectual property (for a reasonable amount of time), but this goes too fucking far. Patenting a movement of the human body? 28 years<\/strong> after the fact?!? And then enforcing that patent because someone isn’t doing it quite right<\/em> ?!!?<\/p>\n
I’m sorry, but this is just too much. 28 years is just too long a gap between invention and patent. I could understand a gap of two years or so – plenty of time for you to do market assessments to discover if the cost of filing a patent will be worth the effort. <\/p>\n
But 28? <\/p>\n
Here’s a message for the folks at the Patent Office: you have the perfect opportunity here to show the world that you have a pair and shut this idiocy down. If the law prevents you from doing this, bury this shit in paperwork until it doesn’t.<\/p>\n
Please. I’m beggin’ here.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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