p2pnet.net OT news:- Ric Silver is extremely jealous, not to say protective, of a line dance he says he came up with in 1976.

Called the Electric Slide, it was created for the opening of Vamps Disco in New York, he states.

That’s him on the right going through the motions with a group of would-be sliders.

Years later a documentary maker included a few steps from the Electric Slide in a video he posted on YouTube.

“So Silver sued him for copyright infringement with the entertainment cartel’s DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) as the weapon of choice,” p2pnet posted in a story on the lawsuit.

Then the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) got in on the act on behalf of Kyle Machulis, the man behind the GooTube video.

Now Silver has climbed down from his DMCA attack, calling off his online video takedown campaign and promising to stop threatening people who use the line dance for non-commercial purposes.

Instead, he’s making the dance available under a Creative Commons license, says the EFF, adding:

Under the terms of the settlement, Silver will license the Electric Slide under a Creative Commons license – allowing the performance, display, reproduction or distribution of any recorded performance of the dance in any medium for non-commercial purposes. Silver has agreed to post these terms on any of his current or future websites that mention the Electric Slide so that users are aware of the Creative Commons license.

In the top left, the Electric Slide web site includes a small animated .gif a group of dancers, a couple of whom looked suspiciously like Spidey and another comic book superhero. We wonder if any of the figures are copyrighted and if so, if Silver got permission to use them?

Slashdot it!

Also See:
p2pnet – EFF does the Electric Slide, March 2, 2007
EFF – ‘Electric Slide’ Creator Calls Off Online Takedown Campaign, May 22, 2007

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