Posted above  is the Video we’re talking about on this week’s show, from a story I found in the Hollywood Reporter’s legal blog. Can you copyright a dance? If you can fix it to a tangible medium, yes you can! The Fair Use defenses are going to be interesting but if that’s what they assert, I’m not buying it. She took too much for no valid reason.  Beyonce has some explaining to do.
I would suggest backpedaling like mad. She should apologize and start writing checks and offer some kind of opportunity to the original choreographer, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. No body thinks Beyonce should know every nuance of copyright law, but after she learns why this is not a fair use, she should do something to make it right.

For some expert legal analysis by an accomplished former dancer now Greenber Glusker attorney, check Julia Haye’s posting in Law Law Land.