South Korea discussing law on Choreography Copyright issues

Girl groups usually stand with their hands on their waist when it's someone else doing some solo part, will this copyright cover that as well? If yes then they probably have to stand in different styles and angles just to not get copyright strike.

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so soon there won't be any choreos

just standing lol

Standing will also be copyrighted

I imagine they may model it after U.S. law:

Michael Chiappetta, attorney and senior editor in the Intellectual Property & Technology Group at Thomson Reuters Practical Law, explains that you can copyright a dance as long as it's "an original work consisting of the composition and arrangement of a related series of dance movements and patterns organized into a coherent whole."

The United States Copyright Office defines a “fixation” in choreography or pantomime as something that allows movement to be performed in a “consistent and uniform manner.” Choreographers can fix their work through dance notation, video recording or textual descriptions or photographs. But to solely teach the choreography isn’t enough. It needs to be on paper or video, or documented somehow so it can be shared.

It seems simple, but there are exceptions. Common movements or activities, like yoga positions, line dances and exercise routines, are not copyrightable, even when they are unique. This even applies to the positions of ballet, like a tendu or an attitude.

Think of Balanchine’s work, for instance. While deep pliés and a specific articulation of the hands may be a recognizable hallmark of his style, the movements themselves are uncopyrightable. However, those elements did serve as building blocks for Balanchine’s ballets, which were fixed and copyrighted. Today, The George Balanchine Trust owns his ballets and licenses them for use.

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Looks like HYBE has a very uphill battle to go if the president is thinking of how to protect NewJeans….

The current president of Korea is now powerless, and he has more pressing issues. He refused to do anything about BTS , so unless his domineering wife, who makes a lot of decisions, is into NJ nothing will come out of that.

This is hilarious, and to think if ILLIT had just been original none of this drama would've occurred hehe

Only people who are mad about it are those fans who's faves steal other people's choreography 😂

Their president is a clown ... focus on your country's birth rate .. S Korea will soon become extinct or start importing from N Korea.

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Their president is a clown ... focus on your country's birth rate .. S Korea will soon become extinct or start importing from N Korea.

I, too, believe that presidents can only focus on one issue at a time while in office.

Hear, hear!

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I, too, believe that presidents can only focus on one issue at a time while in office.

Hear, hear!

Know your priorities Mr President. You only have a limited time in office and this is what you want to spend energy on?/

Its seem complicated because to copyright something its needs to be original enough, I can see them copyrighting entire choreos but single dance moves doesn't seem possible

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I imagine they may model it after U.S. law:

Michael Chiappetta, attorney and senior editor in the Intellectual Property & Technology Group at Thomson Reuters Practical Law, explains that you can copyright a dance as long as it's "an original work consisting of the composition and arrangement of a related series of dance movements and patterns organized into a coherent whole."

The United States Copyright Office defines a “fixation” in choreography or pantomime as something that allows movement to be performed in a “consistent and uniform manner.” Choreographers can fix their work through dance notation, video recording or textual descriptions or photographs. But to solely teach the choreography isn’t enough. It needs to be on paper or video, or documented somehow so it can be shared.

It seems simple, but there are exceptions. Common movements or activities, like yoga positions, line dances and exercise routines, are not copyrightable, even when they are unique. This even applies to the positions of ballet, like a tendu or an attitude.

Think of Balanchine’s work, for instance. While deep pliés and a specific articulation of the hands may be a recognizable hallmark of his style, the movements themselves are uncopyrightable. However, those elements did serve as building blocks for Balanchine’s ballets, which were fixed and copyrighted. Today, The George Balanchine Trust owns his ballets and licenses them for use.

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Yeah, this makes sense but by these standards there wouldn't be be any copyright infrigment into the NJ/Illit case because from what I've seen its single moves that have been"copied" and I don't think they could be considered "original enough"

They never original anyway, hope all the western choreographers gets their pennies for Kpop industry copying them.

Kpop groups stop dancing from now on...

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They never original anyway, hope all the western choreographers gets their pennies for Kpop industry copying them.

Kpop groups stop dancing from now on...

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What they gonna do then? lol.

It was something that was discussed long before the current conflict.

Absolute morons in this thread.

First of all, when they say copyright choreo, it means a sequence of moves, not just one move.

Does anyone own a copyright of one chord? Of course not. It's the sequence and arrangement of chords that creates a song, and that's what is copyrighted. No-ones inventing new musical notes and music seems to be going mostly fine.

Choreo will be the same - people will definitely use the same moves, but one move isn't copyrightable. If they copy the same 20-30 seconds of a sequence of moves- then that's the issue.

How thick are most people in this thread.

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out of all issues tho they should be working on how shit their country is becoming, esp for women...