This risk is potentially enhanced as choreographers more aggressively pursue copyright registration in works like the Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) dance, and as companies like KCMP seek out and enforce such registrations with greater frequency and efficacy. Implications for EnforcementĪs we have reported previously, the rise and proliferation of short-form content and viral dance trends, has brought with it the potential exposure for copyright infringement claims. KCMP will operate in a similar fashion to a typical music publisher - brokering licensing deals, enforcing intellectual property rights, and acting as a strategic partner for choreographers, dancers, and other creatives in the commercial music industry. Knight intends to continue to push for the copyright registration of similar choreographic works under his newly launched company, Knight Choreography & Music Publishing (KCMP). Since then, Knight has gone on to receive copyright registration for additional choreographic works, such as the choreography for “Body,” performed by Meghan Thee Stallion.
Knight made history in July 2020, when his choreography for Beyoncé‘s Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) became the first non-ballet choreographic work to be approved for copyright registration. These restrictions generally preclude dances like the grapevine, the basic waltz step, and celebratory end zone dance moves from copyright registration. Section 102 of the 1976 Copyright Act extends copyright protection to “pantomimes and choreographic works,” provided that the works do not constitute commonplace movements or gestures, social dances, and/or ordinary motor activities and athletic movements.
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