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Old 08-22-2009, 10:09 AM
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Originally Posted by wasabi622 View Post
can you even own a "dance"?? i mean.. if the lyrics aren't there and they're not using her face, can they sorta bypass it?

'sides, didn't Alizee have to fight to get the rights to her songs once she split from Mylene?
Choreography can be copyrighted, but I don't know the details. I would imagine Mylene and/or her collaborators created the JEAM dance.

Alizée never had rights to the Mylene era songs. The only thing Alizée would have rights to is her performance of the songs on the sound recording. The rights to the songs themselves are controlled by the writers and the publishing company, in this case MB/LB. Of course these rights can be further reasigned by written contract. That doesn't mean Alizée can't perform them. It just means she would have to pay the appropriate fee for each song she uses.
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