YouTuber Jacksfilms accuses Fortnite of \u2018stealing\u2019 his Deep Dab dance Popular YouTube star John \u2018Jacksfilms\u2019 Douglass has accused Epic Games of \u2018stealing\u2019 his Deep Dab dance with their newly released emote, but used a genius way to score a profit. Publisher Epic Games have come under fire in the past for cosmetics and dances released in the daily item shop, facing multiple lawsuits from individuals who claimed to have intellectual property rights over such moves. Fresh Prince of Bel Air actor Alfonso Ribeiro (aka Carlton) and rappers 2 Milly and BlocBoy JB have all pursued legal action against the developers over dances they believe were \u2018copied\u2019. Despite their lawsuits, it appears Epic have continued to take inspiration for their emotes from popular stars. YouTuber Jackfilms released a video on June 20 titled \u201cFortnite is literally selling my deep dab\u201d referring an emote that was first seen in the item shop on the same day. After watching the emote in-game, Douglass remarks \u201cThat\u2019s me!\u201d highlighting a video that was published on his channel exactly two years ago which is extremely similar to the Fortnite dance. The 30-year-old was bombarded by his fans after the emote was leaked and revealed he received no contact from Epic Games it would be coming to the game. \u201cEpic Games did not contact me, I had no prior knowledge that this was coming to the game,\u201d he said. \u201cCan we just compare the two moves? \u201cThey are the same thing. It\u2019s practically motion captured.\u201d Rather than pursue legal action against the developer, Jacksfilms revealed he will instead be creating a support-a-creator code, which allows him to take a percentage of the money generated from item shop purchases. Although the law is not exactly clear, dance steps and routines generally aren\u2019t protected by copyright law, so it seems the American has made the right move to profit from the emote\u2019s inclusion in-game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
YouTuber Jacksfilms accuses Fortnite of \u2018stealing\u2019 his Deep Dab dance Popular YouTube star John \u2018Jacksfilms\u2019 Douglass has accused Epic Games of \u2018stealing\u2019 his Deep Dab dance with their newly released emote, but used a genius way to score a profit. Publisher Epic Games have come under fire in the past for cosmetics and dances released […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}