Ξέρετε κανένα όνομα γι' αυτόν τον χορό; Ή κάποια πρόταση έστω; Πριν δω το βίντεο, σκέφτηκα να το πω "ηλεκτρική τσουλήθρα", αλλά δεν νομίζω ότι στέκει.
The Electric Slide is a four wall line dance which has received repeated attention due to extensive copyright claims by choreographer Ric Silver, who claims to have invented this dance as well as The Robot and breakdancing. The dance is often performed accompanying Marcia Griffiths's song Electric Boogie. It was fairly popular during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDENY9A-N1A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDENY9A-N1A
As early as 2007, Silver had started filing DMCA-based takedown notices to YouTube users who were posting videos of people performing the dance in a manner he deemed incorrect.[1][2]
On March 1, 2007, The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit against the man who claims to have created the popular line dance The Electric Slide, asking the court to protect the free speech rights of a videographerdocumentary video posted to the Internet.
On May 22, 2007, the EFF came to an agreement to settle the lawsuit: the agreed settlement states that Mr. Silver will license the Electric Slide under a Creative Commons license[4] and to also post the new license on any of his current or future websites that mention the Electric Slide. EFF agreed to see that all uses of The Electric Slide reference Mr. Silver's name as Choreographer.
On February 3, 2008, exactly one year after Silver's YouTube takedown campaign, 54 year-old Tulsa, Oklahoma native William Tavers posted a video on the popular site claiming to be the true originator of the electric slide. In the video (posted by "Blastercyze" - Tavers' YouTube handle) Tavers repeatedly refers to Ric Silver as "a no good, lousy thief" and "a blasted, cowardly cheat", claiming January 20, 1969 - during the inaugural address of Richard Nixon - as the date he, not Silver, invented the electric slide. In total, the video ran 9 minutes and 38 seconds, the last minute of which saw Tavers challenge Ric Silver to a duel that was to be carried at 12pm on February 10, 2008 in the parking lot of Tulsa's Expo Square. Silver, hesitant to dignify what he saw as a ludicrous claim, nonetheless agreed to go through with the duel, stating - in a response video - his hopes for all fraudulent claims regarding the origin of the electric slide to "die with the cretin Blastercyze". Neither party showed up for the duel, however, as Tavers wound up having to work a double that day at Home Depot, while Silver claimed he wasn't actually serious about going through with the duel. YouTube has since pulled both videos.
On April 4, 2008, Ric Silver made an appearance on NBC's Amne$ia to judge one of the contestants doing The Electric Slide.
On March 1, 2007, The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit against the man who claims to have created the popular line dance The Electric Slide, asking the court to protect the free speech rights of a videographerdocumentary video posted to the Internet.
On May 22, 2007, the EFF came to an agreement to settle the lawsuit: the agreed settlement states that Mr. Silver will license the Electric Slide under a Creative Commons license[4] and to also post the new license on any of his current or future websites that mention the Electric Slide. EFF agreed to see that all uses of The Electric Slide reference Mr. Silver's name as Choreographer.
On February 3, 2008, exactly one year after Silver's YouTube takedown campaign, 54 year-old Tulsa, Oklahoma native William Tavers posted a video on the popular site claiming to be the true originator of the electric slide. In the video (posted by "Blastercyze" - Tavers' YouTube handle) Tavers repeatedly refers to Ric Silver as "a no good, lousy thief" and "a blasted, cowardly cheat", claiming January 20, 1969 - during the inaugural address of Richard Nixon - as the date he, not Silver, invented the electric slide. In total, the video ran 9 minutes and 38 seconds, the last minute of which saw Tavers challenge Ric Silver to a duel that was to be carried at 12pm on February 10, 2008 in the parking lot of Tulsa's Expo Square. Silver, hesitant to dignify what he saw as a ludicrous claim, nonetheless agreed to go through with the duel, stating - in a response video - his hopes for all fraudulent claims regarding the origin of the electric slide to "die with the cretin Blastercyze". Neither party showed up for the duel, however, as Tavers wound up having to work a double that day at Home Depot, while Silver claimed he wasn't actually serious about going through with the duel. YouTube has since pulled both videos.
On April 4, 2008, Ric Silver made an appearance on NBC's Amne$ia to judge one of the contestants doing The Electric Slide.
