It's Electric!

The intellectual property debate has officially "jumped the shark." Ric Silver, the inventer of the dance, The Electric Slide (formerly, The Electric), is considering copyrighting his dance because "people keep doing it wrong (paraphrase)". I'm not really a dancer, but I thought dancing in its basic philosophy, encouraged a little improvisation, and a little wiggle room--a personal touch. Am I the only who thinks this is a little nutty? Can one copyright a dance? How will this be enforced? Will the dance police patrol every club in the world looking for dance criminals? I think it would be one thing to copyright The Tango, but the Electric Slide? Do a lot of people still dance in this style? If you can copyright one dance, you'll have to copyright them all. Freddie better start the copyright process or someone might try to steal this little gem or do it wrong:

I'm Starting to NOT like Dale Chihuly

This is ridiculous. Can you imagine if Caravaggio sued his various copiers-of-style, or Rembrandt, or Rubens? You can definitely tell we are living in the 21st century. People can be such babies. Chihuly could just step down from his ivory tower for just a minute and make BETTER work than anybody if he is the 'master' that he proclaims to be. Whatever happened to just being happy with being better and flattered that people wanted to copy you? Now artists have to sue each other? It's very unbecoming. A house divided against itself cannot stand--and we artists have to stick together. Sad.