interesting, cant copywrite a dance move, must be like not being able to copywrite a smell or frangrance. if the dance was your trademark, and someone did the dance then claimed to be you then you have a case.

and as far as pictures of that asshole on craigslist, posting pictures that were taken of him in public are totaly fine, especialy since they have a news worthy reason for being posted. if he was just some normal joe who didnt rat out craigslist perverts then he might have been able to get the pics removed, but not cause of copywrite it would just be from normal privacy laws.

I hope this DMCA takedown process goes further, there's a line between sanity and bigotry. Someone using a couple 'resembling steps' to your 'copyrighted dance' is ridiculous cause to try and use the DMCA as a reason to take media down.

Maybe this will carry over to be effectful against the big media publishers as well. They've sued for things like clips taken from ads, etc; and it seems that when something is made public like that on a free basis; it would make sense that consumers and citizens could take that free picture, clip, etc; and use it as they please, as long as they don't claim to actually represent the company they used as a source. Besides, it might help advertising schemes if companies could spawn popular ad campaigns that people took, made their own, and (Whether they realize it or not) they would make the brand/idea/product feel closer, more personalized to them, or 'friendlier'.

Anywho, my rant really has only a little to do with the actual news bit. I hope these DMCA takedowns start to hit major companies, who do the same ridiculous things that these small people have done. It's not fair to smackdown the little guy who's only imitating the big guys who do it constantly, right?