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The Philip DeFranco Show
philip defranco
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2018
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Sop you beautiful bastards, they'll be even a fantastic Friday. |
| 0:02.9 | Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show. |
| 0:04.7 | And if you're new here on Fridays, I do things a little bit different. |
| 0:07.0 | Fridays I try to cover more of the viewer requested stories from the week. |
| 0:09.4 | And so with that said, let's just jump into it. |
| 0:11.4 | And the first thing we're gonna talk about today is actually this massive news around Fortnite. |
| 0:15.0 | And it was not because of the season 7 news, which the way they're able to change the game constantly is amazing to me. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm horrible at it, almost never play it, but I always end up finding myself watching it. |
| 0:23.4 | But the news that we saw come out this week is that Epic Games, who makes Fort Knight, |
| 0:27.2 | they are being sued by rapper 2 Millie. |
| 0:29.2 | And the reason is because of this Fort Knight Emote. |
| 0:31.8 | And the reason for this is 2 Millie, aka Terence Ferguson. |
| 0:34.7 | He has filed a copyright lawsuit claiming that this emote is copyright infringement |
| 0:38.9 | of his Millie rock dance. |
| 0:40.2 | And following this, I've seen a lot of debate online |
| 0:41.9 | as to whether this choreography |
| 0:43.3 | it can be copy-written. But what was really interesting in a lawsuit we saw this |
| 0:46.8 | the lawsuit reading, however, Epic has consistently sought to exploit African-American |
| 0:50.8 | talent in particular in Fortnite by copying their dances and movements. |
| 0:54.0 | Then referencing a dance from the music video, Drop it Like It's Hot, |
| 0:56.8 | named the Tidy Emo, The Carlton from Fresh Prince of Belair, named the Fresh Emo. |
| 1:00.1 | Donald Fazon's Dance from Scrubs, named the Dance Moves Emo, and adding upon |
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