Here's a shocking development regarding The Electric Slide:

The Electric Slide dance is copyrighted and the inventor of that dance, Ron Sliver, is suing people left & right for copyright infringement. Check out this link to a website that is, ironically {given the theme of this thread} named "Wired": http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/02/electric_slide_.html

Here's an excerpt from that article:

Richard Silver claims that he invented the Electric Slide dance for a disco club in 1976. But rather than being the guy that just says, "Hey, I invented that dance!"... he's the guy saying, "Hey, I invented that dance and you owe me money for performing it!" Thirty years after creating his piece of choreographed genius, Silver is fighting anyone he finds doing the dance wrong... or publicly performing the dance without his consent.

Silver is using Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) complaints to request that any Electric Slide videos he finds on YouTube be removed. Additionally, he is seeking compensation from The Ellen DeGeneres Show for a performance of the dance on her show in February 2006.

He is very serious about the dance, both as a copyrighted work and as an important work of art for future generations".
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What Sliver doesn't "get" is that once a song or dance becomes part of the folk tradition, there's no stopping folks from changing its lyrics and changing how it is performed. That's part of the folk tradition.