[regularfry]

> A video or whatever may be copyrighted, but it's not really possible to protect a "trick".

Interestingly, this isn't quite true. People are trying to exert copyright over the specific motions under choreography protection.

[clort]

I wonder how this would go down in a court of law, in that the specific motions they are claiming copyright on were /obfuscated/ or downright /concealed/ from view. I wonder if you can legally be considered to have copied something you have not seen..

[regularfry]

I suppose what you'd end up copyrighting is the final effect, not how it's achieved. Which is, I guess, the point.

[manarth]

Without knowledge of the finer points of copyright law (IANAL), is this (the final effect) even copyrightable?