Alfonso Ribeiro arrives at the Disney/ABC 2018 Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour in Beverly Hills, Calif., Aug. 7, 2018. LOS ANGELES - "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" star Alfonso Ribeiro has dropped a lawsuit against the makers of the video game "Fortnite" over its use of the "Carlton" dance he did on the show.
Ribeiro's lawyers filed documents Thursday in federal court in Los Angeles saying he's voluntarily dismissing the suit against North Carolina-based Epic Games.The actor had already dropped a similar suit against Take-Two Interactive, makers of the video game NBA2K16. The suits received a serious blow last month when federal officials denied Ribeiro a copyright for the "Carlton."
Ribeiro's nerdy, arm-swinging dance, usually to Tom Jones' "It's Not Unusual," was popularized through his character, Carlton Banks, on the 1990s sitcom.
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the gaming community can be very cruel, Im sure they showed him how unhappy they were with him LOL
Far out he probably could've won it was so no one for it
I should think so. People danced like that before he did. It was the way we danced in the 80's and before. Maybe not in that exaggerated a fashion but he did not invent it.