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ARTICLE · 12 JULY 2024

Tracy Anderson vs. Megan Roup - Round 3

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A federal judge tossed Anderson's copyright claim against former employee (and current competitor), Megan Roup, for alleged infringement of Anderson's the "Tracy Anderson Method" dance routines captured...

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A federal judge tossed Anderson's copyright claim against former employee (and current competitor), Megan Roup, for alleged infringement of Anderson's the "Tracy Anderson Method" dance routines captured on training DVDs.

We have blogged about this case before (see this post and this post). The short version: Roup worked for Anderson's studios as a trainer for six years before departing in 2017 to create her own choreograph/dance cardio workout called "The Sculpt Society." Feeling betrayed (no doubt) by her former protégé, Anderson's company filed suit in July 2022 against Roup and her competing fitness company.

Anderson asserted (among other claims) that her fitness routines were copyright-protected choreographic works and that Roup's workouts infringe upon those copyrights. Specifically, Anderson alleged that Roup infringed on Anderson's copyright protected DVDs not by copying the DVDs themselves, but by copying the underlying routines captured in the footage.

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Originally published by the New York Legal Ethics Reporter

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