Talk:Just Dance 2017/@comment-31000046-20161129102814/@comment-1465604-20161129111342

SatoTheScientist101: Thank you for answering my question. I don't have my game set up right now so I couldn't check it myself.

This is actually a good thing. The first 4 JDK songs were all in the public domain when Ubisoft commissioned versions of them to be recorded for Just Dance, so Ubisoft owned all of the rights to them, meaning they didn't have to pay any extra fees or negotiate any extra rights before adding them to JDU.

"Jingle Bells" and "Alphabet Song" are in the public domain, so it's the same old same old. "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" is not yet in the public domain and there was actually a huge lawsuit involved with Disney over its rights and "I Like To Move It" isn't in the public domain either.

Both, like all other JDK songs, were covers, though. So this means that when Ubisoft originally commissioned the covers, they negotiated for complete control over the rights of the cover for the purposes of the Just Dance series (or something similar) or they renegotiated the licenses and paid any needed extra fees to include these 2 songs.

If it's the the former, it's possible Ubisoft did this for all of their self-commissioned covers, which means that songs from the main series that were covers could have an easy way onto JDU. If it's the latter, it still gives us a glimmer of hope because that means Ubisoft likely has an easier time renegotiating the rights of an have to pass less for covers, which means it's possible they'll be able to do this easily for other JD songs that were covers. Like, we still don't have "Holiday", for example. It might be easy and cheap for Ubisoft to re-license it.