Talk:Just Dance 2018/@comment-32899264-20180217032527/@comment-1465604-20180220073026

The 2 Official Choreo alts for Lady Gaga songs in Just Dance are not based on their music videos, are instead all based on their literal Official Choreos, the ones Lady Gaga and her dancers use during live performances. So of course they don't match the music videos perfectly, though they do match the official choreographies used in live performances of said songs. The Applause alt, however, is only partially based on the official choreography, but it still has enough of it to be copyrighted.

There's a reason why "Singles Ladies" contained literally zero moves from the official choreography: Cost. And, yes, choreography is copyrighted.

I think this is why we are yet to see either the "Applause" or "Bad Romance" alts on JDU/JDN. It would simply cost more than Ubisoft are willing to pay to license them. I also think it most likely almost none of the licensing contracts Ubisoft signed for songs prior to 2015 included any clauses for streaming services, as any such clauses would've cost Ubisoft more money and there was no need to license songs they weren't even sure they'd use on JDN/JDU before doing so. This explains why we've never gotten all of the songs from a certain game all at once but in batches. Ubisoft are likely renegotiating licensing deals on a per song or per artist basis.