Nicole Carpenter is a senior reporter specializing in investigative features about labor issues in the game industry, as well as the business and culture of games. Kelley Heyer, an actor and ...

In her lawsuit, which was filed April 11, Heyer alleges that she and Roblox were in negotiations for the dance to be licensed as a purchasable “Emote” on the platform, which Roblox released ...

According to Polygon, Heyer estimates that Roblox earned over $123,000 from selling more than 60,000 emotes of the “Apple” dance. “As a platform powered by a community of creators ...

That’s fine, as that’s TikTok. However, Roblox then took the dance and turned it into an emote for players to use. Now, on the surface, that doesn’t sound too bad, and it wouldn’t have ...

Kelley Heyer, a TikToker with over 300,000 followers, has filed a lawsuit against Roblox that claims the virtual gaming company turned her viral Charli XCX “Apple” dance into an in-game emote ...

Heyer originally posted the dance on TikTok last summer, and it was correctly licensed by Fortnite and added to that game last December. Roblox, according to Heyer, added the emote last August ...

That was after Roblox reached out to her about licensing the dance as an emote for players to purchase. Roblox added the dance emote, an in-game action used to express a character’s personality ...

Though Roblox allegedly reached out to negotiate ... sued Fortnite owner Epic Games over the use of his heavily-memed “Carlton dance” as an emote, as did the mother of Russell Horning, the ...

Kelley Heyer choreographed the Apple dance which inspired ... Ms Heyer's legal team claims Roblox made $123,000 (£93,000) from selling the moves as an "emote" - a celebratory animation used ...

Kelley Heyer, an actor and TikTok content creator, has sued Roblox over the usage and sale of her copyrighted dance to “Apple” by pop star Charli XCX — a dance that went viral on TikTok and ...