Courts Grapple with Suits Over Fortnite’s Emotes

By Andrew Quinn, Georgetown Law 3L   In the past few months, Epic Games, Inc., the creator of the massively popular video game Fortnite, sought dismissal of two separate suits against it for allegedly copying dance moves and incorporating them into “emotes.” Emotes are movements that players of Fornite can command their avatars to perform and are sold as an in-game purchase in the Fortnite electronic storefront. In the more recent suit decided in May, Brantley v. Epic Games, Inc., No. 8