In 2007, Silver filed
DMCA-based take-down notices to
YouTube users who posted videos of people performing the 18-step dance variation. The
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit on behalf of videographer Kyle Machulis against Silver, asking the court to protect Machulis's
free speech rights in recording a few steps of the dance in a
documentary video posted to the
Internet. On May 22, 2007, the EFF came to an agreement to settle the lawsuit: the settlement states that Silver will license the Electric Slide under a
Creative Commons noncommercial license and will also post the new license on any of his current or future websites that mention the Electric Slide. The NPR reporter Patricia Meschino wrote: "Broadway Choreographer Ric Silver created the popular line dance the Electric Slide for the song-a routine
Wailer nimbly demonstrates in a 1989 video". In recent decades, there has been some controversy regarding the creation year of the Electric Slide line dance. Silver claimed that he received a demo of the song 'Electric Boogie' in 1976, which he used to create his dance steps. Yet according to Marcia Griffiths, the song 'Electric Boogie' was written for her by Bunny Wailer in early 1980s. == References ==