{"id":272061,"date":"2010-02-03T15:44:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T20:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=91712"},"modified":"2010-02-03T15:44:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T20:44:05","slug":"randy-jackson-mtv-accused-of-stealing-concept-for-%e2%80%9camerica%e2%80%99s-best-dance-crew%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/272061","title":{"rendered":"Randy Jackson, MTV Accused Of Stealing Concept For \u201cAmerica\u2019s Best Dance Crew\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/mtv-logo-500x382.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mtv-logo\" width=\"500\" height=\"382\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-49144\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>American Idol<\/em> judge Randy Jackson and MTV have been named in a new lawsuit over allegations that the idea for their reality dance contest, <em>America\u2019s Best Dance Crew<\/em>, was stolen from a Los Angeles dance instructor.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-91712\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Last week, Dwight McGhee filed papers in Los Angeles County Superior Court suing Randy and MTV for allegedly copying his idea. The choreographer claims he pitched the format of a dancing show, titled International Breakerz League, to the network in 2004. McGhee claims the network snubbed him only to use the concept four years later without his involvement.<\/p>\n<p>He is seeking $2 million, TMZ.com reports. The fifth season of <em>America&#8217;s Best Dance Crew<\/em> premiered last Thursday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Idol judge Randy Jackson and MTV have been named in a new lawsuit over allegations that the idea for their reality dance contest, America\u2019s Best Dance Crew, was stolen from a Los Angeles dance instructor. Last week, Dwight McGhee filed papers in Los Angeles County Superior Court suing Randy and MTV for allegedly copying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}