Giving up the IP in perpetuity is what would be different. >He added, “By the end of the recording, the right to these moves would go to them.” Li said back t

Giving up the IP in perpetuity is what would be different. >He added, “By the end of the recording, the right to these moves would go to them.” Li said back then, he was already worried that future technology would allow US filmmakers to digitally reproduce his moving body and superimpose the face of any actor onto it. “I was thinking: I’ve been training my entire life. And we martial artists could only grow older. Yet they could own [my moves] as an intellectual property forever. So I said I couldn’t do that,” Li said.