Well, it surely would be better for Daniil‘s reputation if he just paid Jojo for her work and Alina would be able to use the program again. It would also save the time they‘d need to choreograph another exhibition program. I know these kind of programs are done more quickly than normal competitive ones but it‘s still the middle of the off-season and they are probably busy as it is. I don‘t know if realistically there can be a fairytale ending of them all being friends, but it would indeed be kind of cool if this got solved and they‘d work together in the future.
I was just selfishly hoping Daniil would make something unique and new because I don‘t like the way Jojo‘s choreography looks on the ice and am no fan of it in general. So, I think I‘d like his own work more than the one he took from someone else.
I bet this is solved through the copyright collective agencies. Never paid attention to how this works in figure skating but from my law experience with similar matters it is done this way. Those who use some piece of art on regular basis for their activities pass the list of used art to such agency and pay a fee from which the rights owners are rewarded. I bet it is centralized in some way and it goes through ISU, like skaters send the list to ISU and ISU deals with copyright agencies (or on national level with national skating fed). Or, that is how I would arrange it as a lawyer
Evgenia may have carryover from her performance at Worlds winning the bronze medal and scoring so well in the free skate. She will be going into next season with more confidence than last season that should help a lot.
. Maybe next time we should speak in german, we'll definitely understand each other better 
Yes Zhenya got very tough Grand Prix assignments. Like you said she has to be in good form and a lot of it will depend on her competitors and how clean they are or are not. Because as we know programs with quads and triple axels is very hard and it's hard to stay clean doing quads and triple axels.
The program "Carmen" uses music from "Carmen-suite". There is a reference to the ballet. The choreography for "BG" was copied not from the song movie, but from a third-party choreography without reference to the source.
I am worried for Alyona.
In her first event I don't expect the judges to give her 'senior' level PCS, they're not going to do that in her senior debut performance. She'll probably get 69-70, which is quite good!
At the same time, she meets with Alina and Kaori, both of whom are gettin 74+ in PCS, so if all three skate clean, Alyona will only get a bronze at best. And even if Kaori will have a pop, like she did at worlds, she's still going to get 145+, and I don't think clean Alyona in her first event will get those scores.
In her second event, again, even if she'll get some PCS boost this time, she's going against Rika on home soil (and Rika being the main japanese lady right now, will definitely be held up by the judges) and Alina, who's the OG, and she only needs to go clean to win against clean Alyona, since both TES and PCS of Alina will be higher.
With 2 possible bronzes in this scenario, she might miss GPF =/
There are too many ladies I want to make it to GPF, way more than 6. Would be so much better if ISU considered expanding the number of GPF qualifiers, because it can actually make the event even more popular if all those star ladies were able to make it into the final.
On the other hand, I'm trying to persuade myself, than GPF is no biggie, there's still some time before olympics for things to work out for other skaters.
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I am worried for Alyona.
In her first event I don't expect the judges to give her 'senior' level PCS, they're not going to do that in her senior debut performance. She'll probably get 69-70, which is quite good!
At the same time, she meets with Alina and Kaori, both of whom are gettin 74+ in PCS, so if all three skate clean, Alyona will only get a bronze at best. And even if Kaori will have a pop, like she did at worlds, she's still going to get 145+, and I don't think clean Alyona in her first event will get those scores.
In her second event, again, even if she'll get some PCS boost this time, she's going against Rika on home soil (and Rika being the main japanese lady right now, will definitely be held up by the judges) and Alina, who's the OG, and she only needs to go clean to win against clean Alyona, since both TES and PCS of Alina will be higher.
With 2 possible bronzes in this scenario, she might miss GPF =/
There are too many ladies I want to make it to GPF, way more than 6. Would be so much better if ISU considered expanding the number of GPF qualifiers, because it can actually make the event even more popular if all those star ladies were able to make it into the final.
On the other hand, I'm trying to persuade myself, than GPF is no biggie, there's still some time before olympics for things to work out for other skaters.
