Peter Friedman
Lawyer
Ruling Imagination: Law and Creativity
April 22nd, 2010 | copyright and fair use
The Copyright Police find out there are Hitler Parodies.
YouTube has recently begun removing videos that feature content from Constantin Films’ 2004 film, “Der Untergang” (“Downfall”), despite the fact that many of these videos are parodies and thus constitute fair use of the material.
This video says it all:
style="text-align: right;">I’m sorry to report to lawyers and law students this version has been taken down:
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:34 pm
Geez, these guys have no sense of humor. And no idea that these YouTube videos are more likely to increase sales of the source movie than decrease them. If I were the (c) holder, I’d say make the users give a credit to the movie. Other than that, welcome their parodies.
April 27th, 2010 at 11:39 am
[...] In addition to explaining why YouTube’s automated Content ID tracking system results in the kind of baseless deletions I referred to the other day, Walters also explains that [Y]ou can dispute any Content ID claim. If you have a clip that’s [...]