YouTube takes down Hitler ‘Downfall’ parody videos
YouTube has removed many of the Hitler ‘Downfall’ parody videos in the wake of complaints by the German production company that owns the right to the 2004 film.
|Last Updated: Apr 21, 2010, 03:25 PM IST|Source: Bureau
New York: YouTube has removed many of the Hitler ‘Downfall’ parody videos in the wake of complaints by the German production company that owns the right to the 2004 film.
According to the Open Video Alliance, Constantin films, owners of the rights to the film ‘Der Untergang’ (‘Downfall’), upon which the parody videos are based, filed the copyright claim.
All the parodies, which have become quite popular on Internet, focus on a single scene from the movie when Hitler screams at his generals upon learning that Germany is about to lose the war.
As the character playing Hitler lashes out in German, the subtitles in English from the original movie are replaced to indicate a completely different reason for the Fuhrer’s rage.
However, it is unclear how many parodies have been taken down and how many remain on YouTube.
But many of them could still be seen Tuesday, including ‘Hitler reacts to new Star Trek movie 4’, ‘Hitler is informed and rants about the Apple iPad’, and ‘Hitler finds out Tony Romo dumped Jessica Simpson’.
One of the videos, which were taken down, included ‘Hitler Gets Banned from XBox Live’ with a view-count of over 4 million.
“There are hundreds of Hitler Downfall videos, and it is unclear what will become of them. The burden of filing a counternotice or a claim of fair use to restore the video falls on individual users, so it will be difficult to reverse this action,” the New York Post quoted Open Video Alliance as saying on its website.
ANI
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