Posted on 03/04/2012 4:13:57 PM PST by doug from upland
Film Studio: Stop Parodying Our Hitler Rant
Downfall parodies disappearing from YouTube
By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff
Posted Apr 21, 2010 9:19 AM CDT
(Newser) – The day of reckoning has arrived for one of the Internet’s most enduring memes. The German movie studio behind the film Downfall has demanded that YouTube remove clips from the production subtitled by users to make it seem as if Hitler is ranting about anything from Michael Jackson’s death to the iPhone 4G leak. Downfall’s director says he considers the parodies a compliment, but Constantin Film’s lawyers are taking a harder line, Mashable notes.
“Posted Apr 21, 2010 9:19 AM CDT”
The lawyers don’t appear to have been entirely successful.
I think they figured out that these parodies led to increased sales of their film.
bttt
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