04-21-2010, 01:30 AM | #1 | |||
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Hitler is mad about copyright protection.
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04-21-2010, 01:33 AM | #2 |
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I'd just bought this movie when I found it the other day based almost entirely on my awareness of the movie based on those clips.
If I cared strongly enough, I'd return the movie to protest that move - especially as parody is supposed to be protected under fair use. |
04-21-2010, 02:15 AM | #3 |
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These things were warmed over a while ago. Even people I respect and admire were entertained by these things far longer than I was. The first two I saw were funny. After that...dude...get your own idea.
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04-21-2010, 10:13 AM | #4 | |
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Using the exact clip generally isn't protected under parody laws. |
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04-21-2010, 04:31 PM | #5 | |
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Why is it any different if 30,000 people engage in parody versus one person? I'm not aware of any part of copyright law that says parody is only okay if a specific portion of a work is only parodied by a single individual. |
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04-21-2010, 04:35 PM | #6 | |
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I dont get where this argument is coming from. |
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04-21-2010, 04:44 PM | #7 | |
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huh? The point wasnt about how many people are doing it, the point is that this is NOT parody. Its taking the EXACT clip and simply throwing new text under it, im fairly certain thats copyright infringement. |
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04-21-2010, 04:55 PM | #8 |
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Like most of these internet memes, I arrived to the party a few years late. I don't think I saw one of these parodies until a few months ago. I forgot exactly what Hitler was mad about in that one.
Also, I never even knew about "Rick Rolling" until a few weeks ago. I must not be a very creative or adventurous web surfer. Also, the fact that "You Tube" was blocked at work for a long, long time didn't help.
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04-21-2010, 04:57 PM | #9 |
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I tried to show my girlfriend one of these Hitler things once, but since she speaks German, I think the effect was lost. She's a real downer sometimes.
Downfall is a great movie, by the way. Last edited by molson : 04-21-2010 at 04:58 PM. |
04-21-2010, 05:47 PM | #10 | |
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Here's the thing - one of the tests as to whether "fair use" is in play is how much of the copyrighted work has been copied. A three minute clip out of a two hour movie is probably not going to fail that test. Particularly if the alleged infringers don't have a commercial motive in the creation of those parody clips. Where the studio would have recourse might be against YouTube or other hosts who profit from advertising sold/viewed alongside the clip, but the clips themselves do not, IMO, cross the line from "fair use" to "infringement." I mean, again. I'm not a lawyer. I dunno if the guys behind this site are licensed to practice, either, but here's what I found through a fairly quick Google search: http://www.publaw.com/parody.html I don't see anything in there that contradicts what I've said. Greyroofoo - I probably misunderstood what you were suggesting, though "exact clip" has fuck-all to do with it. We're still talking about fair-use protections whether I misunderstood the thrust of your argument or not. If the creators of those clips meet the guidelines for fair use protection as works of parody, there is no infringement. |
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04-21-2010, 07:51 PM | #11 |
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Matter of time, of course.
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