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The Hitler parody video clips taken from the movie Der Untergang (Downfall) have been on the internet for several years now. Constantin Film has ordered that YouTube take down all the videos made, claiming they are trying to protect their rights. This is the newest battle in the copyright wars.
Hitler loses his iphone is not on YouTube, but you can find it here.
Of particular note is that the producer of the movie enjoys all the clips himself and does not see a problem with the parody videos.
“Someone sends me the links every time there’s a new one,” says the director, on the phone from Vienna. “I think I’ve seen about 145 of them! Of course, I have to put the sound down when I watch. Many times the lines are so funny, I laugh out loud, and I’m laughing about the scene that I staged myself! You couldn’t get a better compliment as a director.” Some of Hirschbiegel’s favorites are the one where Hitler hears of Michael Jackson’s death, and one in which the Fuhrer can’t get Billy Elliot tickets
The video clip below is a rant about the DMCA itself, which was ordered to be taken down, but the creator of this clip has filed an appeal, claiming that it’s fair use. So, for now, this video remains online.
Hitler, as “Downfall producer” orders a DMCA takedown from Brad Templeton on Vimeo.
Full details at http://ideas.4brad.com/hitler-tries-dmca-takedown – There are hundreds of parodies of this “Downfall” clip. The studio, Constantin Films, has ordered takedowns of some of them, and eventually even had this parody removed from YouTube. In this clip, Hitler is the producer, and his lawyers tell him why he can’t do a DMCA takedown and how the EFF could stop him. He desperately searches for other ways to protect the movie.
Made by Brad Templeton, an EFF board member (but releasing the video on his own.) This video educates about intellectual property issues and parodies the actions of the studio using the very clip they are censoring.
Victoria police have launched an internal investigation after this YouTube video surfaced. It shows a police officer kicking young men during an arrest outside a downtown nightclub.
Trey Parker or Matt Stone did an interview over Comedy Central caving in to the pressure and censoring Muhammad.
Trey Parker: So Matt and I were like, “This is great; we have our first episode.” Comedy Central kept saying, “We’re not going to broadcast a Muhammad episode.” And we said, “You totally have the right, it’s your network, but we’re going to make one, and it’s going to be one of the seven you pay for.”
Matt Stone: And then we made it two episodes out of seven. It was life imitating art, because the whole week after the first one aired there was a teaser “Will television executives take a stand for free speech? Or will Comedy Central puss out?” That whole week we were trying to get Comedy Central to show Muhammad. And they pussed out. They did show most of the episode, but they blocked out the specific moment when Muhammad appears. I know people who assumed you decided to run those title cards yourself, as part of the satire: “In this shot, Muhammad hands a football helmet to Family Guy. Comedy Central has refused to broadcast an image of Muhammad on their network.”
Here is the Family Guy part, not censored.
Muhammad and His Salmon Helmet – The top video clips of the week are here
Starting this summer, anyone who wants to enter an internet cafe will be required to show their passport.
The decree requires all Internet providers in Belarus to store data on the Internet use of individuals for a full year and to hand that information over to law-enforcement agencies upon request.
It also requires Internet service providers to block access to any website within 24 hours of being asked to do so by government regulators — a provision that goes beyond antiterrorism security rules imposed under the most restrictive Internet laws in Western countries.
Activists said the “Decree on the Regularization of the Belarusian segment of the Internet” is simply being used to tighten control over the Internet in the country.
The president’s official website says the decree is “an attempt to protect the rights of Belarusian citizens, society, and the state in the field of information.”
While this appears to be targeted at Belarusians, particularly activists, it will probably be required of anyone entering internet cafes, including foreigners.
