{"id":3655,"date":"2010-05-05T12:50:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T16:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=3655"},"modified":"2010-10-25T13:51:05","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T17:51:05","slug":"three-reasons-not-to-remove-the-downfall-parodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/05\/05\/three-reasons-not-to-remove-the-downfall-parodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Three reasons not to remove the Downfall<\/em> parodies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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3 Reasons YouTube Shouldn’t Censor Downfall Parodies<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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It’s understandable why Downfall’s production company, Constantin Film, might be upset that such a serious movie is being burlesqued, but pushing YouTube to ban the parodies is a terrible idea for at least three reasons:<\/p>\n

1. It’s fair use!<\/strong> The parodies, which transform a few minutes of a three-hour movie, are clearly legit under existing copyright laws. Because they clearly transform the original and have no possibility of confusing viewers, the parodies are clearly protected speech.<\/p>\n

2. This is free promotion!<\/strong> As George Lucas could tell the filmmakers, fan-generated videos help keep the original source material vital and relevant. Lucas used to try to police all Star Wars<\/em> knock-offs, until he realized that his audience was promoting his films more effectively than he ever could. More people have surely seen Downfall<\/em> due to the popularity of the parodies.<\/p>\n

3. Let’s keep the Internet creative!<\/strong> The greatest cultural development over the past 20 or so years has been technologies that allow producers and consumers to create and enjoy an ever-increasing array of creative expression in an ever-increasing array of circumstances. This development is nowhere more powerful than on the Internet, which has unleashed a whole new universe of writing, music, video, and more. Indeed, YouTube is itself one of the great conduits of cyberspace. Pulling down the Downfall<\/em> parodies may be within YouTube’s rights, but it nonetheless strikes a blow to the heart of what is totally awesome about the Internet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

3 Reasons YouTube Shouldn’t Censor Downfall Parodies [. . .] It’s understandable why Downfall’s production company, Constantin Film, might be upset that such a serious movie is being burlesqued, but pushing YouTube to ban the parodies is a terrible idea for at least three reasons: 1. It’s fair use! The parodies, which transform a few […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,9,28,230],"tags":[135,58,122,463,217],"class_list":["post-3655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-law","category-media","category-ww2","tag-copyright","tag-internet","tag-movies","tag-parody","tag-rights"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-WX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3655"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6042,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655\/revisions\/6042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}