The folks at Rocketboom and Know Your Meme have put together a handy PSA video to teach YouTube the basics of challenging a wrongful DMCA takedown claim with a “fair use” defense.
The subject gained much interest recently after the film company behind the movie Downfall / Der Untergang DMCA’d a bunch of those “Hitler Finds Out…” funnyvideos.
Links: YouTube PSA, Rocketboom “Know Your Meme” blog post with details (with links to EFF, CfSM, FUP).
Related: Mark Dery, a recurring guest contributor to Boing Boing, has a recent essay over at True/Slant on the ünterganging of Üntergang vids: Endtime for Hitler: On the Downfall of the Downfall Parodies
Previously:
- Hitler "Downfall" video meme is DMCA'd
- Adolf Hitler makes a Hitler YouTube parody video
- Hitler finds out about new Watchmen ending (yet another DOWNFALL …
- Critical Commons vs. Hitler: resource for free/open media and fair …
- Hitler's pissed off about fair use
- HOWTO sneak Hitler onto YouTube
- "Der Untergang" clip used as real estate downfall video
- Google highlights fair use defense to YouTube takedowns