It’s true – the spoofs from the movie Downfall are being blocked on YouTube. Constantin Films owns the rights to the movies, and the company has claimed copyright infringement. Here’s a good article on TimesOnline, with an even better title: “Hitler’s Copyright Panzers Roll Out.” As I’ve noted before, the director of the movie, Oliver Hirschbiegel, loves the spoofs. Unsurprisingly, Abe Foxman of the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) thinks the spoofs are offensive and trivialize the Holocaust. Also see this article from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, “Everyone Who made a Hitler Parody Video, Leave the Room.”

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