YouTube has recently begun removing videos that feature content from Constantin Films 2004 film about the last days of Hitler, "Der Untergang" ("Downfall"), despite the fact that many of these videos are parodies and thus constitute fair use of the material, according to MSNBC.
The "Downfall" parodies often take a now-infamous scene from the movie--in which Hitler reacts to the news that Germany is about to lose the war--and puts satirical subtitles over the action (the movie is in German).
"According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, these videos are being removed because of YouTube's automated Content I.D. system, which allows copyright owners to disable any videos that contain its content — regardless of whether the videos may be legitimate because they contain other elements. Many of the parodies are still up, as YouTube's Content I.D. system is not perfect — but it's probably only a matter of time before the filtering system hunts them down and removes them," according to MSNBC.
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