I just flipped on the TV to get some music in the background, and this movie is currently running on the ARTE channel here (in Germany). Not sure my German is good enough to actually follow the film, but as soon as I saw Hitler all I could think of was the parodies. Debating whether or not to leave it on for the bunker scene.
I bought the film on Blu Ray because of one of those parodies. I have yet to watch it.
I had a chance to chat with some of the attorneys from EFF last Friday. They’re of the opinion that it’s clearly Fair Use. They’re obviously biased but even an attorney from Fox Entertainment didn’t protest too strenuously when the subject was discussed.
When I worked in a copyright permissions office for a textbook company, our typical benchmark for Fair Use was 20 copies of 10% of a work we owned. Anything we didn’t wholly own, of course, had different and more complicated rules. We wouldn’t have been okay with someone posting ten percent of one of our books online, though, whether for profit or not.
But I must say that those dippy videos convinced me to Netflix the movie. I was actually thinking of watching it tonight, but it’s sitting on the bookcase still.
Is there hope?