The Rise and Downfall of YouTube Popular Culture
April 25th, 2010
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Hitler, as Downfall producer orders a DMCA takedown from Brad Templeton on Vimeo.
Earlier this week, YouTube celebrated its fifth anniversary. Coincidentally, a couple of days earlier it emerged that Constantin Films – the movie company behind the Oscar-nominated movie about Hitler’s final days, Downfall – was actively working with YouTube to remove the vast number of video clips from the film from Google’s video-sharing website (see http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/apr/21/downfall-hitler)
“We’re taking a simple approach: take them all down,” Martin Moszkowicz, head of Constantin Films has said. “The important thing is to protect our copyright. We are very proud of the film.”