Bad Lip Reading 'Force Awakens' is Back on YouTube
by EG
YouTube restored Bad Lip Reading’s viral parody of “Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens” Friday morning — more than 16 hours after pulling the video down because of an apparently fake copyright-takedown claim.
The video, a six-minute spoof of Disney/Lucasfilm’s “Force Awakens” blockbuster, features Mark Hamill doing a spot-on voiceover impression of co-star Harrison Ford.
Bad Lip Reading uploaded the video Thursday, topping 1 million views before YouTube removed it sometime before 7 p.m. ET. YouTube cited a copyright claim by New York-based Dramatists Play Service, which publishes and licenses plays by new and established playwrights — but on its Twitter account, DPS said that the claim was “erroneous” and that it didn’t know how the takedown claim was submitted in its name. The “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” video had more than 1.37 million views as of Friday at 11:35 a.m. ET.
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