YouTube Accidentally Pulls 'Force Awakens' Bad Lip Reading Video
by EG
Bad Lip Reading’s viral parody of “Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens” was pulled off YouTube just hours after it was posted because of an apparently bogus copyright-takedown claim.
The video, a six-minute spoof of Disney/Lucasfilm’s “Force Awakens” blockbuster, featured Mark Hamill doing a spot-on voiceover impression of co-star Harrison Ford.
The video was posted Thursday and attracted widespread notice before it was removed sometime before 7 p.m. ET. As of Friday morning, it was still unavailable. YouTube cited a copyright claim by New York-based Dramatists Play Service, which publishes and licenses plays by new and established playwrights.
In an email to Variety Thursday, the creator of Bad Lip Reading (who prefers to remain anonymous) said his team was working to restore the video. “The people who made the claim (Dramatists Play Service) have zero grounds and one can’t help but assume it was done maliciously,” he wrote.
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