Parody laws

[Beagle 2]

Alright mates. I've got an idea for an hilarious video that involves cutting up loads of Carry On films and old sitcoms like Rising Damp. But, will it get pulled from YouTube straight away (like my an hilarious video of Phillip Schofield did) or do these new parody laws I've heard about cover me?

[Uncle TechTip]

Music is the big thing they go for so make sure there are no identifiable songs and you won't trigger any automatic mechanism. Then you'll probably only suffer if your video becomes popular.

[Brundle-Fly]

If you're using original material without permission then it is breaking copyright. If you'd filmed all your mates dressed up as the Carry On team and aped the style of the films, then edited it and stuck it on YT,  you'd probably be covered but that's not going to happen.

Make it, put it out there and hope that instead of the Rank organisation coming after you (which they probably won't) they'll ask you to put together a trailer for the inevitable reissuing of the series in conjunction with the new film.

[Van Dammage]

When did you upload the Schofield one? Whenever I get done for copyright nowadays they just take the ad revenue and let me keep the video up.

[Small Man Big Horse]

Alright mates. I've got an idea for an hilarious video that involves cutting up loads of Carry On films and old sitcoms like Rising Damp. But, will it get pulled from YouTube straight away (like my an hilarious video of Phillip Schofield did) or do these new parody laws I've heard about cover me?

It seems to vary, my piss poor Dexter / 3rd Rock From The Sun mashup thing has been up for about five years now, whereas a different one a friend did lasted about a week. It may well depend on who owns / distributes the material as well, and their views on such things - I uploaded a load of Keep It In The Family clips for my Uncle which were up for about two years until Network released the series on dvd and all disappeared within a day.

[Mister Six]

If you're using original material without permission then it is breaking copyright.

Not if the resulting video is different enough from the original to count as a transformative work, which from the sounds of it this would be. As someone said, the big problem is audio, as YouTube's fucking automatic filter will bum you in the gob if it detects copyrighted music that goes on for too long.