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What's Up, Tiger Lily?
1966 · Film · 80 min
Directed by Woody Allen, Senkichi Taniguchi
In comic Woody Allen's film debut, he took the Japanese action film "International Secret Police: Key of Keys" and re-dubbed it, changing the plot to make it revolve around a secret egg salad recipe.
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Apropos of nothing, live theatre musicians and live voice over artists during movies made a solid comeback in the 1980s in several countries as part of what some described as the "dub parody" genre ala What's Up, Tiger Lily?, Hercules Returns and a run of actually live examples.
Addendum: eg https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-07-22-ca-7511-story.html in California.
This article is a little hyperbolic.
First, the item in question was Overt Act #28 out of 103. Case law is not going to rest entirely on this French Sopranos episode.
Even then, overlaying a copyrighted work with translated subtitles isn't transformative. What's Up Tiger Lily is transfomative. Fansubbing is not.
Finally, any website that allows public upload and sharing knows that copyrighted works will eventually end up on their servers illegally. It's how the company handles it from that point forward that matters. This (among numerous other examples):
ppp. On or about January 28, 2010, in an e-mail entitled “activating old countries,” a user of a Mega Conspiracy site asked BATATO: “where can we see full movies?” BATATO replied “You need to go to our referrer sites. Such as www.thepiratecity.org or www.ovguide.com[.] There are the movie and series links. You cannot find them by searching on MV directly. That would cause us a lot of trouble ;-)"
is not the way to handle it.