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Can nobody take a fucking joke anymore!!!:burn:from www.smh.com.au
Tourism spoof not bloody funny
By David Braithwaite
March 27, 2006 - 3:47PM
Dan Ilic, 24, produced a parody of the ad, changing the jingle to "Where the f---ing hell are you?" and inserting negative images of Australian life.
The video was viewed about 30,000 times on video website youtube.com. However, Mr Ilac removed it from his website, Downwind Media, after complaints from Tourism Australia, which last week described the ad as "mean spirited and humourless".
Tourism Australia lawyers contacted Mr Ilac on Friday and demanded the video's removal.
"Their lawyers said the music was infringing their copyright, but they were just trying to find a way to get it off the site," Downwind Media's Dan Ilic said.
"We replied saying we had commissioned an independent track with a different tune and tempo, but they said because it sounded similar it infringed copyright.
"I think it's ridiculous."
Four new remixes were posted on the company's website yesterday with a message proclaiming "all is not lost".
"We have remade and re-mixed the song to be less like TA's song," the message says.
"As a result we have four new special edition versions for you to download."
Tourism Australia had not complained about the remixed versions, Mr Ilic said.
I think the parody was brilliant, fucking bully lawyers.
I saw them first here on BOS anyway.