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A parody; also called a spoof, send-up, take-off, lampoon, play on, caricature, or joke, is a work created to imitate, make fun of, or comment on an original work—its subject, author, style, or some other target—by means of satiric or ironic imitation.

Downfall: BP refinery workers fired over Hitler parody wins back job

Feb 16,2020 7:18 am

Bruno Ganz portrayal of Adolf Hitler in the downfall has spawned countless parodies

A BP-refinery-workers-to-back win in Australia successfully, his job after he was dismissed, for a satire on the society in a well-known Hitler-meme.

Scott Tracey used the popular meme, from the 2004 movie downfall, the depiction of the scenes of company wage negotiations, posting on a closed Facebook group.

He later lost a wrongful termination case, ruled the video offensive was.

found But an appeal judgment on Friday, it was unreasonable to say that the Parody compared to the BP Manager to Nazis.

"Anyone with knowledge of the meme could not seriously consider that the use of the clip was to some place with Hitler or Nazis"

The meme takes the sinking of the climax scene, in which Hitler faced his generals in his Bunker and replaced the subtitles with the subjects of the Parody .

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BP Mr Tracey released in the year 2018 after deeming the video to be "highly offensive and inappropriate," a position, the order in the original unfair dismissal case.

But Mr Tracey argued he had not offend the intention of someone, and that the video was meant to be humorous. He added that it does not identify you, BP or someone special.

In siding with him, The Fair Work Commission, the meme was culturally dissociat[ed] to be "" of real events.

The Commission added that it had been used "thousands of times over a period of More Than a decade, for the purpose of creating, in a completely original way, a satirical representation of contemporary situations".

"What it really does is to compare, for satirical purposes, The Position of BP had reached, in the enterprise bargaining process in September 2018 to The Situation of Hitler and the Nazi regime in April 1945," it added.

Australian Workers Union spokesman Daniel Walton welcomed the decision and said the employees should be able Pamphlet bosses in their own time.

"The Day that would be lost very gloomy day for Australia," he said.

Mr Tracey lawyer Kamal Farouque said the local Nine Newspapers: "He's really happy to return to his job and is Looking Forward to working again, in the case of the BP refinery. "



Source of news: bbc.com

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