Ethan and Hila Klein, The people behind the YouTube channel h3h3 Productions, have won a legal battle over copyright in online video.
The pair were sued after making fun of a video by another film-maker, Matt Hosseinzadeh.
They had used clips of his film, which he claimed was copyright infringement. In their video, they watched Mr Hosseinzadeh’s parkour video and made fun of it.
But a judge ruled the Kleins’ video criticising his work was “fair use as a matter of law”.
Ethan and Hila Klein have an over 4 million subscribers to their YouTube channel.
