ROME (AFP) – The developer of iMussolini, a popular iPhone application of the fascist dictator's speeches, said he took down the application from the Apple online store after legal threats from Cinecitta Luce, who says it owns the copyright for the videos.
Luigi Marino, a 25-year-old developer from Naples in southern Italy, said he called Cinecitta Luce, the public company from whose archives the videos are taken, and decided he "preferred taking it down" in order to verify with his lawyer whether the application did not infringe copyright.
Marino said he was not worried about the application which offers video, audio and text staying "two or three days out of the app store", and would rather verify he is on safe legal grounds before putting it back on sale.
Cinecitta Luce said in a statement on Wednesday they would sue whoever improperly sells content over which they have copyright and described iMussolini as an "instrumental and commercial use of Mussolini speeches that is particularly odious", ANSA news agency reported.
The application had been a hit among Italian iPhone users, selling more than 1,000 per day during the first week and quickly becoming the best-selling iPhone application on Apple's Italian online store.
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