Netflix files copyright claims against tweets criticizing movie, trailer

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Netflix is apparently fighting controversy about a film on its platform by issuing copyright takedown requests against tweets that include negative commentary about the movie, according to a new report.

TorrentFreak reported today that Netflix has sent dozens of takedown requests to Twitter targeting specific posts that criticize the movie Cuties (Mignonnes), a French film written and directed by Maimouna Doucoure and released in the United States on Netflix in September. While the tweets are still live (except where the original posters deleted them), the videos attached to the post now display messages reading, "This media has been disabled in response to a report by the copyright owner."

Why this movie?

Cuties is a coming-of-age drama about a Black girl in France on the cusp of adolescence. She rebels against her immigrant parents' traditional culture, in which women remain quietly covered up at home, by going overboard in the opposite direction-taking to dance and social media to express a sexuality she is too young to understand the implications of and too new to Western culture to know how to frame it all. Doucoure won a directing award for the film at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival in January.

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