By John Glenday

A painstaking Twitter recreation of 80s Tom Cruise vehicle Top Gun has been forced offline by lawyers representing film studio paramount, over concerns that the project breached its copyright.

A takedown notice issued by the studio saw Twitter delete the account of user @555uhz who had been posting subtitled still frames from the movie at a rate of two per hour to recreate the film in micro-blog form.

Despite the Twitter version being heavily edited and non-commercial the Paramount notice stated: “No one is authorized to copy, reproduce, distribute, or otherwise use Top Gun without the express written permission of Paramount.”

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Source: The Drum