Hollywood is Cutting the Leg Out from Under Chickasha, Oklahoma

There's is a giant art installation in Chickasha, Oklahoma dedicated to one of the most hilarious and nationally treasured Christmas movies in America. It's a giant leg lamp from A Christmas Story.

It stands fifty feet tall and adds a little something-something to the so-called Christmas Town, Oklahoma holiday season every year. But Hollywood - specifically Warner Brothers - has sent a stern request to tear down the giant leg lamp on the grounds it violates the studio's copyright of the movie.

Pure shenanigans.

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While they claim it's copyright infringement, it's important to note that the giant leg lamp paying homage to the film is a public art installment and nobody is making money on it. It's 100% free to visit and experience with your family, and the only things sold are officially licensed goods from Warner Bros.

What gives?

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This may end up in court, and many Oklahomans are saying "Let it." We're not a state willing to be intimidated by a bunch of rumored pedophiles in Hollyweird, California.

It's also super weird that an industry and company built on the public perception of art is threatening to have a piece of public art that is free and open to the public be removed.

This may be a line in the sand Oklahoma can not only draw but enforce in mass.