Editing Triumph of the Will (section)

===Germany===
Riefenstahl initially stated that the Nazi Party held the copyright for the film. She stated that she held the copyright as it was her own creation despite funding from the party after meeting with her lawyer Eugen Krämer in August 1949.{{sfn|Niven|2018|pp=73}}

Riefenstahl filed lawsuits against two postwar documentaries which had incorporated footage of ''Triumph of the Will''. The first lawsuit occurred in 1954 against Wolfgang Hartwig, producer of ''[[Bis fünf nach zwölf – Adolf Hitler und das 3. Reich|Bis fünf nach zwölf]]''. Hartwig argued that the rights belonged to the state, but reportedly eventually paid compensation to Riefenstahl, who donated it to a charity dedicated to returning [[prisoners of war]].{{sfn|Rother|2003|p=148}} Her second lawsuit against Swedish producer [[Erwin Leiser]]'s ''Mein Kampf'' in 1960 was enveloped in greater public debate about the copyright and morality of works produced during the Nazi regime.{{sfn|Rother|2003|p=150}} The case was settled against her in 1969.{{sfn|Rother|2003|p=149}}

In a judgement by the [[Federal Court of Justice]] on 29 December 1966, the copyright to the film was transferred to the Federal Republic of Germany as the legal successor of Nazi Germany.{{sfn|Meyer|2007|p=179}} These rights are administered by the federally owned Transit-Film GmbH based in Munich, although it was contractually regulated in 1974 that any public screening until 2004 had to be approved by Riefenstahl and that she received 70% of all revenues.{{sfn|Meyer|2007|p=184}}