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YouTube Still Blocking Access To Steamboat Willie On Behalf Of Disney In Some Countries (www.techdirt.com)

submitted 10 months ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 40 points 10 months ago (1 children)

…assuming Poland does respect “the rule of the shorter term”, it seems like Steamboat Willie should be free there as well.

It’s also not clear what triggered this. It might just be YouTube’s ContentID autoflagging stuff, and no one bothered to update the system to recognize that Steamboat Willie is in the public domain. Or, maybe Disney hasn’t updated things on its end (or perhaps it only did so in the US).

What are the chances they’re purposefully sending takedowns? Not hard to believe public domaining procedures aren’t in their muscle memory.

[–] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Does ContentID even have a concept of copyright limits?

[–] Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

It doesn't have a concept of anything really. It just scans against a database of content that certain people have access to populate. Mostly it's large media companies but also somehow a bunch of very tiny rights management companies that people can sign up for to protect their content or commit fraud by claiming remixes and other people's works as their own.