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YouTube demonetizes public domain 'Steamboat Willie' video after copyright claim::undefined

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[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 210 points 10 months ago (21 children)

The article hides it in the update.

This feels significant: Disney has officially retracted a copyright claim on a third-party's Steamboat Willie video on YouTube.

It's not significant, that's how it works. It went into the public domain and the copyright strike process took time to adjust. Disney was never going to fight this.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 55 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Hell half of these damn copyright claims are automated bots. I guess they forgot to turn this one off.

[–] blusterydayve26@midwest.social 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This is significant because this is the first time in the history of copyright bots that they've ever had to remove a work from the bot's registry. Given how rarely it happens, the code to do that probably won't even be worth the cost of writing for another decade or two: some guy at YouTube will just add a manual exception for that video. (And that's assuming the best of intention and action from the copy-vio-bot sellers which is unlikely, given their existing behavior.)

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
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