Comment on Disney backs down from 'Steamboat Willie' YouTube copyright claim

lurch@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• cralder@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not really. They are literally just following the law

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  • DigitalPaperTrail@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    so less evil then

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    • voracitude@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nope. They filed the DMCA strike after the IP entered the public domain. Scumbaggery as usual.

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    • ech@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Following the law doesn’t lessen their evilness.

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• brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What? No. They tried to do something that’s outright illegal and only stopped because enough people called them out on it.

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  • ech@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s not illegal to file a false copyright claim, unfortunately.

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    • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s not illegal in the way it’s not illegal to violate a copyright

      You can sue them for it though, or you could if there wasn’t such a huge power imbalance

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      • ech@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Sue them for what? Disney can make as many copyright claims with Youtube as they want. There are no laws regulating that. That is purely a Youtube decision.

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