Comment on Disney backs down from 'Steamboat Willie' YouTube copyright claim
brsrklf@jlai.lu 10 months agoWhat? No. They tried to do something that’s outright illegal and only stopped because enough people called them out on it.
Comment on Disney backs down from 'Steamboat Willie' YouTube copyright claim
brsrklf@jlai.lu 10 months agoWhat? No. They tried to do something that’s outright illegal and only stopped because enough people called them out on it.
ech@lemm.ee 10 months ago
It’s not illegal to file a false copyright claim, unfortunately.
theneverfox@pawb.social 10 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
ech@lemm.ee 10 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.