Comment on YouTube demonetizes public domain 'Steamboat Willie' video after copyright claim

• blusterydayve26@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.)

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  • topinambour_rex@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Every year there is plenty of stuff, like movies which end in the public domain. Certainly not the first time. Just the first time you thought/heard of it

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  • LWD@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not Winnie the Pooh?

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• RedditWanderer@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Exactly, Disney never intended to make trouble with this, and this isn’t a significant historical win for copyright activists.

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