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

  • blusterydayve26@midwest.social
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    10 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.)

    • topinambour_rex@lemmy.world
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      10 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