What about Gay Steamboat Willie?
…assuming Poland does respect “the rule of the shorter term”, it seems like Steamboat Willie should be free there as well.
It’s also not clear what triggered this. It might just be YouTube’s ContentID autoflagging stuff, and no one bothered to update the system to recognize that Steamboat Willie is in the public domain. Or, maybe Disney hasn’t updated things on its end (or perhaps it only did so in the US).
What are the chances they’re purposefully sending takedowns? Not hard to believe public domaining procedures aren’t in their muscle memory.
Does ContentID even have a concept of copyright limits?
It doesn’t have a concept of anything really. It just scans against a database of content that certain people have access to populate. Mostly it’s large media companies but also somehow a bunch of very tiny rights management companies that people can sign up for to protect their content or commit fraud by claiming remixes and other people’s works as their own.
It could be not on purpose.
Did they even build their system with the idea that copyright can expire? This is the first major video work to expire.
In a lot of companies this would be the first feature to be given low priority and sent to the bottom of the backlog. To be done “when we have the time”
It’s not the first major video work to enter the public domain. Many have entered it before now due to some eccentricities of copyright law.
The 1968 film Night of the Living Dead, for example, entered the public domain immediately upon release because they forgot to include a copyright notice in the film which was a requirement at the time.
The only reason this one is so significant is because it’s Disney’s property.
Also Winnie the Pooh a few years ago
Only the first literary version, not the 1961 Disney film version (they licensed the rights). So you have to be very careful with what you use. The first book with Tigger included only hit the public domain this year for instance.
youtube should just turn off geolocking for one week. i bet the earth will continue rotating at nearly the same speed
So Disney being Disney.
Can Disney just ******* ***** ** ***** already
It was doing it in the US as well to at least one creator I know of.
Seems like those countries are not eligible to use the year 2024 in their dates, then.
