• Disney retracts copyright claim on a YouTuber’s “Steamboat Willie” video, allowing it to be monetizable and shareable worldwide.
• The claim had previously demonetized the video and restricted its visibility and embedding options.
• This move by Disney may signal its recognition of “Steamboat Willie” being in the public domain.
Now all disney needs to do is backdown from ruining every single major movie release and franchise and stop firing all of their most experienced animators and maybe we’ll get decent entertainment from this god awful company again!
Their recognition doesn’t change the fact that it’s in the public domain
Fuck off Disney.
Disney followed the law is news. This is wild.
“allowing it” as if disney owns the public domain.
Here’s a link to the video in question: https://youtu.be/JMYJxCj6pmI
I didn’t think it was very funny at first, but the “no gag reflex? no wonder Goofy likes you” got me pretty good.
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Since more and more works arrive into public domain, are there aggregate sites/torrents with fresh “releases”?
HANDS OFF OUR WILLIE, DISNEY!
I’m having a hard time comprehending how this is a “win” when Disney had to voluntarily retract their claim with Youtube.
The short is in public domain. It is the goddamn motherfucking law. Disney does not have any say in the matter. We should not, and in fact do not, have to rely on them being “nice.” Not anymore. That’s the point.
Fuck them, in the ear, with an egg beater.
2024 the year Disney became less evil 🤯
What? No. They tried to do something that’s outright illegal and only stopped because enough people called them out on it.
It’s not illegal to file a false copyright claim, unfortunately.
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
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.
Damages first and foremost, if you miss out on money because of false claims, there you go. If you lost money and they did something wrong, you can sue for compensation and/or to make them stop
Additionally, if you can prove they’re doing it maliciously and knowingly in an effort to stop you from doing business, tortuous interference.
Legal eagle has a video on it not too long ago, it was about a YouTuber making copyright claims against another YouTuber criticizing them, I think the whole thing was related to elden ring?
He goes into way more detail and different situations, but the takeaway is that there is a theoretical path to do this
