• 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.
2024 the year Disney became less evil 🤯
Not really. They are literally just following the law
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Nope. They filed the DMCA strike after the IP entered the public domain. Scumbaggery as usual.
Following the law doesn’t lessen one’s evilness.
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.