As you well know, the Steamboat Willie version of Mickey Mouse is now in the public domain in the US, meaning you can use a version of that Mickey (or any other newly public domain work) in our Gam…
…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.
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.
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.