What about Gay Steamboat Willie?
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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 was doing it in the US as well to at least one creator I know of.
…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.
