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The original was posted on /r/linustechtips by /u/BongoIsLife on 2025-07-21 22:11:52+00:00.


Perhaps this could be discussed in The Wan Show?

Franlab held a livestream this Sunday commemorating the Apolo 11 anniversary and within less than an hour the video was removed altogether because it got several copyright claims. She showed a few old NASA films from her personal archive that contain public-domain music, but Sony and others have used excerpts from those films in commercial works and their automated systems file claims as if the IP was theirs. Some times, artists have used samples in their recordings, which then means posting the original piece will be flagged as copyright infringement. As usual, there's very little hope an appeal will revert that because it'll likely never been seen by a human either at Sony or at YouTube.

This is not the first time it has happened, Fran has needed to mute music in old films in the public domain posted to her channel, the kind that would be shown at schools and whatnot, because they keep being detected as having copyrighted material. Companies are effectively claiming ownership over compositions they do not own just because they used it once. Even parts of historical public speeches have led to claims this way, it's like a corporation reserves itself the right to block anyone from posting parts of I Have a Dream or the like because they used it first.

YouTube's copyright system being broken and abused is not at all new, but this is a side of it that rarely gets brought up.

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