Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2015 November 3

= November 3 =

Public domain...but copyrighted on Web?
Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, all works from 1922 or older, including movies, are supposed to be in public domain. Yet I've tried to watch several movies from that period online, and they have been censored from YouTube because of the copyright scare, nor are they available on Internet Archive.

Why is their online availability such an issue if they're supposed to be public domain? Theskinnytypist (talk) 01:10, 3 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Your "scare" link pointed to a nonexistent section. I have corrected it to what I presume you meant. --70.49.170.168 (talk) 07:17, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
 * It is not only films, but public domain music and other content as well. After cases like Viacom International Inc. v. YouTube, Inc. and other such copyright infringement lawsuits, YouTube implemented this system called Content ID which is suppose to automatically detect copyright violations. But it is poor in verifying if the content is actually copyrighted or really in the public domain. An example can be found here, where someone used the ContentID system to "claim" the content of NASA public domain videos. The executive at YouTube/Google seem to be content that the Content ID works in most cases (if a YouTube user disagrees with a decision by Content ID, the can file an appeal), and seem to have no plans to have each and every video actually checked by a human. And as a result of these lawsuits, I think they have developed the habit to "shoot [take down the video] first, ask questions later". Zzyzx11 (talk) 10:17, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

hall and oates article
the list of musicians doesnt cover mike mccarty, who played bass on the hall oates album. he is credited on the album cover, but not in the wiki article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.115.79.46 (talk) 16:08, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
 * You can add him yourself. --Viennese Waltz 16:16, 3 November 2015 (UTC)