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I have an Android app which contained (among other things) two works which are in the public domain in the US - one is 93 years old and one is 95 years old. A
by Ologn 11y ago
I have an Android app which contained (among other things) two works which are in the public domain in the US - one is 93 years old and one is 95 years old.
A media conglomerate sent a DMCA notice to Google for my app, and Google took it down. Then my Admob was cut off for the app (luckily I had ad mediation). The DMCA notice said the 93 and 95 year old works were in copyright in some country, although they were not specific as to which country exactly.
I had to go through a whole rigmarole to get my app back on Google Play, which almost didn't happen (I had to appeal). I removed those two works and shut off access for my app to Australia, the UK, India and Canada. Not that this was required but I can't go through this again and lose the income.
It wasn't Disney, but Disney is big in supporting these laws. Yet Disney started off by ripping off Alice in Wonderland in a cartoon. Disney made his money ripping off a book published not long before he rips it off, now they have a media monopoly and want to shut the gates up behind them for eternity. Which is not even possible, because the nature of the Internet, mobile etc. is such that this doesn't work any more. It's an old model which does not and can not work and will not work as things are and as they are going to be, yet there will be a lot of waste and problems as they continue to try to do this.
- Reedx 11y agoYeah, it's especially egregious re: Disney who's benefited so greatly from public works. Snow White, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Pinocchio, Sleeping Beauty, etc, etc.
- exodust 11y agoWhy not mention what the works are?
- deciplex 11y ago+1 Unless you legally restricted from doing so, there is no reason to protect these assholes. Tell everyone who did this and for which works.