Originally Posted by aroundtheworld

The pirates of YouTube | Technology | guardian.co.uk



Interesting read. Apparently YouTube has no procedural mechanism to facilitate uncopyrighted public domain works, so when a media giant falsely issues a takedown claim against such a work, the uploader has no way to contest the claim and restore the work.

ContentID has been effective at monetizing uploaded content for the rightsholders -- 90% of those using it choose to monetize rather than remove their content -- but YouTube clearly needs some sort of method to defend against a takedown claim on the grounds of the public domain.