• Disney retracts copyright claim on a YouTuber’s “Steamboat Willie” video, allowing it to be monetizable and shareable worldwide.
• The claim had previously demonetized the video and restricted its visibility and embedding options.
• This move by Disney may signal its recognition of “Steamboat Willie” being in the public domain.
Many jurisdictions have exceptions that if a work is out of copyright in it’s original jurisdiction, it is out of copyright
It is called the principle of the lesser term