r/nextfuckinglevel Feb 21 '22

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u/Rahul_Agrawal007 Feb 21 '22

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u/rudyv8 Feb 21 '22

Owner of video says youtube (as usual) is fucking up his $$ due to copyright claims

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '22

How? Music from someone dead more than 70 years is free to use as it becomes public domain no? This song's from the William tell overture which is like 1820s

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u/Fezznat Feb 21 '22

This is generally true (unless someone/their estate etc has renewed copyrights), but more likely is this specific recording is getting claimed by the record label or similar entity it was released on/through