Walled Culture<p><strong>Copyright madness: YouTube seems to doubt whether Shakespeare is in the public domain</strong></p><p>One of the darker threads of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) is how complex copyright enforcement systems can be abused, for example by sending Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown requests for material that is perfectly legal. A recent post on the Public Citizen blog offers an extreme example of this blight. Here’s the summary of what happened:</p><p>When […]</p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/counternotice/" target="_blank">#counternotice</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/dmca/" target="_blank">#dmca</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/google/" target="_blank">#google</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/infringement/" target="_blank">#infringement</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/non-profit/" target="_blank">#nonProfit</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/public-domain/" target="_blank">#publicDomain</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/registration/" target="_blank">#registration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/shakespeare/" target="_blank">#shakespeare</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/takedown/" target="_blank">#takedown</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/us-copyright-office/" target="_blank">#usCopyrightOffice</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/youtube/" target="_blank">#youtube</a></p><p><a href="https://walledculture.org/copyright-madness-youtube-seems-to-doubt-whether-shakespeare-is-in-the-public-domain/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">walledculture.org/copyright-ma</span><span class="invisible">dness-youtube-seems-to-doubt-whether-shakespeare-is-in-the-public-domain/</span></a></p>