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Houston, We Have a Public Domain Problem

posted by LaminatorX on Friday June 27 2014, @12:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the Tragedy-of-the-Commons dept.

Acrimonious Coward writes:

A bogus SoundCloud takedown reveals a much larger issue with private sites and the public domain. The sound in question--the famous "Houston, we have a problem" snippet of the Apollo 13 mission--is incontrovertibly available to all, for any use, without copyright restrictions. The fact that it's been yanked from a SoundCloud page, though, is a sad demonstration of how completely many online services have swallowed the fallacy that "unauthorized" means "unacceptable."

 
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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by multisync on Friday June 27 2014, @02:02PM

    by multisync (4002) on Friday June 27 2014, @02:02PM (#60853)

    That option "The copyright work has been mistakenly identified" may be appropriate in this particular case, but the author is correct that the lack of the options "the work is in the public domain" and "I am making Fair Use of the work" are necessary in order to be consistent with US copyright law. The fact that those options are missing is likely an indication of the influence the media companies wield over companies like SoundCloud, and that should be of concern to everyone.

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