{"id":18539,"date":"2020-06-02T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2578232"},"modified":"2020-06-02T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T12:12:00","slug":"spacex-launch-footage-was-taken-down-thanks-to-bogus-copyright-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/02\/spacex-launch-footage-was-taken-down-thanks-to-bogus-copyright-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launch footage was taken down thanks to bogus copyright claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The public domain video was restored to the public, but this happens a lot.<\/h2>\n<section class=\"post-meta\">\n<p>This weekend&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2020\/05\/todays-the-day-weather-permitting-america-is-returning-to-space\/\">launch<\/a>, in which SpaceX&#8217;s Falcon 9 rocket successfully propelled the Crew Dragon spacecraft and the two astronauts on board from Florida safely into space, was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2020\/05\/the-trampoline-is-working-spacex-returns-human-spaceflight-to-america\/\">amazing, awe-inspiring, and frankly, just plain cool<\/a>&nbsp;to watch. And here in the age of inexpensive, tiny high-definition cameras and streaming content, it&nbsp;<em>should<\/em>&nbsp;be easy to catch up on it if you missed it&mdash;or even if you just want to watch it again for fun. But for most of the weekend and into this morning, you couldn&#8217;t watch it at all, thanks to copyright content ID bots working overtime.<\/p>\n<p>The May 30 launch was streamed live to NASA&#8217;s YouTube channel and then&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pMsvr55cTZ0\">archived<\/a>, along with several shorter clips and highlights taken from the day-long livestream. NASA footage, like photo and video from other government agencies, is generally&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/guidelines\/index.html\">published into the public domain<\/a>, not under copyright, and other entities can mirror or rebroadcast it. National Geographic&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/2020\/05\/spacex-nasa-launch-human-astronauts-crew-dragon-international-space-station-demo-2\/\">also covered<\/a>&nbsp;the launch, and its footage incorporated some of the NASA content. Then things got stupid.<\/p>\n<p>By Sunday, the archival NASA video was no longer available to view, Twitter users&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lonseidman\/status\/1267076445073018884\">spotted<\/a>, because of a copyright claim from National Geographic. Attempts at that time to play back some of the NASA videos resulted in an error message saying, &#8220;Video unavailable: This video contains content from National Geographic, who has blocked it on copyright grounds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NASA got involved by Sunday and pushed the companies for a fix. &#8220;Over the last few days our team at NASA has been in touch with YouTube who escalated the issue,&#8221; NASA Communications Director Bettina Incl&aacute;n said&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BettinaInclan\/status\/1267274489596915712\">on Twitter<\/a>&nbsp;Sunday night. &#8220;We also have been in contact with NatGeo who is committed to releasing the claims for Demo-2 coverage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the end, it appears that YouTube, NASA, and National Geographic got their issues sorted out. By 9:30am Eastern time this morning, the videos were restored and playable, and you can once again watch the launch to your heart&#8217;s content.<\/p>\n<h2>It keeps happening<\/h2>\n<p>Unlike Saturday&#8217;s launch, however, this content ID claim was not a historic first but instead part of a familiar pattern. Almost this exact problem&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2012\/08\/how-youtube-lets-content-companies-claim-nasa-mars-videos\/\">occurred back in 2012<\/a>, when other businesses&mdash;in that case, the Scripps broadcast companies&mdash;improperly filed copyright claims against NASA hosting its own videos. The same happens to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2012\/08\/how-youtube-lets-content-companies-claim-nasa-mars-videos\/\">independent third parties<\/a>&nbsp;who use public domain NASA footage.<\/p>\n<p>YouTube introduced an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2012\/10\/youtube-finally-offers-a-meaningful-contentid-appeal-process\/\">appeals process<\/a>&nbsp;for automated content ID claims in late 2012. For users whose videos get flagged&mdash;even when those videos use&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2020\/06\/false-natgeo-copyright-claim-took-nasas-launch-video-down-this-weekend\/%22https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2018\/09\/how-contentid-knocked-down-decades-old-recordings-of-beethoven\/\">public domain content<\/a>&mdash;the process for having them restored can still be challenging and esoteric.<\/p>\n<p>That system is also exploitable. Last year, YouTube reached a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2019\/10\/man-agrees-to-pay-25000-for-abusing-youtubes-takedown-system\/\">$25,000 settlement<\/a>&nbsp;with a Nebraska man over allegations that he abused copyright claims to extort other YouTubers by threatening them with bogus takedown requests unless they paid him money.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2012\/08\/how-youtube-lets-content-companies-claim-nasa-mars-videos\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2012\/08\/how-youtube-lets-content-companies-claim-nasa-mars-videos\/<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>KATE COX <\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>KATE COX <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The public domain video was restored to the public, but this happens a lot. This weekend&rsquo;s&nbsp;launch, in which SpaceX&rsquo;s Falcon 9 rocket successfully propelled the Crew Dragon spacecraft and the two astronauts on board from Florida safely into space, was&nbsp;amazing, awe-inspiring, and frankly, just plain cool&nbsp;to watch. And here in the age of inexpensive, tiny &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/06\/02\/spacex-launch-footage-was-taken-down-thanks-to-bogus-copyright-claim\/\">Continue reading <span>SpaceX launch footage was taken down thanks to bogus copyright claim<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/02\/spacex-launch-footage-was-taken-down-thanks-to-bogus-copyright-claim\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SpaceX launch footage was taken down thanks to bogus copyright claim - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/02\/spacex-launch-footage-was-taken-down-thanks-to-bogus-copyright-claim\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SpaceX launch footage was taken down thanks to bogus copyright claim - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The public domain video was restored to the public, but this happens a lot. 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