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Houston, We Have A -- Copyright -- Problem

Posted by BernardSwiss on · 3 comments
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Parker Higgins has a troubling story over at Medium about how he received a bogus copyright takedown on a recording of the famous "Houston, we have a problem" audio snippet from the Apollo 13 mission, which Higgins had uploaded to his Soundcloud page. As Higgins notes, the audio is clearly, without any doubt, in the public domain and free from any and all copyright restrictions -- yet it was still taken down. This is particularly stupid on a variety of levels...

Perhaps more annoying, as Higgins notes, is that the reasons that Soundcloud gives for disputing the takedown... don't apply in this situation, because they all assume copyright... As Higgins notes this shows the rather nasty assumptions of "permission" culture that everything must have a copyright and everything must be licensed:

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Comments (3)

tuxchick ·
Nah, this time it's you.

Kidding :) All fixed.
BernardSwiss Story submitter ·
Yes -- it is my fault. By now I should be well-conditioned, and trim that "extra" letter 's' from the urls, entirely by unthinking reflex...

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