[jcranmer]

> All works first published or released before January 1, 1926, have lost their copyright protection, effective January 1, 2021.

That's not the entire story. Sound recordings are a separate category, and pre-1923 sound recordings have a special clause that means they don't enter public domain until 2022.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1401

[gundmc]

So this is WAI per current copyright laws?

[jcranmer]

I strongly suspect that Youtube makes no attempt to assess whether or not the claimed copyright is in fact in the public domain, so I wouldn't quite call it "working as intended." But, for the next few months, it's not wrong.

[cybersol]

For now, at least until they extend it another 100 years.

[tablespoon]

> For now, at least until they extend it another 100 years.

I don't think there's the political will to keep doing that.

https://creativecommons.org/2018/01/15/copyright-term-extens...