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Thank you for your public domain uploads. However, it would probably be best to encode in AV1. It offers higher quality per byte at the expense of encoding time. When you upload works right as they turn into the PD, it makes it likely that people all over the world are going to flock to Commons/Wikipedia and download whatever is available, and further proliferate it. It's hard to put the genie back in the bottle. For "upload once, read many" use cases on works as popular as these, AV1 should be used. See e.g.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_talk:Steamboat_Willie_(1928)_by_Walt_Disney.webm#Better_Quality Anonymous-232 (talk) 15:51, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Why did you reupload on January 3rd the movies I uploaded on January 1st? Yann (talk) 15:42, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What do you mean? It looks like both were uploaded on January 1, mine about 7 hours earlier. hinnk (talk) 21:23, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, The films is available on IA, but failed on V2C. Yann (talk) 15:47, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good timing then, I was just getting ready to upload a copy of it. hinnk (talk) 21:25, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for adding the film fragment from The Case of Lena Smith (1929). I just restored a few of the movie stills that were delinked a few years age.

I've tried to upload material from Utube without success. For example, this 1894 Edison short, Fun in a Chinese Laundry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN8ohCW00fs

I'd like to add it to Josef von Sternberg's autobiography of the same name, and from which the director derived its title. 36hourblock (talk) 19:22, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Library of Congress has a much nicer transfer. I'll work on preparing an upload from that. hinnk (talk) 01:14, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@36hourblock It's available now at File:Robetta and Doretto, No. 2 (1894).webm. hinnk (talk) 06:13, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done! 36hourblock (talk) 16:05, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

👋 Hi there!

One thing I like to do is upload newly public domain'd works to YouTube. Most of the time, there already exists several other copies, but I just like doing it anyways. (It feels like I'm sticking it to Disney and others.)

Recently, I tried re-uploading your uploads of Blackmail (1929 film), both the silent and sound versions. Both were immediately claimed by StudioCanal whose only claim is (I believe) that they did a restoration of the film. Annoyingly, they've blocked the videos worldwide.

If you don't mind me asking, where did you find these files? I'd love to use whatever resource you found (if that's the case) in order to dispute the copyright claims. jac _roe 02:01, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Those came from videos of the BFI/StudioCanal restoration. The Internet Archive has copies of the silent and sound versions, although both were uploaded well before the film entered the public domain in the U.S. The silent version obviously doesn't include the copyrighted soundtrack, and the sound version comes from the 1.33:1 talkie version, encoded to display at a different aspect ratio to account for the stretched image. Duke Law School's Center for the Study of the Public Domain includes Blackmail in its list of works entering the U.S. public domain in 2025.

Hitchcock's work remains under copyright in the UK (and in most of the world). Wikimedia projects have generally contended that faithful restorations do not establish a new U.S. copyright, but I can't speak to YouTube's policies and requirements, which may be more restrictive. hinnk (talk) 02:36, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]