“At this point, I don’t even care if they were issued under authorization by Sony or not – I just need to reach a live human being to try to resolve this without copyright strikes.”
The Museum of Classic Chicago Television spent 16 years on YouTube and drew over 80 million views of old broadcasts with the commercials intact. Markscan, an Indian anti-piracy firm working for Sony, hit it with strikes over 1960s Bewitched episodes. Markscan once filed a DMCA takedown against Sony’s own website. A nonprofit archive dies on a robot’s say-so, and nobody at Sony picks up the phone.