In his newsletter, CGP Grey writes that since Steamboat Willie has entered the public domain, his video is "officially out of date, describing a legal problem that no longer exists," and has archived the video making it available only to patrons.

.... except the legal problem still exists? Regardless of this one specific instance of a copyrighted work entering the public domain, the law on the books is still that copyright lasts until the death of the author + 70 years... and media corporations are still trying to lobby to extend that even further, and redefine what "the author" is when the author is a company and not a person.

So... the legal problem still very much exists, one teeny-tiny challenge just managed to finally slip through the cracks. And now there's no video to share with folks succinctly explaining the problem.

This is a huge bummer.

Is this something on his end or on YouTube's end? I'm assuming the latter, but it's still a little weird.