One data point: I tried submitting &quot;His Girl Friday&quot;, one of the most famous movies to have fallen into public domain, from the copy hosted on archive.org:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;his_girl_friday" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;his_girl_friday</a><p>As soon as it was finished uploading, I was notified that a copyright owner (Sony Pictures, which I guess owns the remnants of the defunct studio that produced His Girl Friday) had issued a takedown notice. Amusingly, a minute later, I received the usual &quot;Congratulations, your video is now on YouTube!&quot; email that you get when successfully publishing a video.<p>After getting a takedown notice, you have the option to dispute it, which I did, providing evidence that His Girl Friday is indeed in the public domain. A short time later, I got a note saying that my dispute was rejected, and that I could choose to fight it -- but that the decision would be up to the rights holder (Sony). However, if the rights owner chose again to deny me, my YouTube account would be penalized and I could possibly lose uploading capabilities.<p>I didn&#x27;t really care enough to fight it (though I&#x27;ve kept the screenshots and emails to document the process)...anyone else get to this stage and succeed (or fail)?