San Diego Comic-Con, like almost all major conferences, conventions, and gatherings in 2020, has had to switch to an online-only virtual format this year due to the continuing pandemic. Media companies that generally have a large presence at events like SDCC worked hard to create alternative streaming content, but it seems they forgot to tell their copyright bots.
ViacomCBS started today with a one-hour dashboard showing your current and upcoming amount of current Star Trek Projects: Discovery, Picard, Bottom coversand Strange new worlds.
The panel included the cast and producers of Discovery doing a reading of the first act of the season 2 finale, “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2”. The “enhanced” reading included sound effects, effects shots, and storyboard images meant to reinforce actors as they delivered lines from their living rooms and home offices.
Even if the presentation didn’t seem like an actual episode of Discovery to the homey viewer, it apparently sounded close enough: after Star Trek The virtual panel of the universe began to watch viewers begin to lose access to the broadcast. In place of the video, YouTube displayed a content ID warning that read: “Video not available – This video contains CBS CID content, which has been copyright-blocked.”
After being locked for about 20 minutes, the panel was restored and the virtual panel recording has no gaps in the playback.
Obviously, CBS would not benefit from disconnecting its own marketing material on purpose; It seems highly likely that the software has simply listened to a match, made a match, and issued a warning until a human can override and fix it. Unfortunately, it appears that a number of media companies will have to rush to correct the mistake in turn: Two hours later, io9 reporter Beth Elderkin tweeted that a live feed from the Cartoon Network panel went offline due to a rights claim. author Turner, Cartoon Network parent company.
