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Since it says Copyright Strike and not DMCA takedown we can assume quite simply that this was the automated system at YouTube doing it's thing.
Steamboat Willie is in their system as Disney's, but its now public domain. As this is the first time that's happened whatever was in place (or wasn't if it was forgotten about) to remove the Auto-Detektion failed to start ignoring Steamboat Willie and the video was struck.
Disney, being a big corporation, took a few days to get that news filtered to whoever can release that kind of thing.
This story seems like yet another example of YouTubes system being less than ideal, not one of Disney being counts (this time)
This makes the most sense.
When I release music through distributors, there's always an option to enter it into contentid so YouTube can do claims on my behalf. This is all automated and I don't assume YouTube takes the copyright lifespan into account.
If we extrapolate this to Disney's use case, they would have had to actively locate it in their contentid entries to YouTube and then remove it that day and hope YouTube refreshes their contentid system timely enough. It's not very far fetched that someone messed up in this chain. So I would honestly give Disney the benefit of the doubt on this one.
Don't get me wrong, they have an awful relationship with the copyright but let's make damn sure we criticise them for the right things, otherwise they will only learn that they will get shit on either way and stop thinking about being assholes.