The Lost World can be found again
My counterclaim against the takedown of the public domain film The Lost World, was successful. The video is back up on YouTube.
I’m inclined to let sleeping dogs lie, so I won’t say much more. I hope that someday a court ruling will clearly establish that restoring an out-of-copyright film to its original state doesn’t create a new copyright on it, but I’m not the person to pursue the fight.