Wow. Just a SCENE from a 55 year old movie that most Americans have seen (and includes an ad to buy or rent the entire movie) and they put up a copyright claim and it's given the OK to block. Ridiculous.
Oops, sorry.
I know most F95 members are in USA, but I did not expect it to be blocked, I am in Europe, and did not think about testing before.
Yep, definitively must be some linked to the rights, probably someone got the redistribution rights without limits, so they extended them to "Internet streaming", even if at the time it did not exist.
If I had known, I would have linked to the original language version, I guess (but I may be wrong) that would not have been blocked in USA.
Thoguh I am a bit surprised - I know this was one of the Leone movies that was well known even in USA (well, the end duel has been reproduced tons of times, Tarantino was very explicit in copying it and did not try to hide it, he considers it an homage), but I did not expect it was as known as you suggest.
P.S. In the case anybody wonders about that reference to "original language", no, the original language was not English, the first Western by Leone that was made thinking specifically about the English speaking market was "One Upon A Time in the West". For the others, even if he used English-speaking actors like Clint Eastwood, they were in Italian, you can see it in how in the uncut "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly" ends (let's try again
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), at the end, in Italian (though also a Spanish speaker, or a Portuguese speaker should get it) the "mothernal reference" :-D is perfectly understandable and fades perfectly in with the music by Morricone.