No I'm 95% sure it isn't a bug. The video you linked to is an emulator playing the game, not the real system. Most emulators don't emulate the machine correctly, and some have options to turn on/off the sprite flicker which is used in the video.
The real system flickers when 8 sprites are on the same line and the 9th sprite wants to be drawn. Since RetroCopy is deeply emulating the internals it is trying to be as close to the real thing as possible.