YouTube State of Mind: Copyright Strikes & Gamed Subs

[PSRandh]

Hey everyone, I do videos for YouTube most of which have at this point been gameplay videos of Star Wars: Battlefront. I've recently run into something that makes me incredibly angry. I got three copyright strikes on a video where I am playing Star Wars: Battlefront because the music is owned by Sony Classical.

How come every YouTuber I've talked to who has gotten these strikes has had 150 subscribers or under? No big YouTubers are getting these, if they did we would not be having this problem! In addition to my subscribers getting gamed recently, this has just been a huge p**s off. I know some of you may want to see my channel, and in my most recent video I address all of this. Star Wars: Battlefront Gameplay #12 is the one that got the three copyright strikes.

The thing is though I only have 65 subscribers, there is no guarantee that this video will even amount to anything or change any of these stupid copyright claims. As in EA permits me to monetize these videos, Sony Classical permitted EA to use the songs in the game hence I am able to monetize the video as thousands of others have done.

I want to take a second to talk about my subscribers getting gamed. I had 127 subscribers and I went down to 77, then down to 60. All those subs were gamed by somebody who had access to my channel. I know there's a thread here about subscribers getting gamed - there's a chance that you may have lost those subscribers because somebody might have gained your account like my friend did using this sub4subnation or whatever it's called.

So why did I get three copyright strikes? This has made me quite p****d.

 

[Riddikore]

Moved here to the copyright section. Be sure to read some of the sticky posts in this section so you know the difference between claim and strike.

 

[PSRandh]

Moved here to the copyright section. Be sure to read some of the sticky posts in this section so you know the difference between claim and strike.

Guess I should've looked for a copyright section, yeah I meant claim as well. I guess I got it and strike mixed up.

 

[RyanH]

Your channel appears to be in good standing, so I'm assuming you're talking about Content ID claims. Copyright strikes are when your account is penalized and your video is taken offline from YouTube. If you feel these claims are invalid, dispute the claims and provide as much info as possible.

 

[SerjEpic]

Hey everyone, I do videos for YouTube most of which have at this point been gameplay videos of Star Wars: Battlefront. I've recently run into something that makes me incredibly angry. I got three copyright strikes on a video where I am playing Star Wars: Battlefront because the music is owned by Sony Classical.

How come every YouTuber I've talked to who has gotten these strikes has had 150 subscribers or under? No big YouTubers are getting these, if they did we would not be having this problem! In addition to my subscribers getting gamed recently, this has just been a huge p**s off. I know some of you may want to see my channel, and in my most recent video I address all of this. Star Wars: Battlefront Gameplay #12 is the one that got the three copyright strikes.

The thing is though I only have 65 subscribers, there is no guarantee that this video will even amount to anything or change any of these stupid copyright claims. As in EA permits me to monetize these videos, Sony Classical permitted EA to use the songs in the game hence I am able to monetize the video as thousands of others have done.

I want to take a second to talk about my subscribers getting gamed. I had 127 subscribers and I went down to 77, then down to 60. All those subs were gamed by somebody who had access to my channel. I know there's a thread here about subscribers getting gamed - there's a chance that you may have lost those subscribers because somebody might have gained your account like my friend did using this sub4subnation or whatever it's called.

So why did I get three copyright strikes? This has made me quite p****d.

Big Youtubers get protection from there networks and/or Youtube themselves. Sony Classical gave permission to EA not you usually big Youtubers check if they can use the music. I try to see if I can cut out the music.

 

[Tarmack]

No big YouTubers are getting these

How do you know this is true? Outside of a blocked video, there's no way for a viewer to know whether a video is claimed.

To expand on that, since you're so p****d, imagine how p****d the artist must be that people are using their music without paying to broadcast it. You need to get the heck down from that high horse thinking that you have some inalienable right to use other peoples' creative works for free without consequence.

Further, a ContentID match is not a punishment. It is an acknowledgement that material in the video doesn't belong to you. You are not harmed by this, you simply cannot earn revenue from it if that's the option they chose to claim.

Getting by with video games on YouTube is pretty easy. Turn off in game music before recording and remove cutscenes before uploading. Those two steps avoid 99% of all ContentID claims.

 

[PSRandh]

How do you know this is true? Outside of a blocked video, there's no way for a viewer to know whether a video is claimed.

To expand on that, since you're so p****d, imagine how p****d the artist must be that people are using their music without paying to broadcast it. You need to get the heck down from that high horse thinking that you have some inalienable right to use other peoples' creative works for free without consequence.

Further, a ContentID match is not a punishment. It is an acknowledgement that material in the video doesn't belong to you. You are not harmed by this, you simply cannot earn revenue from it if that's the option they chose to claim.

Getting by with video games on YouTube is pretty easy. Turn off in game music before recording and remove cutscenes before uploading. Those two steps avoid 99% of all ContentID claims.

Woah. Okay, do you want me to expand? The music is owned by Electronic Arts, who had Gordy Haab remix and transitory music which in its original state is owned by Sony Classical. Electronic Arts' copyright terms explicitly state that commercialized YouTube channels are free to use their games. However, thank you for your input, I have learned a lot about YouTube copyright claims and strikes because of all of this.