Striking down videos.

[HyperionZ]

Why are you guys striking down videos on YouTube when your game songs start playing on them?
Why bother making a background music if no one can make a video playing it and will just get striked anyways for the song playing??
Don't really like the attitude these developers have and I sense a negative outlook in the near future.

[puff1n]

the world you live in seems like a simple place..

[HyperionZ]

Originally posted by puff1n:

the world you live in seems like a simple place..

Oh no, I'm not the one getting striked, it's some YouTubers who seem to be playing the game and having their videos striked because some of the songs IN the game start playing?
Don't really see that happening with many games out there. I guess no one should make a video walkthrough of this game with what the actual game has to bring. I'll just go support other developers that aren't greedy.

[Lyzrac]

You do realize that they had an external artist make the music for the OST, right? And the artist or the artist's publishing company probably is the one that still owns the rights for them, not the devs? It's probably an automated bot from the publishing company auto-striking anything with matching audio.

TL;DR: Devs probably have zero control or input over the strikes, very good chance you're barking up the wrong tree.

[Naamtar]

Originally posted by HZ:

Originally posted by puff1n:

the world you live in seems like a simple place..

Oh no, I'm not the one getting striked, it's some YouTubers who seem to be playing the game and having their videos striked because some of the songs IN the game start playing?
Don't really see that happening with many games out there. I guess no one should make a video walkthrough of this game with what the actual game has to bring. I'll just go support other developers that aren't greedy.

Music publishers striking videos for songs a developer licensed for their game isn't on the developers.

Really weird for you to get so upset about it when it's not your work getting a strike, too.

[HyperionZ]

Originally posted by Naamtar:

Originally posted by HZ:

Oh no, I'm not the one getting striked, it's some YouTubers who seem to be playing the game and having their videos striked because some of the songs IN the game start playing?
Don't really see that happening with many games out there. I guess no one should make a video walkthrough of this game with what the actual game has to bring. I'll just go support other developers that aren't greedy.

Music publishers striking videos for songs a developer licensed for their game isn't on the developers.

Really weird for you to get so upset about it when it's not your work getting a strike, too.

Why license in the first place if it's just gonna ruin content creators?
That falls under the developer's irresponsibility knowing that YouTubers make gameplays.
You're telling me if Jack, Markiplier, 8-Bit Ryan, DanTDM, or some other massive YouTuber streamed/recorded this game with it's background music that they would be fine with their videos being striked?
If they wouldn't get striked then why go after smaller content creators?
Can't just cater to one side or the other.

[Naamtar]

Originally posted by HZ:

Originally posted by Naamtar:

Music publishers striking videos for songs a developer licensed for their game isn't on the developers.

Really weird for you to get so upset about it when it's not your work getting a strike, too.

Why license in the first place if it's just gonna ruin content creators?
That falls under the developer's irresponsibility knowing that YouTubers make gameplays.
You're telling me if Jack, Markiplier, 8-Bit Ryan, DanTDM, or some other massive YouTuber streamed/recorded this game with it's background music that they would be fine with their videos being striked?
If they wouldn't get striked then why go after smaller content creators?
Can't just cater to one side or the other.

Well firstly you don't get a strike, your video gets claimed and any profits it makes get sent to the owner of that content. A strike only occurs if you ignore a takedown notice should the owner of that content not want your video up altogether, and you've got something like 30 days to comply with that request. So when a content creator says their video was "striked down" what they're really saying is "I refuse to de-monetize this content and had to remove it, as I can't prove I own the rights to it."

Secondly you keep acting like the developers did this intentionally or had prior knowledge it would happen, it's a common occurrence in the industry. Music publishers abuse the DMCA system with bots. I've had completely silent videos that I uploaded as unlisted/private claimed by them within minutes of the video being processed.

More importantly you care way too much about millionaires, who are strangers to you, having to deal with this occurrence once in a while as they continue to make hundreds of thousands of dollars off content creation.

https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/actors/markiplier-net-worth/

[HyperionZ]

Originally posted by Naamtar:

Originally posted by HZ:

Why license in the first place if it's just gonna ruin content creators?
That falls under the developer's irresponsibility knowing that YouTubers make gameplays.
You're telling me if Jack, Markiplier, 8-Bit Ryan, DanTDM, or some other massive YouTuber streamed/recorded this game with it's background music that they would be fine with their videos being striked?
If they wouldn't get striked then why go after smaller content creators?
Can't just cater to one side or the other.

Well firstly you don't get a strike, your video gets claimed and any profits it makes get sent to the owner of that content. A strike only occurs if you ignore a takedown notice should the owner of that content not want your video up altogether, and you've got something like 30 days to comply with that request. So when a content creator says their video was "striked down" what they're really saying is "I refuse to de-monetize this content and had to remove it, as I can't prove I own the rights to it."

Secondly you keep acting like the developers did this intentionally or had prior knowledge it would happen, it's a common occurrence in the industry. Music publishers abuse the DMCA system with bots. I've had completely silent videos that I uploaded as unlisted/private claimed by them within minutes of the video being processed.

More importantly you care way too much about millionaires, who are strangers to you, having to deal with this occurrence once in a while as they continue to make hundreds of thousands of dollars off content creation.

https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/actors/markiplier-net-worth/

LOL
so you’re saying I’m a millionaire? Interesting.
Also no, there was no warning to the channels I looked at, they got strikes immediately. Your knowledge on strikes and content creators is lacking.

[PikaCrew]

If the content creators are getting a strike, they probably did something else. I make content myself, though I havent uploaded gameplay of this game to my youtube, there are websites out there that will tell you if a video/song will get copyrighted or not. Using such websites, the songs for this game don't get copyrighted automatically.

[Gottschkopf]

Funny how people are discussing with such a blatant and obvious troll.
Never change, Steam forums.

[HyperionZ]

Originally posted by Gottschkopf:

Funny how people are discussing with such a blatant and obvious troll.
Never change, Steam forums.

Jesus, good to know how the community of Windblown is, yeah I'm done with this thread. Hope it gets closed by the devs. I'll make sure not to buy any game from Motion Twin ever again.

[shrimping]

it's blatant you were the one uploading their music without permission. you don't own it and you don't have the right to upload it. be respectful to the artists that create things and stop lying lol.

[Sawtaytoes]

To actually answer the question...

Here's the thing @HZ, what probably happened is the game's music was made by someone who either uploaded it to YouTube's (or other) copyright system or had a publisher that did it.

In those cases, it can get the video struck down for copyright infringement even if the content is technically fair use (part of US copyright law). Because of that, there are often "streamer" modes in game settings that turn off copyrighted music.

It might appear as though the game's devs are doing it, but they're rarely involved. If anything, it'd be on the music side of things. Game publishers also sometimes strike down videos, but that'd be something the game dev could push back on.

In the end, it's most likely something more complicated related to how the game's music is licensed on streaming platforms.