Copyright Strike on YouTube for an ingame scene

[Haris Pilton]

Hi, maybe this is the wrong place to ask questions about this issue, but I wanted to try it. Maybe someone else has made the same experience. I wanted to share my gameplay of Call of Cthulhu on YouTube, but right in the first chapter, where you are in the office and Stephen Webster knocks on the door and wants to come in, YouTube says this part is stolen from a russian "Level Up Show" (a review channel from russia, obviously). But it's not, it's just recorded straight from the game. So, can anyone tell me why it is like that? Is the whole scene or even Stephen Webster himself some sort of copyright protected? I don't know much about Lovecraft stuff, maybe someone here knows more about it. Thanks for any help.

[DaetherX]

Disclaimer before I begin: I am not a lawyer. I am not affiliated with nor do I work for Chaosium, nor the company who made this game. I am not associated with nor do I work for Youtube.
I'm just some dude on the internet who watches, probably too much, Youtube videos.

This is a copyright abuse situation that YouTube has intentionally built & fostered to be ever more horrendous. Every YT channel I watch (and ones I don't), including ones that have millions of subscribers, have been hit with similar ridiculous strikes.

YouTube is 100% at fault here. They know about it, and they intentionally do nothing to stop the abuse. No one is forced to prove they actually own IP / copyright they claim is theirs. This other YT'er does not own any part of the copyright, I'd be willing to state. I'd also be willing to say that it has nothing to do with the voice actor, or whatever.

IGN did the exact same thing; copyrighting their video of a cutscene on YT, so everyone else's videos that had that cutscene in it got claimed so other peoples videos monetization would go to IGN. It's frustrating.

AFAIK the only option right now is to dispute it through YT's dispute system which forces you to give your full legal name and your home address to a complete stranger who may or may not want to hurt and/or kill you & your loved ones. Or otherwise use the information in a nefarious way.

If you decide to dispute, instead of letting someone else profit from your work, it's up to you whether you want to be honest in giving your real personal info to this random person from Russia, or dispute it with fake personal info. Giving false info is against YT's ToS I'm sure.

[奶小的姑娘]

Is YT controlled by the Russian / Chinese Communist? OMFG.

[DaetherX]

Originally posted by 奶小的姑娘:

Is YT controlled by the Russian / Chinese Communist? OMFG.

YouTube is owned by Google, which is owned by Alphabet, which as I understand it has significant Chinese stakeholders. So... yes? Sort of. Also Susan W, leader of YouTube, is a major SJW commie.

BTW Literally a videogame company had one of their cutscene videos copyright striked and taken down... by their own company. It was UbisoftUK video taken down by Ubisoft. That's how dumb their system is.