Youtube Copyright

[-Le0n-]

Just Uploaded Full gameplay walkthrough with all the music and got notified about copyright. I know that SquareEnix has already told that they dont have any control on this but is there solution ? and yea I have demonetized the video and files dispute that I am not making any money from it even my channel is so small with 44 Subs only :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdvxh_RI1gw&feature=share

[SE Toby]

https://na.square-enix.com/us/documents/materialusagepolicy

Only Square Enix Music: Some of our games contain music that we don’t own and merely license. Usually you’ll be able to recognize this (such as the radio music in Sleeping Dogs), but we understand it won’t always be clear. As a result, your video could be subject to automated filtering by the owner of the recording or composition. If you’re unsure about a particular song, please check the game credits. Since we cannot grant you a license to use someone else’s music, you’ll need to get permission from the copyright owner(s).

Sorry we can't help with this, much as we would love to.

[-Le0n-]

[Randem Gamor]

Originally posted by ✨-Le0n-✨:

Just Uploaded Full gameplay walkthrough with all the music and got notified about copyright. I know that SquareEnix has already told that they dont have any control on this but is there solution ? and yea I have demonetized the video and files dispute that I am not making any money from it even my channel is so small with 44 Subs only :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdvxh_RI1gw&feature=share

I to have had this issue today and it's really frustrated me a lot ! I've filed a dispute because legally it's covered under fair use... but they stopped the video being played on some platforms (Mobile Devices!) So I had to let YouTube remove the "copyrighted" audio from the first part of my video, and have to save as a copy.. so now I have two duplicate videos for the same part, one just with the copyrighted audio taken out.

Originally posted by Inexorabilis:

https://na.square-enix.com/us/documents/materialusagepolicy

Only Square Enix Music: Some of our games contain music that we don’t own and merely license. Usually you’ll be able to recognize this (such as the radio music in Sleeping Dogs), but we understand it won’t always be clear. As a result, your video could be subject to automated filtering by the owner of the recording or composition. If you’re unsure about a particular song, please check the game credits. Since we cannot grant you a license to use someone else’s music, you’ll need to get permission from the copyright owner(s).

Sorry we can't help with this, much as we would love to.

How about contacting the ones putting the copyright claims on and liasing with them? After all, if us YouTubers aren't able to easily make videos of your game without hassle of unfair and unlawful copyright claims (Unlawful because we are legally allowed to use it because of fair use copyright laws) then less youtubers will cover your game which in turn wont get you as much coverage as other games.

It's very demoralising and frustrating to have a third party company claim a whole video because your company used copyrighted music in there without liasing properly with them in the first place about let's play / gameplay videos which you could have very easily foreseen.

I am now currently editing part 2, and I don't know what songs are commercially copyrighted and what songs are your own?
I read that the game contains an indie sound track so I assumed that none of it was copyrighted until my video went public today and about 70% of my subscribers were unable to watch the video because of a copyright claim.

I personally think as a developer you should be liasing with the companies behind the claims.

Many Thanks.

[-Le0n-]

The Video of mine is full episode gameplay. I got 4 copyrights in total for 4 diff music but reuploading same video without music doesn't make any sense bcz viewers not gonna watch 2 videos. So I just kept it as it is btw I am just a small Youtuber with only 44 subs so even if it gets 100 views atleast I can get audience :(

[YanH]

been there (I don't upload gameplays on my channel, but I love LIS so wanted to), u can remove songs in YT editor but well you will have to remove concert sound by yourself coz youtube was unable to remove it... I had to reupload whole part 1 even it had 35 views already ... look at 26:20 on my video and damn it still got matched but only the way I'm allowed to share revenue, so screw that, I let that be as it is.

I'm so happy my upload speed is horrible so had to split gameplay into 3 parts, 1st part had 3 matches, 2nd part no match, and 3rd part had only one match and youtube was able to remove song without error. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZVtHk7MH-A

[Interknet]

[iamPPJ]

Originally posted by ✨-Le0n-✨:

Just Uploaded Full gameplay walkthrough with all the music and got notified about copyright. I know that SquareEnix has already told that they dont have any control on this but is there solution ? and yea I have demonetized the video and files dispute that I am not making any money from it even my channel is so small with 44 Subs only :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdvxh_RI1gw&feature=share

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg0NcHZxN3s&index=3&list=PLw7bQ4eiW1CxX4rkr6JpifUpPFl2zpHuS

I also uploaded the full walkthrough. I have a really small channel. Just after uploading the video i got 3 copyright claims and now my video won't play on android/IOS devices, as well as consoles. If you guys get any solution on this pls help. Many big ytubers have uploaded without any problems

[-Le0n-]

No man.....no solution found.....just demonetize44ed the video :(

[Shadowspawn]

Best trick for games that don't offer "Stream Audio Mode" is just to turn music volume down and talk more so YouTube bots cant identify track. There are several scenes in this game purely designed to sit back and enjoy music until you hit a button. Don't linger on these.

[Nerelisin Aziz]

You could send a complain. But it may work or not, depending on who has the rights for the track. In my case, one complain got accepted (I believe it was the song when you wake up after the show) while the other got rejected (final song when the tree burns). Reason was the same in both cases: the track is integral part of the game.

[EyeDrapz]

Originally posted by Inexorabilis:

https://na.square-enix.com/us/documents/materialusagepolicy

Only Square Enix Music: Some of our games contain music that we don’t own and merely license. Usually you’ll be able to recognize this (such as the radio music in Sleeping Dogs), but we understand it won’t always be clear. As a result, your video could be subject to automated filtering by the owner of the recording or composition. If you’re unsure about a particular song, please check the game credits. Since we cannot grant you a license to use someone else’s music, you’ll need to get permission from the copyright owner(s).

Sorry we can't help with this, much as we would love to.

I Like this game series but seriously please do not use copyright music on Life is Strange 2 like you on the previous episodes. Because that makes so unfair for a small youtubers like me... I will wait for a while though when the LS2 will came if there is still a copyright music inserted into then I will consider this game dead for me...

[SE Toby]

Originally posted by EpicN4m3:

Originally posted by Inexorabilis:

https://na.square-enix.com/us/documents/materialusagepolicy

Only Square Enix Music: Some of our games contain music that we don’t own and merely license. Usually you’ll be able to recognize this (such as the radio music in Sleeping Dogs), but we understand it won’t always be clear. As a result, your video could be subject to automated filtering by the owner of the recording or composition. If you’re unsure about a particular song, please check the game credits. Since we cannot grant you a license to use someone else’s music, you’ll need to get permission from the copyright owner(s).

Sorry we can't help with this, much as we would love to.

I Like this game series but seriously please do not use copyright music on Life is Strange 2 like you on the previous episodes. Because that makes so unfair for a small youtubers like me... I will wait for a while though when the LS2 will came if there is still a copyright music inserted into then I will consider this game dead for me...

Licensed music is an integral part of Life is Strange games, so we can't really do without them. That being said, we hope to include options that allow streamers and youtubers to turn off licensed music when playing in order to avoid copyright strikes.