A growing number of reports have been coming in over the last couple of days of Youtube creators seeing their Let’s Play videos being hit with copyright strikes, with the source of the strike being an entity that definitely does not own said copyrights. The strikes appear to be coming from a “Gustavo Canine Games,” a Brazilian Youtube let’s play content creator.
The real culprit appears to be GCG’s network owner, Illustrated Sound Music. Illustrated Sound Music is going off the deep end and claiming ownership of video game footage, something that it definitely does not own. As a result, users are having videos of their own Let’s Plays flagged as identical and having the videos automatically copyright claimed. Which again, ISM definitely does not own the copyright to.
Gustavo Canine Games has posted an apology to his Facebook page and notes that his lawyer has gotten involved.
“I got in contact with the network they claim to be solving.. off my lawyer against the network, I’m being accused by the world for something I didn’t do ;; honestly I don’t know if I’ll keep this channel for much fear, it’s being hell”
Illustrated Sound Music themselves have also apologized, blaming the copyright sweep on videos being enabled for content ID matching that absolutely should not have been enabled. They have promised to release the claims in the next 24-48 hours.
To everyone wondering about the Illustrated Sound Music Content ID debacle, I got a response from the MCN itself. Apparently it was a bug and they are going to release the claims within 24-48 hours. Here’s the email in question. pic.twitter.com/FJNm8LdKU2
— Neronium (@Roxas1359) December 3, 2019
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Affected Youtubers are encouraged to dispute any copyright claim and not to wait in the hopes that ISM eventually gets around to releasing the claims.
Source: Facebook
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