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Obviously I’m being facetious. Fullscreen Inc., no stranger to allegations of copyright abuse, is once again digging itself into a PR hole yet again this weekend after Youtubers began receiving copyright strikes over gameplay videos from titles that Fullscreen definitely does not own. Adding insult to injury, the copyright claims don’t so much list proof of ownership or violation as they do a number.

This story was covered by Reclaimthenet, and it looks like Fullscreen Inc.’s copyright bot is targeting videos of The Witcher 3 and Doki Doki Literature Club. A quick look through Twitter returns a fair number of accounts posting their grievances with the company. This isn’t the first time Fullscreen Inc. has gotten in hot water over illegal copyright claims, as last July users reported having their ad revenue claimed over Doom gameplay footage.

Will Youtube fix its broken copyright system? Probably not. MMO Fallout has reached out to Fullscreen Inc. for comment and will update if we receive a response.

Woke up in the middle of the night, checked my email and some random ass claims from a video from maybe a year ago? I will have to look more at this tomorrow, but is anyone else getting claimed from Fullscreen Inc? pic.twitter.com/ydlwQetxLY

— JoyfulDeath (@joyfuldeath) January 23, 2020

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did you guys know you can copyright the number 36 pic.twitter.com/dnja297R73

— Anne Munition (@AnneMunition) January 24, 2020

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One of my videos ( Cuphead Part One ) was claimed copyright by “Fullscreen,Inc”. At first I was so surprised to see the claim because it was a gaming video which was streamed without using any other contents from any kind of sources.. I am a new gaming content creator and Idk

— A Qube (@AQube4) January 25, 2020

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I already know the answer, but for the record, @TeamSalvato, does this “Fullscreen, Inc.” in any way own the rights to a particular scene in a vanilla #DDLC playthough/commentary that’s over a year old? pic.twitter.com/q8VsUoEQ8n

— Cole Goodrich (@RealAwsome2464) January 24, 2020

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Team Salvato, developer of Doki Doki Literature Club, has requested via Twitter that anyone who receives a copyright strike reach out to them.

For anyone who has received an erroneous @YouTube copyright claim from @Fullscreen Fullscreen, Inc. for your DDLC gameplay videos, please reach out to alecia@teamsalvato.com with your affected video URLs so that we can help reverse the claims ASAP. Thank you!

— Team Salvato (@TeamSalvato) January 24, 2020

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Dirty Dev Beawesome Games Abusing Copyright To Silence Critics

(Update: The Tweet originally sourced in this article was removed by Twitter. We have inserted SidAlpha’s video response as a replacement.)

Today’s story covers Jonathan Slabaugh, aka Jao, head of Beawesome Games and developer of the bestselling mediocre asset flip also known as Day of Dragons. We’ve spoken briefly about Day of Dragons in the past, from the company’s unethical behavior in hardcoding bans of Youtube critics causing their games to crash upon startup. Conversation surrounding Day of Dragons has prompted an almost fanatical response from some of Beawesome’s community base with critics being harassed off of social media and one Youtuber receiving death threats for no longer supporting the game.

But it looks like Jonathan has finally struck a fatal cord in his attempt to silence critics, as Youtuber SidAlpha posted to Twitter that he will be contacting an attorney in response to a failed attempt to copyright strike a video by Beawesome Games. The Tweet contains a snapshot of an email from Youtube confirming that a video posted by Sid had received a copyright infringement notice, but that Youtube would not be taking any action under the belief that the video content constitutes fair use. The copyright notice attempts to claim that a video showing the software interface constitutes copyright infringement.

MMO Fallout has had our own encounters with the sycophantic subset of Day of Dragons fans.

Roblox Claims Tommy Tallarico Does Not Own “Oof” Sound

If you haven’t been paying attention to his Twitter account over the past while, Tommy Tallarico of the Amico Tallarico clan has been in a back and forth kerfuffle with Roblox over allegations that Tommy owns the rights to the “oof” sound effect that has become iconic to Roblox over the past decade or so, and that Roblox is continuing to use the sound effect without his permission and without compensation. Tommy has been attempting to negotiate a settlement to avoid a potential legal battle but has yet to have any luck.

Roblox has officially responded to the allegations, claiming that the oof sound was obtained from a stock sound CD-ROM that was legally purchased consisting of copyright free sounds. They further claim that Tommy has furnished no proof of ownership, although admit that they have been working to reach a fair resolution (which would be needless if Tommy didn’t own the sound).

Roblox’s founders, Erik and David, got the oof sound (along with all the original Roblox sounds) from a stock sound CD-ROM they purchased of licensed, copyright free sounds (not from an illegal website as Tommy has suggested on social media).

We deeply respect the rights of IP creators, and we have built our platform over the past 12+ years based on respecting and honoring creators.
Despite the fact that Tommy has no copyright to the “oof” sound (and in response to our requests he has presented us no proof of ownership to it) we’ve nevertheless been working in good faith to reach a fair resolution with him. As part of that, we have asked Tommy to become part of our creative community and we look forward to exploring that opportunity with him further.

The full statement can be found at the following link. Tommy alleges that he created the sound effect for the game Messiah which readers can listen to at the embedded video below. Tommy has also stated that he has possession of the original recordings of the sound.

Um… I have the original DAT tape recording, a video, a contract and my metadata on the sound. As well as a ton of sounds just like the one they took. Yes… lets go to court and see who wins. @Roblox ignorance on display. How about showing your proof of this so called https://t.co/iMezQbJWPk

— TommyTallarico (@TommyTallarico) January 11, 2020

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Gustavo Canine Games Blames Network For Fraudulent Copyright Claims

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

IPE: Glorious Saga’s Shutdown Message Sidesteps Developer’s Theft

China; it’s a country where intellectual properties are basically there to be stolen. Unfortunately for IP thieves, western companies have been having better luck in recent years winning major court victories against these copyright cretins. Case in point, Blizzard is taking on Sina Games and their very obvious ripoff of Warcraft; Glorious Saga.

Glorious Saga has been shut down by Sina, and if you check their Facebook page out you’ll have no idea why. The page candidly glosses over any mention of the fact that it’s been sued for being a shady ripoff.

Dear players,

Thanks for your support and love of our game. We had a great and happy time in the game.

But due to some irresistible reasons, we decided to announce that the game will stop operating at 06:00 on 29th of Aug. (EDT), and all the servers will be closed. Players can’t login any longer.

We are very sorry and we will do our best to guide and provide best service for all the players during the server closure process.

Operation Team

Thankfully the snarky Facebook community is having none of this, and calling the company out on its own page. More information on the lawsuit can be found here.

IPE: MMO Fallout Hit With DMCA Takedown

Hello folks,

I initially grappled with whether to publish this piece, and just decided to go with it. It came to my attention over the weekend that MMO Fallout, specifically our domain host, has been hit with a DMCA takedown notice. The notice was sent to us in regards to an In Plain English article that was published last year, and it appears that someone is unhappy enough with our coverage and publicization of the events that they’ve decided to claim that our usage of their name in coverage and the court dockets infringes on copyright and trademarks.

Now MMO Fallout knows its legal rights and will not be voluntarily taking down this article. I have nearly full confidence in our hosting provider that they will see the takedown for what it is and will ignore it. That said, I fully understand that it is in their best interest under US Copyright law to act now and make me defend myself later, so I decided to publish this notice as a warning that, on the off chance this website suddenly goes dark over the next few days, you know what happened.

With that, I now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.

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