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Yet Another Major Videogame Music Fan Community Hit With "Legal Complaints"

Posted by Merit Celaire on Tuesday, February 8, 2022 - 09:27 AM

Good morning, friends; finally snagging the chance to catch up on general blog entry posts on this site music operations related (real life situations are still getting in the way, but pulling through slowly). But this one is not one of those posts, but still has a relation to all videogame music fan communities as a whole, including this one... which if my assumptions are correct, have been tragically impacted once again.

I'll redact the "name" of said person that was recently hit by "adversarial" forces, but I will say the following - they were also another "major user" via YouTube who was sharing a bunch of videogame music recordings either from the games themselves and/or soundtracks. And like I stated in this article from one to two years ago, their channel was in action for 10+ years (to the best of my knowledge) although I haven't been using them as much for "sources" to do my Super Nintendo music style arrangement covers for these operations.

But I will also say this, however: that same person recently got hit with a total of 1,000+ copyright claims regarding soundtracks that were (and still are) primarily owned by Nintendo; the worst part is, this wasn't the only time said person got an avalanche of complaints from Nintendo's legal departments (when they sent the red flags to YouTube's administration involving said user). But in both instances, it resulted in all the involved videos that apparently Nintendo owns the copyrighted materials to being blocked from viewing on YouTube. And just recently, when the YouTube channel owner got word of this news, it ultimately forced them to unfortunately shut the channel down.

Once again, as I stated in this article, I had no doubt in my conscience that when these kind of actions were done from the "legal side" of things (and of course, Nintendo is within their rights to protect all of their stuff which they rightfully have ownership to), we in the entire videogame music fan community have been put "on notice" and have been warned. And the legal departments at Nintendo have detetcted another "major threat" from said YouTube user whose account was shut down (by their own choice) which I have a very strong feeling was what the Nintendo legal departments were aiming for. That all said, this is still a very sad time for all of us in the videogame music fan community at large and now we have to definitely tread carefully from here on out because the Nintendo legal departments may be going after more users like this on YouTube if they are deemed a "major threat" to Nintendo's properties in general.

As for yours truly and for these music operations as a whole, you all know that it's my responsibility (and our operations' policy) to make sure that everything gets properly acknowledged on both featured musical scores for all games that Nintendo rightfully owns as well as the featured Super Nintendo music instrument sets being featured and used (because they are still owned by the respective users via copyright as well). Because if we don't do that, we'd literally be plagiarizing and that is the last kind of news that I want to encounter for all us here.

With that said, and if my assumptions are correct, the legal departments at Nintendo hit this said former YouTube user hard in hopes to send the message about this person committing "mass plagiarlism" of their stuff as well as possible "copyright theft". And this also reiterates the grim question of "if this person got hit with a massive amount of complaints via the YouTube platform, who's going to be next?"

So let's continue to proceed with caution and continue to give credits/acknowledgements where its due so we won't run into any more problems like this. Thanks in advance for your time to read this and I'll see you next time around. I'm out.

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