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Sonic The Hedgehog boss music got claimed under DMCA (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My kids wanted to do a little "challenge" of trying to see which one of them would be able to finish the original Sonic game the fastest, so I set up a stream that showed both their streams at the same time and broadcasted it onto Twitch.tv.

After the stream was done I was checking the video and got a message part of my video got muted because it contained "copyrighted content owned or controlled by a third party". It muted a minute before the coprighted part and a minute after, too.

Apparantly someone made a song that uses the Robotnik theme, meaning no one will be able to stream this game anymore without getting this part muted?

Here is the "song" that supposedly counts as the copyrighted original

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CCE-QFs0e4

It's 3 years old and has 100 views.

The actual original (by Masato Nakamura):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAK1pnfod7A

Full message on my video:

"Audio for portions of this video has been muted as it appears to contain copyrighted content owned or controlled by a third party."

Here are the appeal options:

I'm not sure how to appeal this, but I'm not sure if I could appeal this (or under what reason). What do you think?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Holy shit that "song" is bad, that jarring transition into the "rapping" is just fucking terrible. No wonder they turned comments off.....

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

The mute system is a little confusing. Basically, Twitch auto scans the video for what it thinks might be copyrighted audio, then it mutes that section for you to prevent you from getting a copyright strike. This is all automatic and set to extremely paranoid because when a big wave of copyright enforcement went around a few years ago, that was equally paranoid and ridiculous. People got copyright strikes for 2 second snippets of something you could barely hear in the background. It was bad.

But the auto mute isn't a strike or even a warning. It's no authority at all. It's just a random automated guess at what companies might be looking for when doing their scans. It's there to protect you in its weird and uncomfortable way.

You can dispute, but that puts the responsibility for any claims on you. You're waiving the protection. It might be fine, but if it isn't you suffer the consequences. So generally it's usually not worth the risk to bother. But a mute is no big deal. It doesn't hurt you or count against you in any way.

tl;dr: nobody is actually claiming that audio is copyrighted, except some robot scan thought it might be and better safe than sorry.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Wow. I was expecting similarity, but not the exact same song!

There's definitely copyright infringement here, but not by you!

The copycat probably flew under the radar since they have so few views, but if it gets any more attention, they are seriously at risk for a lawsuit.

I say appeal with "This music is not in my video" because it's not.