A streamer was copyright striked for wind ambience sound effects in Sen’Jin Village.
The strike was made by “Hollywood Edge Sound Effects Library.”
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copyright laws really are a piece of garbage the way they are now.
Not only that, but when the system and the law is a failure it takes no time for the owners to ruin everything for their own greedy gain, and in my personal opinion thats where humanity most pitch black ugly and disgusting side show up, no need for black market stuff, just look at this kind of stuff, this ugly side shows up very easily.
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Guess I better disable the Metal Gear Solid ! sound from my addon if I ever stream 
i would report it to blizzard and see what they say, i never heard of that company and its probably a fake claim trying to get money.
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Anything can be copyright striked on youtube.
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it probably would not save the money, so for all time job youtubers this might not work…
but if it were me, then i would upload a second video alongside the one i just released and that one is a very short 10 seconds video with a download and also separate version link for the video to be watched somewhere else for the people.
I believe this was on Twitch which is currently facing a swarm of copystrikes and permabans going out across the platform.
Gotta be careful, apparently wind can get ya now too.
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Sad world we live in when you have to have a legal team to be able to fight off copyright claim abuse.
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i can only hope for a new revolutionare plataform for videos just like youtube was to just born…
usually this new baby succesfull things do last at least some years before they become big and have to kneel to these garbage copyright laws.
its even worse… i became aware recently that the own creator of the music through fire and flames of guitar hero 3 just got banned for copyright in his twitch account.
When i saw that i was like…my god, this is system is beyond garbage, actually its even an insult to the garbage itself.
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Blizzard allows the use of all of their in-game sounds to be played on stream so long as you are not paywalling your content i.e. sub only streams, sub only vods. This is guaranteed as a twitch partner, and affiliate as well.
The claim for the wind sounds was a false claim made due to the similarity of the sound that was auto detected by a bot.
The strike will be removed. Theres also a dmca bot that will message you live now too, it will say things like “orgrimmars theme is a potential copyright material you are subject to a claim” etc. Even though you aren’t.
DMCA laws suck, but false claims wont see any action.
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Yea, I would appeal it if it hasn’t already been overturned.
World of Warcraft allows their in-game sounds to be used. Hell, they allow full cinematics to be uploaded as long as they aren’t somehow from encrypted files.
Very few gaming companies actually go after their stuff on streamers/youtube let’s players, because it’s literally free advertising for them, so they’d be idiots.
Nintendo learned it the hard way, but now they embrace it and even send consoles and games to the popular youtubers.
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That is false. He did not get dmca’d for playing his own music.
thats true, a guy i sub to who posts alot of halo and star wars stuff has had random companies copyright claiming music which he has express permission from the artist to use. Its all fake claims but every time they do it the guy has to stop and chase up youtube cause it kills monetisation as long as the claim is up. And the lame part is all these false claims do no harm at all to the person making them. These days its profitable to be a crook, literally
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Seems like this sort of thing should be fair use. I’m wondering if “Hollywood Edge Sound Effects Library” is actually just a flag bot.
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Odd how the system is guilty until proven innocent when the accusation comes from a corporation.
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Yes and the problem is they make the copyright claimers judge, jury and executioner. If you want to appeal a copyright claim, then you have to go to them and they usually make the process absurdly annoying. Technically they don’t even have to answer you. It is why so many youtube videos just don’t play sound at all. Now someone who has a strong legal team and a lot of money may be able to deal with this as if it happens enough and without breaking the law, you can take the people issuing the claims to court. Thing though is that even if you do it one of the many other hundreds of thousands of companies or just independent artists may do the same.
This need to be addressed by Blizzard ASAP to twitch since they are ALLOW us to use their in game music/content on stream
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Hi welcome to third-party claim systems. You submit a counterclaim. Nothing blizzard can do Youtubers have been dealing with this trash for years.
There have been instances of people having their own music third-party claimed.
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And youtube won’t do anything cause of investors and fickle laws.