Nintendo Hits YouTube Soundtrack Channel With Over 1300 Copyright Blocks

9 responses to “Nintendo Hits YouTube Soundtrack Channel With Over 1300 Copyright Blocks”

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   wozowski

   January 31, 2022 at 9:37 am

   “It is their content after all.”

   It’s not content, it’s original copyrighted music Nintendo paid a lot of money to produce. I know people are used to ripping stuff of to make their own ‘content’, but IP exists for a reason. It protects original artist and makes sure they get paid to make more awesome original works.

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   1. 

      Gamer Joker

      January 31, 2022 at 10:22 am

      “It protects original artist and makes sure they get paid to make more awesome original works.”

      When it comes to videogames, not particularly. The music that composers make for a game while working for a studio/publisher as an employee or contractor remains the property of their employer. Composers like Hideki Naganuma, who composed the more memorable soundtracks of SEGA games, don’t earn royalties from it.

      A more recent example would be Martin O’Donnell, who found out the hard way through a lawsuit that, no, the unused music he composed for Destiny in fact remains property of Bungie, not him. From his own statement:

      “I do not have, and have not had since at least April 2014, the legal authority to possess or distribute non-commercially available material related to Destiny or Music of the Spheres, including material I composed or created while working for Bungie. This material is owned by Bungie. “

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         vashta_nerada47

         February 1, 2022 at 3:04 pm

         Doesn’t change the fact that Nintendo paid for that music to be created. They own it. They have every right to tell someone that they can’t put it on Youtube. Nintendo won’t be willing to pay artists nearly as much for music that they aren’t allowed to own, protect and/or profit off of.

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2. 

   luigifan

   January 31, 2022 at 2:05 pm

   Makes me feel a warm glow about tinfoil

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3. 

   djbear

   January 31, 2022 at 3:05 pm

   I mean yeah of course they should.

   This channel is re-uploading in its entirety songs they don’t have the rights to distribute. They aren’t adding anything to these soundtracks, They are pirating them.

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   1. 

      boxhead

      January 31, 2022 at 4:48 pm

      Especially when the games publisher is selling the OST as part of the game, deluxe edition etc.

      Or the music is licensed from the artist. (Like a Rockstar or Ubisoft does)

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   vashta_nerada47

   February 1, 2022 at 3:15 pm

   Oh how could we possibly have seen this coming????? I mean, just because Nintendo has hit this same channel before and has continued to do so for over a year now doesn’t mean they’d do it again. Right?At this point, this person is just asking for trouble. Take the hint and be glad Nintendo didn’t take legal action. Which I suspect they’ll probably do next time. Because it’s obvious “GilvaSunner” still hasn’t learned their lesson.

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5. 

   kris85

   February 2, 2022 at 2:03 am

   Who cares another day another Nintendo cease and desist.

   Don’t like paying ridiculous prices for nostalgia, don’t like a company constantly stomping on people, don’t support them.

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      jarr

      February 2, 2022 at 2:27 am

      I don’t think they’d still be Nintendo if they stopped stomping on people. But they’ve got to protect nonexistent revenue streams, after all.

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