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SEGA YouTube Videos Hit With eLicense Content ID Matches

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YouTube gamer partners beware.

A new challenger has entered the Content ID fray for YouTube’s copyright system and is claiming videos containing SEGA music, most notably Out Run and Sonic. The company, known simply as elicense, has not taken a single video down. However those who receive ad revenue are hit the hardest as a Content ID match renders the video that got that match unable to receive any ad revenue.

A lot of people, including me, have been hit by the claims. Some people feel it is a fraud account taking advantage of the flaws in YouTube’s copyright system. However TSSZ’s Ryan Bloom did some findings and explains why some feel otherwise:

That actually happened fairly recently: some German branch of Paramount Pictures claimed copyright on the Dreamworks Logo at the start of my Trespasser video, and then a couple of days later, it just went away (likely because they didn’t have the rights to it).

A few people have contacted Sega over the elicense music claims, and Sega’s official response has been that they do not deal with Content ID on Youtube anymore, so this probably isn’t something they’ve authorized to be happening.

That being said, elicense is a Japanese company, and some have theorized maybe this is something Sega of Japan is doing autonomously. 

And with the shakeups at Sega of America, there’s no telling if anyone there can even get this sorted out anymore.

So I’m just gonna cross my fingers and not touch anything and hopefully it all works out.

Some YouTubers have tried to get help from their partners to help dispute the claims.

A couple of users on the SEGA forums believe that videos with the most views are the ones that typically get claimed.

Whether SEGA sorts out the problem isn’t known at this time but one thing is for sure: YouTubers will have to keep their eyes peeled on game audio for a while.

This post was originally written by the author for TSSZ News.

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  1. Welp, some of my Sonic Adventure videos got claimed, too … but they have less than 100 views. Nothing else got claimed by now, I hope it will remain that way.

  2. One of my older Sonic Generations video got hit with this claim. I deleted the vid since I didn’t want to have it around anyway and I don’t think I could watch it myself.

  3. Some of my Project M mod videos got claimed. The thing that’s odd is that this has only happened with the videos with some pretty decent views…

  4. So far, I haven’t been claimed as I don’t monetize my videos and only have 8 subscribers. But that doesn’t mean I’m not going to get claimed. Let’s hope I don’t!

    1. Nope, having your video unlisted doesn’t help, A video that I had uploaded unlisted yesterday so I could show friends some emulator footage I recorded is now flagged. (and it happened within 5 minutes of me making this comment)

      1. Damn, lovely this is…ERRRGH! I don’t know about you but I think the groups of Anonymous and or Lizard Squad need to launch a back lash attack against elicense lol. Sorry but this audio copyright nonsense is just pathetically ridiculous! Them flagging already pissed off customers on their videos especially the playthrough ones is not helping this whole situation. I hope they’re reading this too!

  7. I don’t have any Sonic gameplay videos, but I have used Sonic music, and I’m getting some of them hit too.

    The highest number of views one of my affected videos has?

    24.

    So it’s not just oft-viewed videos. It’s any video.

    And yes, I am in fact back.

    2. It’s nice to have you back. If anything has changed since you left, it is that Sonic Boom is no longer a big topic. That storm finally blew over and left. Now, it’s the future of Sonic everyone’s worrying about. By the way, your profile picture is awesome. 😉

      1. Sonic Runners seems to be a bit of a hot topic too. At least this time I’m not making the same mistake I did with Rise of Lyric 🙂

  8. ‘Most views got claimed’. Yes, my Sonic Boom video, which hase more than 100k views, got claimed but my newer vids got claimed just as they were uploaded.

  9. Reminds me of the problems others and myself have been having with Capcom and [Merlin] IDOL. Capcom USA seems to have no problem with the videos, yet the problem persists…

  10. One of my videos has been claimed for using a SEGA song, but there’s a VOICE narrating a story over the entire song- meaning it’s just BG music… This elicense system really knows what it’s doing.

      1. BlazeHedgehog suggest something better: partner with somebody and claim everything as theirs.

      2. It’s pretty well known that Google programmed YouTube with a notorious “Copyright Bot” that’s infamous for deleting videos and suspending user accounts for the most asinine of things and even the weakest of copyright claims. Most companies accused of taking videos down or audio are not directly involved since they aren’t monitoring user videos.

        So how exactly is this news?

  12. “A couple of users on the SEGA forums believe that videos with the most views are the ones that typically get claimed.”

    That’s bull, my Model Comparison video got copyrighted right when it was uploaded.

  13. What I find interesting is that it’s not all my Sonic videos. Like my Sonic 1 and Generations( and not even all of my Generations stuff) got flagged, but my Sonic Adventure, Sonic Adventure 2, Unleashed, Sonic Advance 2, Sonic 2, Sonic Colors, and even S3K stuff hasn’t gotten flagged (at least at the time of me posting this anyway).

  14. It’s not the videos with most views, its almost every video the system identifies. I got a Content ID for a video with 10 views.

    1. Yes, I’m aware. That’s what those users were claiming though, not me.

      I didn’t have any room to argue otherwise at the time so it seemed logical.

  15. I don’t do monetized content, but it seems my Shadow Got Owned Collab also go the notice by the elicense guys.

    1. Also, I once tried to upload a video with a song from FullMetal Alchemist onto Youtube, and the entire video was muted due to a copyright claim by Sony of all companies. I had to change the music.

      1. Sony Music Japan has the license to Fullmetal Alchemist’s music (actually A LOT of anime’s music). Fullmetal Alchemist ran in Sony’s Shonen Gangan magazine to.

    1. Same for me (except one which was claimed last night), I just had to file disputes and after about 12 hours everything was okay again.

      1. One video has not been released because it also had a claim by Sega. Not too bothered about that. Also got another claim from ‘AdRev for 3rd Party’ on Sega music too.

  18. I deleted all my videos in advance. I only had Daytona USA series and Sonic Jam songs uploaded when it came to Sega. It really sucks when companies do this. Like, do they even know what “Fair Use” means?

  19. I’ve been doing a Sonic Adventure LP… I think a few of mine got hit by the claims :/

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