[TheUltimaXtreme]

Let us quickly remember the Shining Force ordeal... Now that we remember, we MUST know that Sega of America stated they don't actively care about use of their content for monetization.

February 28, I got a video of mine tagged for copyright claim. The video in question used E.G.G.M.A.N. in it. It was tagged by "elicense."

Similarly, Dario FF, Melpontro, and Paraxade0 seem to be victims of the copyright bed bug.

https://twitter.com/...207889756082177 As you can see from the tweet here, this is a problem.

Anyone else getting slammed here? I won't be seeing any revenue from my Sonic Dash video because of this prick who decided it would be fun to claim SEGA content.

[Dario FF]

I got hit again today by another 2 of these. If they don't answer I'm not getting around it and replacing the music... I'm just not gonna make Sega-related content instead. A lot of it is gameplay music, it's not like you're expected to get around it very often. It's just not fair considering the amount of work that goes into the videos. (Especially the Knuckles Boom stuff that we spent months setting up)

This post has been edited by Dario FF: 02 February 2015 - 07:20 PM

[Kiddo Cabbusses]

I've been getting quite the amount of claims by this "elicense". Thank goodness the "Remove music" button is in place - it's easier to just pop the alleged song out than have to deal with the hassle of disputing the claim.

[Travelsonic]

Kiddo Cabbusses, on 02 February 2015 - 08:25 PM, said:

I've been getting quite the amount of claims by this "elicense". Thank goodness the "Remove music" button is in place - it's easier to just pop the alleged song out than have to deal with the hassle of disputing the claim.

Unfortunately, random 3rd parties who most likely are not legit owners, thrive on apathy like this... I mean, if it were beyond the first dispute, if they kept insisting, yeah, I'd be inclined to agree, but at least showing the first set of teeth and disputing the initial claim.... why not?

I've had to dispute video claims from random 3rd party assclowns trying to claim ownership of content - one video I took from a flight I took years ago got flagged for bullshit stuff, some 3rd party claiming ownership of the sound, disputed, never heard from them again - which, from what I guess, is not entirely uncommon when it comes to copyright trolls trying to claim ownership over content they clearly do not own.

[Kiddo Cabbusses]

Travelsonic, on 02 February 2015 - 08:36 PM, said:

Unfortunately, random 3rd parties who most likely are not legit owners, thrive on apathy like this... I mean, if it were beyond the first dispute, if they kept insisting, yeah, I'd be inclined to agree, but at least showing the first set of teeth and disputing the initial claim.... why not?

You're talking to someone who got his account monetization disabled for six months in the middle of a dispute of a copyright strike from the ghost of a dead company who's shit was still in the automated system.

Do you REALLY want me to go picking fights I don't have to, when it's easier to get the monetization back by simply removing the alleged song?

[Clutchy]

Got hit by them twice. The research I've done shows they don't even exist really; so how are they even an affiliate with SEGA, or anything? A friend of mine work(ed) at SEGA (though Customer Service) and said they have no idea what "elicense" is.

I just disputed the claims. I'm not letting some random 3rd party that from my knowledge doesn't exist earn money off of what they don't own, even if I'm not monetizing what they are claiming.

[AngelComa]

I have never had an issue posting SEGA content on our channel. Never have had them flag anything. The only times we did have flags are when websites like IGN and Eurogamer hold copyright on SEGA trailers and we reuploaded them because I don't want to embbed their ugly media players on our site.

Oh and this one time we used Jurassic Park Lost World song for a podcast about Sonic Lost World, dat was flagged. But SEGA themselves, not yet.

[Paraxade]

TheUltimaXtreme, on 02 February 2015 - 07:56 AM, said:

Similarly, Dario FF, Melpontro, and Paraxade0 seem to be victims of the copyright bed bug.

I actually haven't been hit by it yet, but I'm worried I will be. :/

[SonicHyuga]

One of my Sky Rail videos was claimed about an hour ago from this post. Replacing audio until this gets sorted out.

[Dude]

It happened to me too, but I'm getting tired of making Sonic related stuff anyways, I'll probably go Dario's route and not make SEGA-related content anymore.

[S0LV0]

B-but guyyys... what about the modding stuff... ;^;

[TimmiT]

I wouldn't go the whole "let's just not do Sonic stuff anymore" route until we actually know if this is SEGA doing this or not, or if they intended to tag these videos.

[Paraxade]

You'd think if it wasn't legitimate they would have said something/stopped this by now though. Seems like nobody has managed to get their attention to get some answers about this.

[AngelComa]

Has anyone tried tweeting them about this?

[TimmiT]

Paraxade, on 03 February 2015 - 01:11 PM, said:

You'd think if it wasn't legitimate they would have said something/stopped this by now though. Seems like nobody has managed to get their attention to get some answers about this.

I think it's pretty understandable if they don't have their full attention on the community right now.