After implementing a controversial comment system on its site YouTube has again come under fire for its latest copyright content strategy. The alleged content ID scanning policy auto detects the game videos not published by the creators and flags those videos from the site.
Often gamers scroll through the videos on YouTube that have reviews or detailed analysis on how the game should be played or what elements are missing in the game besides the original ones by the copyright holder. Gamers are even seen posting their feedback for they want to see in future editions. The new copyright policy of YouTube now will not allow any such videos on the site, reads a recent post on Computerandvideogames.
The latest copyright technology from YouTube auto detects such videos where the comments from the YouTube users overlap with the copyright holders. The stringent policy not only automatically removes the videos on the site but also redirects the revenue generated on the video to the copyright holder instead of the publisher.
The Google-owned company issued a statement on its new content ID scanning. "We recently enabled Content ID scanning on channels identified as affiliates of MCNs," said YouTube, reveals a recent post on GameInformer."This has resulted in new copyright claims for some users, based on policies set by the relevant content owners. As ever, channel owners can easily dispute Content ID claims if they believe those claims are invalid."
A YouTube representative confirmed that the cleaning process will pick over the week, but however, refused to clarify what future steps the company will take to fix the issue, reports Kotaku.
Most of the game developers are not comfortable with this new copyright system as it has impacted many of their regular clients. In fact, they did not ask for the changes initiated by YouTube. Tetra Ninja, a YouTube users who quite often comes up with game walkthroughs and has more than 50, 000 subscribers on the site, got more than his 350 videos deleted.
Most of the game publishing companies are trying their level best to recover these videos or unflagging the videos on the site. Many of the game developers came up with official statements on Twitter while others have been posting helpful videos on YouTube explaining the matter. A representative from Blizzard tweeted that affected users could send details of the flagged videos to the company and they will try to resolve the issues as fast as possible.
Ubisoft has come up with a step by step procedure to revert these forbidden videos. 'If you happen to be hit with claims on any of your Ubisoft content, it may be that some of the audio is being auto-matched against the music catalogue on our digital stores - it might show up as being claimed by our distributor 'idol," said Ubisoft in a statement. "In such cases please take the following steps and we can get it cleared for you." The steps are as follows:
- Leave the video live for now.
- Send us the URL of the affected video and let us know who flagged it.
- We'll get it cleared hopefully same day.'
It seems like a majority of the game publishers don't want to annoy the contributors adding further content to their official videos, which may compel YouTube to reconsider its copyright strategy.
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