ZackFurniss
The Youtube Content ID fiasco has hit a new low (here’s a bit of background if you need to catch up). Content creators all over the web have been blindsided by this sudden change in policy, and the creators of No More Room in Hell are amongst those afflicted.
A Reddit user by the name of NoMoreRightsInHell (ha!) has identified himself as Brent ‘Brentonator’ McAhren, one of the No More Room in Hell team members, and is chronicling the ordeals they are facing to monetize their Youtube content. Everything in the video is ‘100% original content’, from art assets to music. David ‘Dman’ Meade (another team member) supplied contracts from all content contributors to Youtube, demonstrating that all assets in the videos are authorized. This lead to their Steam launch trailer being denied monetization. Brent had another idea after that:
My attempt was to go another route and try to clarify that we are the original rights holders, giving full legal information for that including that our account representative is fully authorized. This resulted in Google requesting written permission from the original rights holders but, as our contracts state, and I just told them, we are original rights holders with the work being completed under contract.
Yet still they were denied. Since the scanning process for Content IDs is automated, people are going to get flagged for using other people’s content. But in this case, they’re going through every proper channel to complete the necessary processes. If they’ve done the work, why shouldn’t they get the profits? Hopefully this is quickly resolved, but since Youtube and Google have made no attempts to apologize or admit that their new automation has the potential for false positives such as this, a happy ending is unlikely.
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