Major Indie developers have lunged in complaints at YouTube’s polemic new copyright detection policies after various false copyright claims on videos of their games.
Mike Bithell, creator of puzzle platform game Thomas Was Alone, hit out at an outfit referred to as ‘Indmusic’ – that describes itself as YouTube’s “largest music network” – for allegedly “systematically” claiming rights to footage of his game.
“Pissed off at @indmusic, they’re presently consistently claiming all footage of my game, and monetizing. Daylight robbery,” said Bithell, after having aimed a Tweet directly at the organization requesting that it stop creating false claims.
“Hey, guys, you have got zero possession of footage of my game, Thomas Was Alone. Stop demanding proof of videos of it,” he said.
Bithell later superimposed, “This is rather loathsome, and it’s sickening that @indmusic is taking cash from the pockets of variety of supporters of my game.” More amazingly, Terry Cavanagh, developer of platform game VVVVVV, has ventilated over having in person received a copyright flag on a trailer of his own game.
It emerged on Tuesday that YouTube has sent a press release to YouTubers via email standing by its new ‘Content ID’ detection technology, and reiterating its recommendation that affected users file disputes for ‘invalid’ copyright claims.