Stop me if you’ve heard this story before… A YouTube channel featuring music, covers, or remixes of classic songs from popular Nintendo games has been forcibly removed after being cleared. contact with Nintendo’s army of lawyers. Well, it’s happening again. A new channel is now claimed to be the latest casualty in Nintendo’s ongoing battle against some of its most devoted and passionate fans.
As first reported by NintendoLifethe club’s newest member is SynaMax, a YouTube channel dedicated to music. The users behind the channel, who say in the channel’s bio that they have been making music since 2004, had previously uploaded high-quality covers and entertainment programs of several Metroid Prime songs. However, that seems to have caught the attention of Nintendo and its legal team.
In a video was uploaded yesterdayThe channel’s creator claims that he was contacted by Nintendo’s attorneys on May 31 and asked to remove nine introductory videos. Metroid Prime cover music or remix.
“I was really disappointed with Nintendo when they forced me to take these videos down because they wanted a mandatory license,” SynaMax said in the new video.
They further explained that although these videos are now no longer available; his research video on Metroid PrimeSoundtracks and other similar videos are safe as they do not contain copyrighted music. Furthermore, they were unable to make any more covers or remixes of Metroid Prime or other Nintendo game music unless they have a “required” license from the company.
Kotaku contacted Nintendo and SynaMax about the deleted videos.
SynaMax acknowledges that these songs are owned and copyrighted by Nintendo and that the publisher has “the legal right to take this content down.”
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However, they question why the company has gone so far as to instead just turn off monetization of related videos and let fans continue to produce and share Nintendo-inspired creations. . SynaMax said he wouldn’t mind losing that revenue; they just want to share their songs with other fans. SynaMax, his frustration is evident, is wrapped up by saying that it hasn’t finished creating any more Nintendo-related content “for a very long time.”
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We did see this same scenario play out again and again in the past few years. Nintendo fans work hard to create new, interesting content related to the game or providing other fans with easy ways to listen to Nintendo music that the publisher did not allow access, and “Big N” responded by sending legal threats to some most passionate and dedicated fans.
Just earlier this month, Nintendo has filed more than 500 copyright claims for a channel, forcing the creator behind that YouTube channel to remove all Nintendo-related music. In the process, many of the songs they’ve uploaded to YouTube become a lot harder to listen to, which is a real problem for die-hard fans who just want to experience a bit of their childhood again. their own or celebrate a game they especially loved.
Sure, Nintendo has every legal right to do this. But the thing is, many other game companies these days are working with fans and creators to let them make cool stuff in a legally safe way. Many publishers are even providing interested players with accessible, legal ways to replay their catalog. As we said before, Nintendo doesn’t have to do this. Yet it continues to do just that, making it harder and harder to celebrate and enjoy the publisher’s long history and beloved franchises.
