So I made a video, about this game, presented commentary, and criticism of the game, and now I am being threaten with legal action for doing so. Violating fair use rights, for profit… I am very disappointed in this company… and I will unlikely be purchasing or praising a single game from them ever again. I have recieved a strike on my account now, and I put the blame entirely on their hostile business actions. You tube refuses to even let me edit out the music…
You must mute background music 
You must mute background music from game, not from video.
No you see here in America we have freespeech and Fair use is part of the copyright law here to protect us from this. If you don’t understand fair use, then please stop…
I don’t need their permission to do so.
It is entirely their fault for saying people have permission, when they have the right to do so, and ignore this right and play it off as if they will automatically win in counter claims after they make use content ID system to take them down out of greed of sueing with copyright claims.
And I am sick of people abusing this system god damnit.
For the record, I will be openly boycotting this developer from here on out, since they want to pull switch and bait, and ignore our fair use rights.
Please understand, you just can’t use ANY music from game in your video.
Your free speech and fair don’t care YouTube, you just can’t use audio from game.
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Yes the music is COPYRIGHTED, Oh whats this FAIR USE, SECTION 107… its apart of copyright law kid… I have the right now sit down… I’m sorry you are too blind to see the obvious switch and bait here. They are using proxy companies to attack videos.
I’m mad as hell and I am not going to take this any more. If you are going to blindly defend a company attacking it’s customer base then by all means do so, you have the damn right to, but if you are going to say free speech be damned while practicing it then shut up and sit down. I’m a human being god damnit, I have rights just as much as you do, and these developers do. When they ignore our rights and write them off as permissions to abuse them… They deny all of us equal rights, and treat all of us like animals… well I am not going to take this any more, I hope they try to sue so I can counter sue them for decimation of character, and violating my rights, for accusing me of a crime I did not commit, as it fell clearly under my rights.
@Charlie @PatrickKlug please explain to @Daniel_Musial what he’s doing wrong or give him the 
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I believe you are actually the one accusing others of something they did not do. From what I can gather from this topic, you’ve been given a strike because you had in-game music enabled in the background. However, the music used in the game does not actually belong to Greenheart Games, but to an unknown third party. Whilst I do agree with you that you most likely used the music within the laws of Fair Use (based on what I’ve read, not what I’ve seen), and I find it strange how YouTube handed you a strike before the video got claimed (unless you left that part out?), but you are actually accusing the wrong people.
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@Daniel_Musial shut up about free use laws. Your talking about it like no one knows about it.
don’t complain here if you refuse to turn off the music, you need to appeal on youtube as greenheart games didn’t make the music.
also, no one accused you of committing a crime. so stop ranting on here about copyright laws that NOBODY cares about. if you refuse to turn off the music keep getting your videos claimed… no body cares. It is not greenheart game’s fault your getting videos claimed, you’re purely being ignorant and stubborn.
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@khal00d352 I’m sorry you feel it is nessary to ban people from a forum for complaining that the very same company is threatening legal actions against. To censor out a issue rather than resolve it peacefully, and injustly abuse said people who are complaining. If anyone is doing anything wrong it is you.
@Rex0099 No one cares about your whiteknighting for a company plain out ignoring the rights the user base has, stepping all over them, and justifing it as permissions. It isn’t ignorance, or arogence to further defend my own god damn fair use rights which you seem to ignore to justify and whiteknight a companies statements despite their actions being other wise. It is how ever arrogance and ignorance to ignore these issues that rave and plague this forum because much of the same issue has happen repetitively.
So please tell them they are all arrogant and ignorant when they have a issue with it. And next time someone walks all over your rights and treats you like a animal don’t expect me to be there, no I will be doing exactly as you are and playing it like your rights are privileges that you do not have because dickbagmceeges decided too bend you over a table and violate your rights.
@Pastract Thank you for being civil,
First this issue should have been resolved with them and the third parties as this is a repetitive issue.
2nd I did it in a live stream, which youtube disables editing on for some strange reason preventing people from removing sound if contentID. So litterally the only thing you really can do is fight the claim or worry with a constant threat that you will be facing possible legal actions, while having the video basically banned from nearly all countries… Or take the video down, only makes me want to go into a rant on how broken the content ID system is.
3rd I recieved contentID fought it, dispute failed and I recieived a strike, even though what they pointed at I was actually talking about the music in the game.
Do you set “paid advertisements” on? If yes, then you can’t use copyrighted stuff, unless autor agrees.
If not, some licenses types don’t let you use things without authors knowledge, no matter is it profitable for you or not.
(sorry for so short reply, android keyboard is sh*t)
@Jakub That isn’t how copyright law works. You can by all means do a review, a lets play, or pretty much any style of video on a copyrighted piece of work so long as it follows fair use, with or without monetary means on a without pleading with the copyright holders, or do you just ignore review sites in their entirety? In fact if you put up any copyrighted without monetary means, without any fair use clause, and nothing but it, it would by all means be a copyright infringement.
You think there would be a negative review on anything if we were not allowed to talk/show about it without pleading and begging to not be basically smacked around into coherently just repeating what they wanted to hear? No.
You see this is why I keep pointing out fair use, and the least they could do is leave us alone in our own living rooms but no that is not going to happen so long as people defend their actions…
@Daniel_Musial The Music is copyrighted. You did it and cant do anything about it. Its the owner of the music that said he wanted the music to be invisible for the let’s plays ITS THE OWNERS POWER and you still cant do anything about it!
@khal00d352 This is the problem with todays kids they don’t understand rights are rights and fight and defend for companies that don’t care about anything other than their money. I’m sorry but it isn’t the “OWNERS POWER” to step over our rights. We have the right to review, talk about, and speak how ever we want about their “copyrighted” material, if you don’t like it you can move to a country where you have no rights like North Korea, but that still wont change my rights to freely speak about it. To review it in a fair use means, and present it in a fair use means.
hell if we use your justification more than half of all media would be censored out, incarnation would be much farther through the roof, and hell everyone here might aswell be living in a dictatorship. Slaves would still be slaves because “OWNERS POWER”, and folks like you would be licking the boots of a daisy chain system were the only way to improve your quality of life is to suck up to these “OWNERS” that apparently have all the rights to everything you own and you nothing. It really does not take much thought to see that your justification is mearly a defense means without much thought put into it, with complete and utter disregard for not only my rights but your own.
THE OWNER NEEDS SPECIFIC RIGHTS AND RESPECT!
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Seriously, all they’re saying is you have to mute the background music… if you even LOOKED at the topic @iSenzo posted earlier then you will see that the royalty free music they used is automatically being claimed! GhG isn’t giving you the copyright strikes, or even affecting them!
Whilst I do agree with this, it may not have been doable. After all, the music they used was royalty-free, which they probably found on some website that didn’t include contact details to the artist and/or people responsible. This is just guesswork and not based on facts, however.
However, Greenheart Games is not the one to blame for your copyright strike. Whilst it is their game you were reviewing, and the music is part of the game, they do not own (any) rights to the music, thus it is not their fault. Granted this should have been mentioned in their EULA, but with a little bit of searching you could have easily found out that a lot of people are getting content IDs because of the background music, therefor you could have taken the necessary action.