It’s a hot summer night and you want to kick back, relax and let the smooth sounds of Donkey Kong Country’s watery atmosphere take you away. The problem is that the YouTubers who have switched to it had to pull out their videos containing your favorite track. Sucks, doesn’t it? Yes, but if you’re surprised, you must be unfamiliar with Nintendo’s history of strict copyright protection.
Although I no longer make YouTube videos, Nintendo’s creation of the Creators Program in 2018 was bad news for YouTubers. This move meant that in order to upload and monetize videos containing screenshots and still images from Nintendo games, we had to be accepted into this program as well as share the advertising revenue generated from our videos.
However, if you’re not a part of this program, like yours really is, and you still make videos with copyrighted material, you run the risk of having your videos de-circulated, which is exactly what happened to my accessibility review of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Bree. In 2018, after an intense backlash, Nintendo ditched the software and now allows people to use stills and screenshots from their games as long as they provide their own feedback.
Nintendo is so protective of its music, that it was so in June of this year Reported by Kotaku They have filed more than 500 copyright claims for videos uploaded to their YouTube channel Dioxys, which contains playlists of soundtracks for various video games including Gears of War 4 and multiple Sonic games. Another music creator, SynaMax, posted a file video To his channel saying, “On May 31, a lawyer from Nintendo called me and asked me to remove nine videos from the channel.” The SynaMax videos were referring to the copyrighted premium Metroid Prime music.
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In the video, SynaMax added, “My research videos on music from Metroid Prime as well as music made in the style of Kenji Yamamoto, these are all ok because it’s not Nintendo’s copyrighted music.” Understandably, Nintendo doesn’t want anyone to use copyrighted music, but the company doesn’t really give people much of a choice. You can’t buy the soundtrack in album form, and you can’t stream their classic tunes on Spotify (although there are plenty of lo-fi remixes out there).
Nintendo’s unwillingness to make its music publicly available outside of its games is unexpected. If you want to file a copyright claim for a channel’s video, that’s one thing, because that allows Nintendo to make money from its own holdings without removing the video, but having the channels take down the videos is pretty cruel, and undermines the hours that creators often put work into the content. their own. Why not cut a deal with Spotify to put their music out there? Why doesn’t Nintendo just upload the soundtrack itself to its YouTube channel? Or they can just create a YouTube channel dedicated solely to their music. It will be a hit!
Doing any of these things will reduce headaches for both Nintendo and the creators. It hurts me to see my YouTube friends tweeting about the endless copyright violations they receive from Nintendo, as well as other studios and companies. Ultimately, these channels just want to entertain people, and it should be easier to access and use certain types of music. It should be easier to obtain licenses to use music through the appropriate channels.
Yes, everyone knows of popular series like Mario and others, but Nintendo’s not making their music available on any music-based platform is robbing their fans of nostalgia. Music is a gateway to nostalgia, and the more people have access to it, the more popular the music and the properties associated with it.
I love nothing more than waking up in the gym listening to the soundtrack from Mario Kart 64 or the Metroid Prime series during my daily workouts. Until that’s possible, I think there’s not much I can do but listen to “Paint It Black” on repeat.
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