Beat Saber YouTubers are having videos blocked because of Jimmy Fallon
Beat Saber's vibrant YouTube community is suffering a swathe of copyright strikes from the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Fallon played the game with Captain Marvel actress Brie Larson while the latter was doing press for Avengers: Endgame, and his distributor, NBC Universal, is apparently issuing copyright claims on videos of the levels he and Larson played. But it may not be doing so intentionally.
There are a couple of reports on Reddit, one of which was relayed to the Beat Saber devs on Twitter. Responding, they say "this is a mistake by YouTube" and "at this moment there is nothing we can do about it." For now, their only suggestion for affected YouTubers is to dispute every claim, thus hopefully raising the issue with human moderators.
The devs also mention they have turned off content ID for $100 Bills, the track mentioned by the fan (and which absolutely slaps, by the way). Content ID is a kind of digital fingerprint which copyright owners can apply to their work. When other users upload videos, they are automatically scanned against a database, and if a chunk of the new video matches an existing one stamped with content ID, a copyright claim can automatically be issued.
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