GWR & SRDC
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3 years ago
United States

Deleted your duplicate to avoid clutter, though I don't have a response to the question raised here.

Belgium

That seems more like an oversight than an actual action against speedrunners. They probably put a bunch of their video material into the copyrighted material without reviewing everything manually. That happens quite frequently with other Youtubers. They get picked up in some channel network, had an ancient video of them playing some game and an entire leaderboard gets affected.

GWR were probably not even aware of what videos this would affect.

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ShikenNuggets, MASH and 2 others like this
Canada

I don't know anything about the dealings between GWR and the site (above my paygrade) but regarding the current situation, I would not immediately assume that this was done maliciously (or that they did anything at all, for that matter). As @wartab brought up, this sort of thing happens all the time, and YouTube also loves to automatically claim videos incorrectly. I can't say for sure what did happen, but my gut tells me that GWR did not manually copyright claim hundreds of videos, and that this is probably YouTube's fault.

Also, GWR has responded saying this was an error and that they're investigating: https://twitter.com/GWR/status/1264852069237825536

Update, this is apparently resolved: https://twitter.com/GWR/status/1264893875652636672

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Netherlands

Update from Shiken covers this post.