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JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

undertale is one of the best indie games that has ever been released with its fantastic writing touching and funny story relatable characters and high quality Sprite art however undertale is also known for having one of the best soundtrack in video game history with the OST getting millions of views on YouTube alone it gets to the point where there have been thousands of fan remixes new unique music using undertale as inspiration YouTubers like myself using undertale’s music as background music in their own videos and fan games taking years of development which includes remixes and covers of different themes from the game how ever undertale soundtrack is in danger allow me to tell you a story about how one fan game has completely changed the dynamic of how undertale’s music is handled and the company behind undertale’s music publishing is going against Toby Fox’s wishes this is the story of how undertale’s music is in copyright hell Our Story begins with well me and this awesome fan game called undertale yellow that took 7 years to develop it also begins with Materia music publishing and if you don’t know who they are they’re basically the people that publish undertale and delun soundtrack they handle all the legal stuff surrounding the music so Toby doesn’t have to deal with it himself including copyright now for you to understand this story let’s go back to a little bit before undertale yellow’s release material music publishing has always caused a lot of problems with people using undertale’s music specifically through YouTube’s copyright system basically a couple years back undertale’s music was always getting copyright claimed left and right on YouTube through their autoc claim system and once I got claimed there was nothing that you could really do about it now Mr Toby Fox didn’t actually want this happening so when he talked to material music publishing they basically told him that there was nothing that they can really do that there isn’t a quote do nothing option in YouTube’s copyright system that prohibit autoc claims however Toby wasn’t willing to back down with how his music was being handled so he struck a deal with material music and publicly released a statement saying that if any song from the undertale Deltron soundtrack ended up getting autoc claimed that you should dispute it and it should be resolved and that was supposedly the end of it unfortunately I wouldn’t be making this video if that were the case this brings us to today undertale yellow if you don’t know what undertale yellow is it’s probably one of the most hype undertale fan games that has ever been in development this thing took 7 years to develop and truly was a 10 out of 10 experience it’s clear that the team behind it really designed this game as a love letter to undertale the writing the gameplay the art and the music it’s all so good however remember material music yeah yeah they didn’t actually like the concept of pieces of undertale’s music being included in their soundtrack which in return had a massive domino effect with how undertale soundtrack is being handled in the YouTube copyright system and it’s in the most infuriating way so let me tell you the story of one of the most obsurd enraging and disgusting moments in undertale’s history I should preface this story by saying that if I’m seeming a little bit too dramatic or emotional at points it’s mainly just me being entertaining and additionally this isn’t meant to complete completely on material music it’s meant to be constructive criticism because what happened with them handling this situation truly needs to have attention brought to it so what better way to bring attention to it is by making a video on it without other way let’s begin officially all right so the date is December 9th and undertale yellow just dropped hundreds of content creators around the world are currently playing the game and that includes me hi I was streaming the game on the day it was released and the day after because I was feeling really sick on release day either way my plan for these two streams was to combine them together and upload one really long playthrough the game because having these two streams be separate is kind of weird and I thought that I was going to be able to do this without much of a problem of course given the context of what I talked about in the intro it was certainly much of a problem now before I go ahead and talk about what the problem is and obviously it’s going to be with Materia music I should note that Materia music didn’t actually do anything to either of these live streams when they were initially finished keep this in mind anyway combining these two streams actually did end up being slightly annoying as it took me roughly around 10 hours for my computer to render the full SU hour video however I created a thumbnail and uploaded the video to YouTube expecting everything to be all fine and dandy I mean especially because both these live streams didn’t end up getting copyright claimed at all it’s also important to say that I don’t usually have problems with material music claiming my videos weirdly enough they typically only claim my live streams so since undertale yellow consists of unique remixes and original music I wasn’t worried about copyright claims at all however then I uploaded this video turns out that when YouTube finished checking the video the autoclaim system had detected that the song enemy approaching from undertale soundtrack Was Heard for 10 seconds of the video in the entire 6 hours was completely not able to be monetized this obviously made me upset but I was used to stuff like this at this point as a YouTuber so I sent in my dispute knowing that they would remove the claim because that’s what Toby Fox told them to do however instead of waiting for the claim to be released I decided to just cut the part out myself and render the video for another 10 hours I figured that would be faster than waiting for them to release the claim because it takes between a day and 2 days for the claim to be removed anytime I get one so that’s what I did only for YouTube’s autoclaim system to once again detect the same song enemy approaching in a completely different spot this gave me a horrible realization the battle music is getting claimed this meant that no matter what I did past this point I would not be able to cut out the copyrighted music because it’s the battle music that’s getting claimed so my only option at this point was to wait for Materia to release dispute however I heard from my friend Shay that contacting material directly can help speed up the process so that’s what I did I added them on Twitter and they responded with ping I

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