'Pokémon Reorchestrated' Has Its 'Kanto Symphony' Album Removed From YouTube By The Pokémon Company

This is probably the poor service from Youtube. Youtube doesn't have people removing videos but its being monitored. Several youtubers are given strikes without any reason whatsoever.

That's Pokemon Company for you, willing to sue over a person making a Pokemon theme party over at his cafe, think they're so freaking important that they wouldn't even allow Nintendo to put Pokemon crys in Mario Maker, and even took down a FREE fan made 3D Pokemon game that is basically free advertising.

It's quite disgusting what YouTube has become. It all boils down to $$$. Any corporation that sees any of their property in a video without consent can take said video down. The fair use rule has been abused by companies mainly in part because they aren't getting a cut of the $$$ from ad revenue for the property they created, even if the video is promoting their property. This type of channel promotes Pokémon, but they don't see it that way. Nintendo and the Pokémon Company alike both want total control of their assets, they've always been like that and always will be.

Ugh...Youtube is pretty much messed up at this point.

YouTube has been acting really broken with copyright strikes so I'm honestly not surprised. You have Channel Awesome (Nostalgia Critic), I Hate Everything, Your Movie Sucks, and various other channels having these issues all of sudden regardless if the content in question is under fair use or not.

Remember, corporations don't have 'feelings'. They don't have misgivings about their actions. Then there are the people in a corporation, but don't confuse their humanity and sense of justice with the legal response of the corporation, those rarely ever mix from my experience

"It's a real shame that fans who dedicate their time and craft in producing such excellent forms of art due to their passion for a series are continuously being wrist-slapped."

@SM4SHshorts
Oh please...

How is this even legal? He even said he's paying licensing to the Pokemon company. How can they just declare without informing him properly that his videos were in violation? This just reeks of YouTube corruption like usual.

@Chaoz
That was a completely separate matter. The company was making money off of their actions, unsolicited from the Pokemon company and well more than minor amounts to set up the event. The concerning part about this is that the people are already paying licensing fees meaning that the Pokemon company had previously allowed this and did not approach them but rather just went to youtube claiming that they were making illegal content.

Doug Walker brought this up not too long ago but the thing with Youtube is that there isnt some person monitoring the site for violations. The whole process is completely autonomous which likely explains alot

Anyone can anonymously strike videos for copyright without holding the rights to. Youtube handles this poorly.

@LordGeovanni
He probably violated his license agreement and/or failed to renew it.
Though it is possible that YouTube copyright system did it as a mistake.

Somebody turn off the Youtube Auto-pilot please...

@Xenocity
Yeah but my point is that there are much easier and much better looking ways to discuss it with the individual rather than immediately go for the delete button. There's no way that this individual was in a meaningful purposeful violation. Not with the evidence that he was already paying licensing.

@Splatburst Oh yes! Please, your point kind sir...

@LordGeovanni
We don't know the terms of the license and his on going dealings with TPCi.

He probably didn't read this license properly and/or didn't renew it.
He probably violated it and then tried to renegotiate the license.

This stuff normally kept private.

Not surprised - youtube is bleeding money as of now. It's to Google what is TV dep to Sony.
They hope to streamline it to TV and dump the youtoube we know. Nobody cares about nobodies or idiots living for 10+ years of it. You're either pewdiepie or whatever he's called or you're out.

The copyright thing will come more and more common.

@Dave24
YouTube is bleeding less money now than it was when Google Bought it in 2007.

YouTube is now just bleeding hundreds of millions of U.S. Dollars just operating.
It's down from the billions in a few years ago.

Google has literally lost almost $10 Billion U.S. running YouTube.

Good old youtube.

@callmeking17 Nintendo has backed off a fee times ow on the Youtube stuff. Though Nintendo never has had a problem with you posting videos of their stuff on YouTube. They just didn't want you making money off it. If you don't monetize the videos your fine.

Yeah, I highly doubt all the fault is on the Pokemon's Company's side, Youtube has been screwing over thousands of channels in just the past few months.

PC probably made the strikes, sure, but this Youtube copyright crap needs to be double checked big time.

What's wrong with you Youtube? I liked these songs...

Sounds like a screwed up situation, but lately, all of YouTube has been a screwed up situation.

When legendary music producer Alan Parsons gets some of his own music automatically taken down by... himself, there's a serious problem.

Oh look, it's the Fi-uh I mean Mario Bros here to copyright claim your videos.

@Nin-Stream That is my point exactly, they wouldn't want the person making money on the video because they aren't getting a cut of it. There is no system in place for these types of situations (their YouTube program does not count in this situation). Unless its directly ripping off/copying what they are doing, it should lie within fair use. People spend a lot of time and effort into creating videos for stuff they love, and the amount of money they get from ad revenue is pennies to Nintendo/The Pokemon Company, but they still take stuff down because they want control over their property.

Youtube has been having serious issues with random copyright strikes on people's channels with no reason given, and then not communcaying to content creators about it in a timely manner resulting in the content creatots having to wait fot a lengthly period of time without revenue from their videos to get it resolved, IF it even gets resolved.

Right now Youtube is all messed up, and it saddens me when I see yet another great channel affected by it.

@Socar @Detective_TeeJay I was actually given a strike on a video that had No copyrighted material in it, and then on another time, my Adsense was also taken down, because the automated system thought i was doing inappropriate clicks. I reached out to them both times and they apologized on both accounts and removed the strike and reinstated my Adsense as well as giving me the money from Ads that I got during that 3 week downtime. So it really is a computer doing this for the most part, but this instance was The Pokemon Company removing something that had no right being removed.

@callmeking17 My point is if you don't monetize your video Nintendo wont take any action on your video.

Why does Nintendo treat its fans like trash? Is this their corporate policy?

What is up with the pitchforks? We don't know anything about the agreements signed between the artist and TPC or Nintendo. I know its the in thing to demonize every company because they have money but sometimes its a mistake and sometimes the company is in the right. Why not wait until we actually know more?

@GunplaGamer How can you say there's "no right"? You don't know what was involved here, nor the full terms of said license that was mentioned above.

@TingLz I am just going by what I read in the article, sure there could be something else but what the article said it seems they had no right.

This is ridiculous. What year Nintendo lives in? 1987?

@LordGeovanni yeah, that's what stuck out from the whole thing. pay the fees, still have it deleted. odd. dunno who's at fault here, tho'. tpc or youtube or gremlins or whatever.

If he pays royalties for the music they have no right to pull his playlist. He should fight this.

@GunplaGamer Even then, the fact that Youtube doesn't provide basic communications nor doesn't monetize majority of the channels just proves that Youtube is the big blamer here. Who knows, Maybe The Pokemon Company knew about this guy and there's a bug on Youtube that he doesn't own the songs in fair use and now this happened.

YouTube and The Pokemon Company are bags of sh*t as always.

If it was Pokémon then a remake of red blue confirmed?! One can hope Yeah it was pretty much a robot who did this which sucks for this guy hopefully it doesn't go for his other music which could in turn get him a third copyright strike

Failure!! I think they should put it somewhere else, where people can also hear it for free!!

I heard they did two seperate notices in quick succession, forcing two copyright strikes on the channel.

Three strikes and you're out. It's only by the grace of the Pokemon Company that the channel is still up. They could very well have filed three seperate claims and the channel would have been gone.

Youtube. So much for a website run by a company - Google - whose slogan is literally "Don't be evil"...

@TossedLlama
Admittedly, he was Dancing on a High Wire with this concept, but he had Nothing Left to Lose.

@Mando44646 This was Pokemon Company, not Nintendo.

Stop blaming YouTube, they have nothing to do with this, what is wrong with you people?
It is the idiots at the Pokémon company who filed this, YouTube simply has to obey to what they say since its their content.
If you want change, then let's sign a petition telling the Pokemon Company to run off or let us fans be fans.

As long as we fans are OK with this behavior, The Pokemon Company will continue being jerks.

@MIDP
Late to the party, eh? Here's a good primer to catch you up on the skull@#$%ery happening on YouTube right now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC3NIdiZF_E

@TingLz I'm not sure how much of the rumour's true, but I know someone from Japan who says that there's a rumour going around in Japan that The Pokemon Company is actually being run by the Japanese mafia. Again I'm not sure if we'll ever know for sure, but given the company's recent behavior it honestly wouldn't surprise me...

@Neko_Ichigofan Do I need to explain how ridiculous that sounds?

@TingLz True, but then again SEGA had ties with the Japanese mafia back in the 90's. And honestly people from Japan likely know more regarding this than we do. There's even an article on this website stating that a someone at Nintendo had a family member who was kidnapped by a competing company with ties to the mafia back in the 90's so it's not like it's impossible.

While I won't deny that it is possible, what exactly have they done to make them "the mafia"? Enforcing licensing agreements and copyright? Heck, you might as well label Disney as "the mafia"