Youtube blocking my Halo 4 videos - need advice, please help!

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  • Youtube blocking my Halo 4 videos - need advice, please help!

    Hi guys - I desperately need your help & any advice is appreciated!

    So my buddy and I made some videos of us playing Halo 4 co-op campaign and uploaded them - they were NOT monetised, but we got a notice saying "Your video "Halo 4: Co-op Campaign (Part 1)" , may have content that is owned or licensed by Canal Plus. As a result, the video has been blocked on YouTube. This claim is penalizing your account status. Visit your Copyright Notice page for more details on the policy applied to your video."

    The issue is that our video is no different from hundreds of other Halo 4 videos currently on youtube (e.g. here , here and here) - many of which are monetised! I can't figure out why ours is being blocked, but others aren't.

    [We disputed the claim, giving the reason that "This video was created under Microsoft's "Game Content Usage Rules" using assets from Halo 4 and or Halo: Reach, © Microsoft Corporation", so the video is now viewable. But having read what people think about disputing claims around here, i'm starting to regret it...]

    So what are the other Halo 4 uploaders doing that we aren't? Are they monetising their videos & then disputing the claim under fair use? Is there some trick that i'm missing to avoid such issues?

    The post was edited 1 time, last by biomech ().

  • Halo 4 can't be monetised anyway because of the terms and conditions set by Microsoft for all Microsoft Studios games. Canal Plus seem to be one of many entertainment media firms that are claiming copyright on random game footage. I had the same problem with Resident Evil 6 but with other random firms. The best thing to do is wait it out until Youtube sort it out or become partnered. Times are changing for gaming videos everywhere sadly :(
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  • Noirproxy wrote:

    Halo 4 can't be monetised anyway because of the terms and conditions set by Microsoft for all Microsoft Studios games. Canal Plus seem to be one of many entertainment media firms that are claiming copyright on random game footage. I had the same problem with Resident Evil 6 but with other random firms. The best thing to do is wait it out until Youtube sort it out or become partnered. Times are changing for gaming videos everywhere sadly :(

    Microsoft is a bitch when it comes down to their content , they have a no moneytizing/partner policy for their games (especially halo 4) and will flag everything they see. And yes its against partners as well who don't even moneytize since microsoft stated somewhere that if you signed a contract with a network that you agreed that you will be payed or something like that. Multiple people are having problems with this as far as I heard.



  • Cirno wrote:

    Noirproxy wrote:

    Halo 4 can't be monetised anyway because of the terms and conditions set by Microsoft for all Microsoft Studios games. Canal Plus seem to be one of many entertainment media firms that are claiming copyright on random game footage. I had the same problem with Resident Evil 6 but with other random firms. The best thing to do is wait it out until Youtube sort it out or become partnered. Times are changing for gaming videos everywhere sadly :(

    Microsoft is a bitch when it comes down to their content , they have a no moneytizing/partner policy for their games (especially halo 4) and will flag everything they see. And yes its against partners as well who don't even moneytize since microsoft stated somewhere that if you signed a contract with a network that you agreed that you will be payed or something like that. Multiple people are having problems with this as far as I heard.


    If the videos aren't monetized though then Microsoft won't bug you from what I can see. Canal Plus aren't even a proper registered company on the internet. This is just some kind of pirate site trying to make it a hard time for youtubers as god knows how many people will acknowledge the copyright claims. 8|
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  • Noirproxy wrote:

    If the videos aren't monetized though then Microsoft won't bug you from what I can see.

    But somewhere I read that they targeted partners aswell even if they didn't moneytize.

    Also a lot of "bogus" companies like to claim your videos and its kinda easy to dispute the claim if its from a "fake" company. Just write something like that the footage has nothing to do with [enter fail claimer] here and that you are using it for fair use. FYI BMVEntertainment is one of those failclaimers.



  • Thanks for all the replies everyone!

    Noirproxy wrote:

    If the videos aren't monetized though then Microsoft won't bug you from what I can see. Canal Plus aren't even a proper registered company on the internet. This is just some kind of pirate site trying to make it a hard time for youtubers as god knows how many people will acknowledge the copyright claims.
    ^ This is the issue - our Halo videos aren't monetised, and we don't intend to monetise them!

    That's why I can't understand why our videos are getting blocked, but other people's haven't been affected (especially when some other You-tubers clearly are monetising their Halo 4 vids). It's so frustrating :(

  • My video got blocked too, says its blocked worldwide due to visual content from Canal Plus. However, a youtube partner I watch has the exact same footage as me, yet his video isn't blocked. I figured maybe it was the intro or something, but nope, he's got that on his.

    I'm thinking about hitting the "I believe this claim is not valid" but I'm not sure if it'll do any good.

    If it said microsoft, fine. But who da fuq is canal plus?
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  • URGENT MESSAGE FROM TGN REGARDING HALO 4

    Kyle <TGN Community Moderator> wrote:


    Hello, everyone!

    There seems to have been a few miscommunications about Halo 4 in regards to uploading and monetization.Halo 4 campaign mode CANNOT be uploaded at all. There have been cases of partners getting their videos removed and receiving copyright strikes from a network/CMS called "Canal Plus".

    Halo 4 multiplayer CAN be uploaded, but not monetized.

    Please stay on the safe side and do not risk your channel's status by uploading any Halo 4 campaign or by monetizing multiplayer.

    Thanks

    Source : tgn.tv/community/threads/halo-…oad-halo-4-content.12629/



    The post was edited 1 time, last by Cirno ().

  • Canal Plus is bogusness. I disputed my claim and not only does it no longer have blockage, but it can be monetized (not that I'm going to).

    Also I read somewhere that Microsoft had retracted their "NO HALO 4 >:("

    Whoever's getting blocked by Canal Plus, its fake bullshit. Once disputed it goes away. The microsoft part is only from monetized stuff from what I can understand. Perhaps partners are getting in trouble because all videos partners upload are automatically monetized? As partners aren't individual video monetization, they're channel monetization?

    Either way, if you're getting the canal plus... Remove the video or dispute it. I won't say 100% dispute it because it does say if you're found guilty they can punish you all the way up to deleting your account. But Canal Plus and Halo 4 have nothing to do with each other, and that's exactly what I put in my dispute claim and now it's gone with no copyright strike at all. I also included a link to their site canalplus.fr, told them it was a french television site or w/e and also said my halo 4 videos would be non-profit. The dispute claim I used was "Qualifies under fair use" blah blah one. Because the terms state that infringement footage can be considered non infringement if it is 1. Non-Profit and 2. Used in an educational way, such as commentary and all that jazz.

    I'm gonna keep uploading halo 4... Microsoft come at me bros.

    The thing that REALLY pisses me off is the 3 strike rule. If I had uploaded 3 halo 4 videos that caught the Canal Plus bullshit, my account would've been banned before I knew what happened for having 3 strikes lol. Definitely not bulk uploading Halo 4 for now.
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  • Canal Plus? Reminds me of SanomaNL or something like that where they blocked my Lost Planet 2 video just because they reviewed the game and had footage of the intro cutscene and became "HURR DURR WE OWN THIS PART OF TEH GAIM!"

    Got rid of them right quick although I still have a copyright notice saying Capcom owns content in the video which I can't deny since it is basically true.

    I of course have another one that affects one of my Borderlands 2 videos but I'd rather not get into details.

  • Put a watermark in the video. For example somewhere in a corner put a logo for your channel so it doesn't match the Content ID claims.
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  • Cirno wrote:

    URGENT MESSAGE FROM TGN REGARDING HALO 4

    Kyle wrote:


    Hello, everyone!

    There seems to have been a few miscommunications about Halo 4 in regards to uploading and monetization.Halo 4 campaign mode CANNOT be uploaded at all. There have been cases of partners getting their videos removed and receiving copyright strikes from a network/CMS called "Canal Plus".

    Halo 4 multiplayer CAN be uploaded, but not monetized.

    Please stay on the safe side and do not risk your channel's status by uploading any Halo 4 campaign or by monetizing multiplayer.

    Thanks

    Source : tgn.tv/community/threads/halo-…oad-halo-4-content.12629/

    Wow thanks for this post, i was wondering why i couldn't even upload my campaign video for halo 4. Now i know :) Thanks!
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