New Super Mario Brothers DS Community Project (2-1-23) sportymariosonicmix3. Thankfully it sounds like Guinness have cooled their trigger finger. speedruns, leaderboards, forums and more on Speedrun. Yes, indeed.įunnily enough, even Jobst's video on the subject initially got slapped with a copyright claim. 'Please be sure to use the Copyright Match Tool responsibly,' they say. YouTube's breakdown on how their Content ID works suggests that some intent is required to act on a copyright match made by its system. There's probably some human error at work here, especially as this came up months after Guinness posted their profile on Kosmic. It's not quite clear exactly how the mistake got made.

Apparently YouTube's Content ID system managed to mistake a bunch of other SMB speedruns for Kosmic's and sent them copyright notices too. Fellow speedrunner Karl Jobst hopped on the case to rally everyone else who had been similarly affected.Īs Jobst points out in his own video, speedrunning is such a methodical art that, by nature, a lot of speedrun footage looks very, very similar. It wasn't just Kosmic's own footage that was caught in the cross-hairs though. This all came to a head after Kosmic says he got 40 copyright claims emailed to him simultaneously. Sorry for causing concern, we know how distressing it can be to get these notificationsĭan- Guinness World Records To see this content please enable targeting cookies.

This appears to have been an error with automatic claims from our channel's Content ID system. Apologies to our record holders & anyone else affected.

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