{"id":177881,"date":"2023-01-05T14:40:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T14:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/youtuber-fought-back-against-nintendo-dmca-notice-and-won\/"},"modified":"2023-01-05T14:40:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T14:40:03","slug":"youtuber-fought-back-against-nintendo-dmca-notice-and-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/youtuber-fought-back-against-nintendo-dmca-notice-and-won\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTuber fought back against Nintendo DMCA notice and won"},"content":{"rendered":"
A hot potato:<\/strong> Nintendo is so hawkish about its IPs that whenever we report on someone doing something cool with, let’s say, Mario Bros, we almost always include an obligatory, “Let’s see how long Nintendo lawyers allow this to remain online” sidenote. Most of the time, it doesn’t take long, and that’s the end of it, but not this time. <\/p>\n Last October, video-gaming history channel DidYouKnowGaming (DYKG) posted a 20-minute documentary on a formerly unknown and unpublished Nintendo DS game, Heroes of Hyrule. As the name connotes, it was a Zelda spinoff planned for Nintendo’s popular portable. The video remained on YouTube for nearly 90 days before DYKG received a copyright warning and automatically removed it from public view on December 28.<\/p>\n Channel operator Shane Gill said the copyright strike accused him of using “unauthorized material” in his video. One can assume it was referring to the 22-page pitch document that DYKG obtained legally from former Retro employees. Gill maintains that he used the material for journalistic purposes and adhered to the Fair Use Doctrine. So he filed a counterclaim with YouTube saying as much.<\/p>\n Because Nintendo’s claim was that we were using “unauthorized material” despite us acquiring it legally and presenting it in accordance with fair use. Their intent was to scrub this piece of journalistic work from the internet because they didn’t like what it uncovered.<\/p>\n\n