Nintendo and Minecraft is the gaming mash-up that you never thought could happen. But after the game was ported to the Wii U, it seemed more than likely that such a thing would exist. The Super Mario Mash-Up pack recently came out as free game update to Minecraft: Wii U Edition‘s digital game. It has new skins, a Super Mario world to play around in, and Super Mario music and textures. Naturally, YouTube would be the place where channels would want to show off that new Nintendo related content to their audiences.
But according to a tweet by NintendoImpactGaming, not even Minecraft is safe from being contentID claimed by Nintendo on YouTube.
@4JStudios @Minecraft @Mojang Why am I getting a copyright notification on my Minecraft video? I thought we wouldn't pic.twitter.com/MzjyRHMd1t
— 🚀🌌 Barry Dunne | Impact Game Station 👨🏾🚀🎮 (@ImpactGameStat) May 18, 2016
They attached the following picture to their tweet, showing the situation they were dealing with.
YouTube’s contentID system is known for being ruthless and unforgiving. YouTuber Angry Joe went to war with the policies on multiple occasions these past few years. In this specific case, it appears that music from Super Mario 64‘s soundtrack, along with another Nintendo sound recording, were present in the YouTube video.
But even the development team at 4J Studios is unaware of why Minecraft‘s Mario Mash-up is being claimed by the automated system.
We're hearing reports of copyright strikes on Super Mario Mash-Up videos. We were assured this wouldn't happen. Following up with Nintendo.
— 4J Studios (@4JStudios) May 19, 2016
4J Studios is the company that worked with Mojang on porting Minecraft to different last and current generation console systems. They seemed to have anticipated this problem with YouTube to come up, and tried to prevent it themselves. Hopefully, both parties can settle this issue quickly.
