Nintendo copyright claims strike again, this time with Zelda: Breath of the Wild multiplayer modder
Prolific Zelda streamer and modder PointCrow has been hit by dozens of additional content claims and takedowns on his videos by Nintendo, in the run up to the release of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
PointCrow, who's real name is Eric Morino, has seen several of his videos affected by Nintendo's copyright claims recently, including ones pertaining to his Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod. Needless to say, he is not happy about it.
PointCrow recently released a video about the various claims and takedowns on his channel (a video which he said was vetted by his lawyer before its release).
He revealed that, on 6th April, Nintendo blocked videos on his modified Breath of the Wild multiplayer. He appealed these takedowns, claiming he was «in line with [Nintendo's] content guideline policies».
Following this, Nintendo then «escalated» the situation, and issued PointCrow's YouTube channel (which at the time of writing has 1.61 million subscribers) with multiple copyright strikes.
PointCrow subsequently wrote to Nintendo in a bid to reach an «amicable resolution» following these strikes. You can see this email below:
Nintendo then went on to claim «24 more» of PointCrow's videos.
The content creator stated many of these were Breath of the Wild related videos which were showing modded content. Others were of other modded Nintendo games, such as Pokemon and Mario Odyssey.
However, one removed Breath of the Wild video showed no modded content. It was just «vanilla» gameplay, in PointCrow's words.
«These takedowns may have started with modded content, but they've spiralled into something else entirely,» Morino said in his video.
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