You're absolutely right! Music copyright is a mess, and change is slow, especially in gameaudio. Our team has have helped advise game and music industries for the past decade. We're hopeful that other parties start caring -- and managing -- copyrights more proactively.

Great question! Materia Music Publishing (@MateriaMusicPub) collects the sync/performance royalties on YouTube. For cover song artists who want to collect their *sound recording* revenue on YouTube and other DSPs, we suggest Soundrop, Distrokid, Screenwave, or a similar MCN.

New song by @tobyfox & @1t0lc1! 🟦☁️ SKIES FOREVER BLUE ☁️🟦 🎶 Music/Lyrics by Toby Fox 🎤 Vocals, arrangement by Itoki Hana 🎸 Guitar & Bass by @FamilyJules7x 🎷 Trumpet, saxes, piano, arrangement by @insanerainmusic 🖼️ Art by @_omocat materia.to/SkiesForeverBlueT…

Part of our responsibility as a music publisher and rights administrator, for some incredibly complex rights, is overriding other companies' claims and freeing valid uses (Lets Plays, etc.) It's as complex, difficult, arduous, and unrewarding as it is important.

Game soundtracks are exempted from Content ID (support.google.com/youtube/a… ). That's part of the reason why YouTube shows cover versions as melody claims. Musical works (the separate copyrights for melody, chords, etc) exist in Content ID due to PROs, CMOs, Maria, and others.

Happy birthday #Deltarune. What are your favorite covers and songs from the soundtrack?

Hi folks, thanks for letting us know about this. We help Toby manage his rights and usages like this are not permitted. We will look into it.

Got a favorite game soundtrack #GRAMMYs

We all have weird tastes sometimes 😅

That'd be sweet.