Boutique game soundtrack record label. We create, manage, and protect some of the most popular video game soundtracks, piano collections & vgm covers albums.
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.
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.
Did you know we added new categories to the 65th #GRAMMYs including Best Score Soundtrack For Video Games?
What's your favorite video game #soundtrack? ⬇️