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I got a copyright claim on the Super Mario Bros. 2 first level music by this company. I looked it up and apparently they made a remix of the music and are claiming a match from music coming straight out of the console! (Or a clone console in this case.) Sigh ...

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If you start to follow some music channels on YouTube you’ll see how these copyrights claims are a plague that is destroying all the musicians community. If you look for Rick Beato on YouTube, he made a very interesting video with a lawyer about how to fight back!

I had claim against me for a vintage 1980's video I posted of an organist playing "Oh, Holy Night" by a Mexican Ska band who covered the song in 2005. I said it was impossible unless the organist had invented time travel and gone to 2005 to steal the song, then returned to the 1980s to record it...

Not to mention the song was written in 1847 and is in the public domain. They never replied, and the YouTube dispute clock ran out after 30 days - victory by default. My advice, file a dispute to the claim, it will probably run its course with no reply and in 30 days you'll be in the clear...