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List of Video Games with Automatic Copyright Claims IDs on YouTube

What are the differences between copyright claims and copyright strikes? Why does your video get copyright claim IDs? 

We’ve compiled a list of video games on YouTube that have automatic copyright claim IDs below, we recommend you control+F and see if your game is in the list below!

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A copyright claim, which can just be as little as a few seconds of audio or video, or both, can cause an entire YouTube video to become demonetized. It is imperative if you’re uploading gameplay videos such as Let’s Plays that you play games that do not get automatically copyright ID’ed.

Copyright claims are not the same as copyright strikes. Copyright claims are generally when your gameplay gets matched with something an owner has uploaded to the Content ID database.

Usually you get copyright claims when a song plays on your video or when you’re playing a part of the game that was shown as a trailer (video game publishers often upload video game trailers to the Content ID database and don’t remove them after the game releases). Nintendo is a publisher that used to copyright claim every one of their first-party games, but have stopped doing that in recent years, so their games are not on the list.

Copyright strikes, on the other hand, are severe and your YouTube channel will be banned if you get three at one time. Strikes do expire on their own automatically and can also be appealed.

You can get copyright strikes for generally doing bad things, but game publishers don’t usually issue copyright strikes for you playing through a video game. There ARE exceptions though!

Usually Japanese game publishers (Atlus, Koei Tecmo) will actually issue copyright strikes if you play a Japanese game before it releases in North America in English. It usually takes months for a localization if the video game doesn’t have a worldwide release. They get really mad if you also translate the Japanese text into English with commentary.

The reason they do this is because there’s not too many people that do this, so there’s not many people being vocal about receiving copyright strikes. The publisher’s mentality is that they want to keep the Western fanbase unspoiled. Don’t believe us? Look at the Japanese Persona 5 Scramble streaming restrictions from Atlus! Look at historical examples as well, Capcom issued strikes for fan-translations of The Great Ace Attorney, a localized name for a Japanese spin-off of the Ace Attorney franchise.

If you’re a smaller YouTuber who can’t easily contest a strike, best stay away from untranslated games unless they’re old (5-10 years or more) and you’re sure that the publisher won’t issue a strike.

Although we’ve played many video games on our Youtube Channel, the list is not exhaustive, please add a comment or contact us to let us know if you know of any games that have automatic copyright ID on YouTube. Our list will have most recent games listed first.

We will include games that have music only if you aren’t able to mute the music without muting the whole video (unmuteable copyrighted music)! Otherwise, if you’re able to play the game with all sounds and are able to mute out only the music, they won’t be listed. Telltale Games’ video games are an example of this, they have a “streamer option” that will not get your videos copyright claimed.

We won’t include “exceptional” situations that has happened by mistake for only 1 video in our playthroughs. For example, we have received copyright strikes for Forza (a TV channel thought it was real-life racing) and copyright strikes for the WWE 2K video game (a TV channel thought it was real-life wrestling), etc. This list is for mostly automatic copyright claims that demonetize your video.

We won’t include video game that only get 1 claim in a playthrough because most games have one spot where you get a claim; instead, we include games where you get 2+ claims per playthrough.

Summary: If the video game’s not listed, you probably won’t get any copyright claims! Do a control+F and search for a game you want to find out about and if you don’t see it at all, you’re probably fine! (I only list copyright claimed games because otherwise the list would be filled with thousands games that don’t give any copyright claims.) Our list is in reverse chronological order.

The percentage I list is the percentage of an entire playthrough that is claimed (let’s say I have a playthrough of 10 videos, if one video is completely claimed, then 10% of the entire game playthrough claimed).

List of Video Games with Automatic Content ID Copyright Claim on YouTube

The Last of Us Remake (PART-1, released on 2 September 2022) is heavily copyrighted. Most of the claims come from UMG and Extreme Music, and some claims got my videos blocked in Russia, thanks to the webseries under the same name aired on HBO. Some have to be manually edited, while some have to be relied on “Erase Song” feature. In the same phase, The Last of Us Remake (PART-2) follows the same boat. (Credit to @SharanGaming on YouTube)

The Quarry (10 June 2022): This game is notorious for third-party copyrighted music. Even with the streamer mode enabled, it doesn’t even remove third-party copyrighted content. (Credit to @SharanGaming on YouTube)

Tales of Arise (September 9, 2021): 15% was claimed by Avex Inc. It’s only for a song that plays very infrequently throughout the game. The ending cutscenes were also claimed.

Life Is Strange: True Colors (September 9, 2021): 70% was claimed by RouteNote. I made sure to put on streamer mode, but the few songs that played were still claimed anyways, and the claimed song plays very frequently throughout the game.

Road 96 (August 16, 2021):  0% was claimed. It was claimed on release, but the company released the claim with no action on my part. Thank you to the developers and publisher! 

NEO: The World Ends With You (July 27, 2021): ~15% of our videos were claimed. This was done while certain soundtracks played in the game claimed by SourceAudio Holdings LLC. Also, the entire last part (the “final day”) of the game including the final boss and ending was taken down by Square Enix, BUT, thankfully they only took the video down without issuing a copyright strikes – so kudos to them for at least having a modicum of respect for content creators.

Akiba’s Trip: Hellbound and Debriefed (July 20, 2021): 10% of our videos were claimed by CD Baby Sync Publishing. It was claimed through a soundtrack that played in the game, but thankfully the track doesn’t appear in the game frequently.

World’s End Club (May 28, 2021): 70% of our videos were claimed by TuneCore Japan. It was great on release, but recently they’ve been claiming more and more videos through the soundtrack in the game, and unfortunately the track they’re claiming is in a lot of the chapters in the game.

Biomutant (May 25, 2021): 10% of our videos were claimed. It’s only the early main story cutscenes in the beginning of the game that get claimed through a soundtrack that plays, but thankfully doesn’t get played again later in the game.

Laid Back Camp/Yuru Camp Video Game (March 3, 2021): 100% of our videos were claimed by MAGES., who now copyright ID claim all video playthroughs of their games nowadays. It’s claimed through the music, so it may be possible to mute all sounds in the game to prevent claims.

Bravely Default 2 (February 26, 2021): 90% of our videos were claimed. It’s for the music in the game and it’s being claimed by PONYCANYON.

Watch Dogs Legion (October 29, 2020): 50% of our videos were claimed. It’s for the soundtrack in the game for songs such as “Feel Good” and “Sing”. Turn off the soundtrack to avoid these claims!

Robotics;Notes ELITE AND Robotics;Notes DaSH (October 13, 2020): 100% of our videos were claimed. Don’t play any visual novels from 5pb, don’t even put a screenshot of their game in your videos, they claim every single piece of their games. You won’t make a cent as a content creator from playing these games and these developers and publishers have absolutely no respect for content creators. I spent >200 hours making route guides for them and won’t have a penny to my name, I got so many claims that I didn’t even bother uploading our videos for DaSH.

Star Wars Squadrons (October 1, 2020): 90% of our videos were claimed. Unfortunately it’s because of the iconic Star Wars music that plays in the background and it plays very often. You need to look into disabling the music if you don’t want copyright claims.

Mafia 1 Definitive Edition (September 25, 2020): 30% of our videos were claimed. It seems to be a music track in the game called “The Blue Angel”. You may be able to avoid copyright claims if you disable the soundtrack or if you edit out that song yourself, but remember that the music is interspersed with cutscenes so it’s not easy to edit out.

Sword Art Online Alicization Lycoris (July 9, 2020): ~15% of our videos were claimed by NAMCO BANDAI. It seems to be for the cutscenes in game, near the beginning and ending of the game. They blocked our video for showing the ending of the game even though the game was released to the public for weeks.

Final Fantasy VII Remake AND the original Final Fantasy VII (April 10, 2020): >95% of our videos were claimed by Warner Chappell. It’s extremely unfortunate, but even our original FFVII playthrough’s videos were all getting claimed, and the claims come from music that plays throughout the game. It’s not easy to edit out and you might need to mute the soundtrack entirely if you don’t want to get copyright claims from these games. The original Final Fantasy VIII is 100% claimed as well, it’s very sad. We wanted to revisit some classics, but instead we got spammed with hundreds of copyright claim notifications and demonetization.

Persona 5 Royal (March 31, 2020) – 10% of our videos were claimed. It’s mostly when the anime scenes and unique music plays. It’s generally the beginning and the ending of the playthrough’s videos that were claimed. Thankfully it’s not the main soundtrack or boss themes getting claimed, it’s not too bad.

Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate (February 14, 2020) – 40% of our playthrough’s videos were claimed. A lot of the music in these videos is claimed by a Japanese music group called “PONYCANYON” and they won’t release your claims. This music is randomly interspersed between battles and cannot easily be edited out unless you turn off all of the music in the game. A lot of your videos will get blocked and you will not be able to get money off of your videos.

Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot (January 16, 2020) – About 10% of videos were copyright claimed. The only claims happen at the end of each “saga”, and there are three main storyline sagas in the game just like the Dragon Ball Z manga and anime adaptation. It’s a lengthy game, the game being a mix between a JRPG and a fighting-game, took us about 40 hours to beat all the storyline missions, not much copyright claims at all.

Death Stranding (November 8, 2019) – Many storyline missions (~40%) will have mandatory music that will play that you cannot mute in-game; however, this music is easily distinguished from the game (it will show the artist names on-screen before it plays the music) and can be edited out or you can mute your gameplay as soon as you see music is about to play.

Fate/Extella LINK (March 19, 2019) – AVOID THIS AT ALL COST unless you want your YouTube channel shut down. Don’t mix this up with the original Fate/Extella, this LINK version is actually a sequel, the original is OK to play, but NOT the LINK version! We actually got a livestream of ours “blocked”, which actually triggered YouTube robots to automatically issue a 90-day removal of our livestreaming privileges (the mentality behind this is that YouTube assumed if your livestream was “blocked” that you were doing something illegal, like restreaming live TV or movies). Other people have gotten the same punishment as well, see this extensive Steam Community thread. All videos after only the third main mission were blocked in such a fashion! When we asked the publishers why this whole situation happened, we were told that it was because we played the game on the North American release date, but for some reason that was too early because they were releasing the same game 3 days later in Europe and didn’t want us to “spoil the game”. This was never clearly indicated by the developers or publishers beforehand. Now, this all happened when the game was released; HOWEVER, the blocks on our videos after main mission 3 were NOT removed (blocked by Marvelous Inc.), so we strongly believe you will still get punished for streaming or uploading this game on YouTube. This is singlehandedly the worst video game we streamed on YouTube that almost got our YouTube channel permanently shut down and also got our streaming privileges removed for 90 days, even worse than Persona 5’s original streaming restrictions. AVOID uploading/streaming this video game or get shut down.

Steins;Gate: Linear Bounded Phenogram (February 19, 2019) – 100% of videos were claimed. We played the official English translation – the fan-translation and Japanese version existed earlier for some time as back as 2013, but the English translation was released much later. Unfortunately, every video was copyright claimed by “MAGES.inc”, avoid this game. Also, MAGES.inc is retroactively copyright claiming other of our videos of other games we’ve played from them, such as Steins;Gate: Zero and the original.

Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown (January 18, 2019) – About half of all videos from the campaign story mode were claimed, it’s a mixture of audio/visual content, so you’d have to do a lot of editing to get rid of the claims. But strangely, even multiplayer matches uploaded online was getting audio/visual copyright claim, so the claims aren’t just from the storyline cutscenes…

Hitman 2 (November 13, 2018) – Random videos have claimed music in them, ~30% of all videos were copyright claimed. Sometimes this includes random classical sounding music, for example we were claimed for “Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 19: II. Allegro scherzando”. Hitman 2 is a game that is open-world, so you can avoid radios that are playing music or edit it all out, but that’s kind of a pain because it’s very random.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider (September 28, 2018) – Half of videos were claimed by “Endemol International BV Parent”, the music is not easily distinguishable.

Dragon Quest XI (September 4, 2018) – Endings will get “blocked”, which means your video cannot be seen worldwide and you won’t be able to earn money on them, but there is no strike so it’s not that bad. This includes the ending for Act 2 and Act 3 in the game. These are just hour scenes in those endings. The game is a ~100 hour JRPG, so it’s only the ending cutscenes that are blocked, so overall <5% of the videos are claimed.

Little Witch Academia: Chamber of Time (May 15, 2018) – AVOID AT ALL COSTS, they copyright strike you. The Japanese company who owns the game gave me a copyright strike randomly on one of the videos. Remember that copyright strikes are far worse than copyright claims and can actually remove your YouTube channel pretty quickly! I attempted to contest the copyright strike but was unsuccessful, the company only had Japanese emails and I also contested it by contacting YouTube, but YouTube said I had no claim to owning the video and left the strike alone. If you’re a smaller YouTuber, be certain to avoid! EDIT: As of 2021 they started claiming the videos, 50% of our videos were claimed by NexTone Inc. due to the soundtrack.

Proof (it says it’s a copyright strike, but it was actually a copyright takedown where they removed my video from being viewed, you will always get a copyright strike when you get a copyright takedown):

Far Cry 5 (March 27, 2018) – ~40% of videos claimed, songs will play during mandatory storyline missions.

Hack G.U. Last Recode (November 3, 2017) – >90% of videos were claimed due to copyrighted music. It doesn’t sound like regular music, though, it’s something strange like the battle theme played during battles that triggers it, you can’t easily edit it out due to the high number of claims. Avoid.

Get Even (June 23, 2017) – A few copyright claims (~10%) due to copyrighted music being used. Claim is “Signal Bars” from “CD Baby”

The Surge (May 16, 2017) – The majority of the game (>90%) has copyrighted music playing, all except maybe 1 or 2 videos in our playthrough was claimed. Avoid.

Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 (April 25, 2017) – A few scenes (<10%) in the game will have copyrighted music playing. One example of a claim was “Rude Boy (Dance Hall Riddim)”

Horizon Zero Dawn (February 28, 2017) – About 30% of videos were copyright claimed, the music isn’t distinguishable, just sounds like regular video game music, but it is claimed by “Illustrated Sound Music”.

Yakuza 0 (January 24, 2017) – The “Catfight Club” minigame will automatically generate copyright ID claims due to unmuteable copyrighted music playing. This is generally an optional minigame, so you can mute your own audio when you play the minigame or easily edit it out because it is easily distinguishable, or even avoid playing it entirely when doing livestreams or uploading a Let’s Play.

Tales of Berseria (January 24, 2017) – A few skits in the game will automatically generate a copyright ID claim, see this video and here as an example of copyrighted skits (a part of the game demo which is also present in the main game), but most of the game will not generate copyright ID claims (<5% claimed)

Forza Horizon 3 (September 27, 2016) – It has a music volume bar, but it doesn’t let you play the music at “0”, the minimum value for the music volume is actually “1”, meaning the music always plays, and all of the music will have an automatic copyright ID claim. You can’t easily edit out the music unless you mute out the whole thing, but then you can’t hear your car engines or other racing sounds. For us, all videos were claimed.

God Eater 2: Rage Burst (August 30, 2016) – Endings and certain cutscenes are claimed due to copyrighted music playing, but it’s ~10% of all videos because this is a very lengthy game, Rage Burst is actually an extended version of the original God Eater 2, probably a JRPG of about 100 hours of which only under 10 hours were claimed.

Sherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Daughter (June 10, 2016) – About 70% of videos claimed due to copyrighted music used, the music was not easily distinguishable, it sounds like generic video game music. This is a game that takes place in the late 19th century and doesn’t have recognizable music at all!

Until Dawn (August 25, 2015) – All videos were claimed by WMG, the music isn’t easily distinguished and is not easy to edit out, seems to be audiovisual copyright ID. The entire game will get copyright IDs.

Persona 4 Golden (June 14, 2012) – Only 2 claims in a ~60 hour JRPG (<5%), not bad, most claims are near the beginning of the video, it’s a combination of video and audio being claimed here and here were scenes claimed.

Tales of Phantasia (December 15, 1995) – All videos were copyright claimed for music. The battle theme that plays every battle triggers copyright ID due to singing, and you’ll be fighting in hundreds of battles throughout the game. You need to do a lot of editing if you want to avoid the claims. Avoid.

Shin Megami Tensei (SMT), for SMT1, SMT2, and SMT: If (1990’s) – We played through the English fan translations, but unfortunately it seems the battle themes that will always play frequently (you go through hundreds of battles in each of these games) will always get copyright claims. >95% of all videos from the original SMT, its sequel SMT 2, as well as the sequel/spin-off SMT: If, were claimed by the copyright holder. It’d be a pain to edit out all the battle music because you’re in-and-out of battle very frequently. The old SMTs don’t have proper towns, battle encounters can happen almost anywhere. Avoid.

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