Nintendo is well-known for the aggressive safety of its manufacturers, and the YouTuber behind the favored collection of “PokeNational Geographic” movies claims to be on the receiving finish of copyright strikes from the corporate.
In line with the creator of the video collection, Elious, his channel has been hit with dozens of copyright strikes by Nintendo of America, and he solely has a couple of days left till it’s deleted. Due to the a number of strikes issued in opposition to 20 of his movies and YouTube’s three-strikes coverage, the channel is about to be deleted from the platform in per week. As for the movies in query, Elious has been producing quick nature documentaries that includes Pokemon, utilizing unique custom-made animations.
“I’ve seven days till my channel is deleted,” Elious defined in a video on a special channel. “Nintendo of America has copyright striked so a lot of my movies. They’ve finished it a number of instances now, inside the span of 12 hours. “I am downloading stuff of course–I’ve all of the movies myself–but I will by no means have the ability to put up them once more. And I will by no means have the ability to use this channel once more. Over 100,000 subscribers, over three years of creating these animations, and it is all going to be gone in seven days.”
What might need caught Nintendo’s authorized eye are two issues: the audio from these movies, as they use the sprite-like roars of Pokemon–which Elious stated are beneath three seconds and fall beneath honest use–and the formation of a Patreon to permit followers to financially help the creation of latest movies. The creator is keen to take down the movies to appease Nintendo, however he is lamenting the truth that he’ll be shedding a channel that he spent years rising.
“I have been Elious of Elious Leisure, and PokeNational is over. It is over.”
Nintendo has taken on a number of YouTubers prior to now, though these movies have been centered on piracy and livestreaming the corporate’s video games earlier than they had been formally launched. In late 2024, Nintendo cracked down on YouTube channels that demonstrated video games working on emulators, and a YouTuber who uploaded high-quality Nintendo soundtracks was issued hundreds of copyright strikes in opposition to their channel and finally closed it.