In case you've been out of the loop for the past month, let me explain to you why these two videos were re-uploaded. Prepare for a lot of text, I'm not even gonna add a TL:DR because this is important:

On October 24th, nearly a month ago, King Dice and Floral Fury were copyrighted by a company called Create Music. I had never heard of this company before, so I quickly emailed 3 different companies: YouTube, MDHR (Cuphead Devs), and Create Music. MDHR unfortunately never got back to me. I emailed them twice within the same first week I was affected, so I assumed they were busy because they never replied. YouTube gave me a generic response, saying it was up to the "copyright holder" to reject or approve my dispute. Since Kamex and Noteblock got rejected with minutes, it's safe to assume Create Music's appeal process is automated. Lastly, I messaged Create Music themselves via email, and they replied by saying that unless my remixes are "official", all money will be going to MDHR. I believed that for about a week, but after doing some more digging and looking at MDHR's video policy, I noticed a lot of flaws in this email.

On top of these 3 companies that I emailed, I got in touch with the composer of the Cuphead OST and one of the main sound designers. The composer, Kris Madigan, said that it was out of his jurisidiction when I mentioned Create Music, which most likely means he wasn't really sure about what was going on. The same goes for the sound designer I just messaged recently. They said they're looking into and hopefully will figure out something in about a week. They also mentioned that it could have to do with the presets and instruments I used in my remixes. However, what doesn't add up is Kamex, Noteblock, Musical Ghost, and I all use different instruments and styles. There's also the fact that they only did this to a few Cuphead remixes on October 24th and nothing else after that. I did hear reports of Let's Plays being copyrighted about a week before the 24th on Twitter, but MDHR responded to those which caused Create to give the YouTubers that were affected back their copyrights. It seems like no one is really sure who Create Music is or if they are even legitimate. They do not even have a secure website when you go to it. The only hint of hope they have is that the sound designer pointed out that it could be something to do with Microsoft, and not MDHR themselves, since Cuphead was released on both Steam and Xbox.

Another thing someone recently pointed out; according to internet posts and some more research, Create Music also was named under a company called "Merlin Label Engine", who were copyrighting original music for a while. This name was taken away from them when YouTube finally did something about it. On top of all this, my friend did some digging and found out on one of their websites under DMCA that they basically require you to go to court if you want to completely dispute them, something us smaller YouTubers would never do, either due to fear or lack of money. My theory is that they tackled a few rising Cuphead remixes, not enough so that everybody would know, but enough to screw over a few people for a quick buck.

This isn't even about the ad revenue. This is about companies stealing money from content creators with no verification and that this is a huge deal and YouTube needs to do something about it, because we can't. We literally cannot do anything, aside from re-uploading and hoping for the best. If MDHR was actually getting the money or if I got a confirmation from them saying that they are working with Create Music, I would happily be okay with them taking my revenue. The game means alot to me honestly, I've been following it for two years without spoiling much for myself. But it's a game I wanted always buy on Day 1.

Please share these remixes with anybody you know that listened to or liked the original. Send it to the music extenders, send it to the animation memers, send it to everyone. Spread these videos like the plague and get the word out. It's going to take a LOT of time to get these back to where they used to be, and it may not even happen. My biggest fear is people thinking that I stole these remixes from myself. Thank you all so much for taking the time to read all of this. I'll be happy to answer any questions any of you may have. Love Retro.
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