[Genshin Impact] Prevent false copyright claims from cover artists on streaming platforms

**EDIT 2: Genshin Impact's customer support had replied and said that I should simply make an Appeal. :(** So pretty much they (as of now) won't be able to do anything that would prevent future instances of false flags / claims from Vydia and Kim Bo. **EDIT: if you have commented on any of Kim Bo's videos on youtube, addressing this issue, let me know if the comments were deleted. I've got word from some folks that Kim Bo may be deleting all comments about this incorrect claim issue. If you have proof that the comments were deleted (like screenshots, before / after commenting) let me know in the comments below!** (update from post from 2 years ago): *"For livestreamers, it's expected to get copyright / content ID claims on your streams / videos from someone who's covering music of the game. This Kim Bo dude had copyrighted covers of some Genshin OST and you'll get flagged by youtube even if your vids / livestreams use actual in-game music. -\_-"* [https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin\_Impact/comments/1eq7elr/for\_livestreamers\_its\_expected\_to\_get\_copyright/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact/comments/1eq7elr/for_livestreamers_its_expected_to_get_copyright/) 4 days ago Vydia again flagged a livestream of mine.. again so as usual, I filed a dispute: https://preview.redd.it/8a4yeuwea1qg1.png?width=1107&format=png&auto=webp&s=d79cfd7e90a429b74edfe3b822e97bd77e678a72 The claim in question: [https://www.youtube.com/live/3szUKIQPrfM?si=Rb\_aHNVd9Zoh2-ZJ&t=29438](https://www.youtube.com/live/3szUKIQPrfM?si=Rb_aHNVd9Zoh2-ZJ&t=29438) / 8:10:39 - 8:11:33 of the following livestream - [https://www.youtube.com/live/3szUKIQPrfM](https://www.youtube.com/live/3szUKIQPrfM) https://preview.redd.it/mgu0xxnvc1qg1.png?width=944&format=png&auto=webp&s=dea399a6d4cd086900c68b444953021f16e28464 Oh, since 2 years ago, how many times did my videos get flagged by Kim Bo and Vydia? 10 times: https://preview.redd.it/3a7imcihb1qg1.png?width=1593&format=png&auto=webp&s=220ae6e9802e97fee7113b5ba767be581c76e193 The most common being "Pure Sky" and "A New Day With Hope" example from 2024: https://preview.redd.it/k6yl0wa0d1qg1.png?width=1425&format=png&auto=webp&s=21432f58171f7e9370326747a748d6919ace43e4 example from 2025: https://preview.redd.it/dl1gl3o6d1qg1.png?width=1430&format=png&auto=webp&s=f8f43db81ca636a9d1540b429b43a54e6d4b52d7 **Never did I get any content ID claims from the actual composer himself, Yu-Peng.** For reference: Yu-Peng's "Pure Sky": [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHNvq6mBNg4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHNvq6mBNg4) Kim Bo's cover of "Pure Sky": [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0uffVuqb6c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0uffVuqb6c) Yu-Peng's "A New Day with Hope": [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw4JFxkS5MM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw4JFxkS5MM) Kim Bo's cover of "A New Day with Hope": [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMAqhxJDQ9E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMAqhxJDQ9E) **I would always file a dispute.** By which I have the following to copy paste since.. you know.. getting a lot of the same thing is getting annoying to type manually. *"The music being flagged as copyrighted is actual music from the game of Genshin Impact. If anything, this should be under the music department of Hoyoverse / mihoyo. Hoyoverse / Mihoyo has not set any copyright content ID claims on any livestream gameplay of their games to my knowledge. Pretty much an incorrect claim. Also this is my <X>/nd/rd/th time getting this false flag from Kim Bo / Vydia. Would really appreciate it if they stop sending out these content ID flags / copyright flags on Genshin Impact livestreamers. Thanks."* The 2024 and 2025 examples above, I would get the false flag removed / released after a week or so. The 2024 example above got cleared 8 days later after I filed a dispute: https://preview.redd.it/75zxexgie1qg1.png?width=1415&format=png&auto=webp&s=893ea0bf5d64ca1c154341c1387b467d77ac1e7b The 2025 example above, got cleared in under 12 hours upon filing a dispute: https://preview.redd.it/o3lof8sqe1qg1.png?width=1423&format=png&auto=webp&s=2be775ac100fc24edd5b2e4cf0dde032f8b2e74c So... So... lol **What about the most recent one that I got 4 days ago?** https://preview.redd.it/pouvoogwe1qg1.png?width=1421&format=png&auto=webp&s=423e007f70a634340bb6c4becfcb24a2ac587e7b **"Vydia has decided that their copyright claim is still valid."** lol So, what are my next steps? or.. **if you happen to be a Genshin Impact streamer on youtube, what are your next steps?** https://preview.redd.it/8hdr0tvvf1qg1.png?width=943&format=png&auto=webp&s=cb06f19695177768a4f6a631a8ba5808f07c35e7 Seems easy enough, right? But the usual main concern is that, from my experience, **if it's a livestream, all your livestream chat will be gone. :(** And you may not want that.. Is there any other choice? https://preview.redd.it/2syctl6of1qg1.png?width=939&format=png&auto=webp&s=461da6d8a77175c6b8a1e5459c4096960b8b6649 Yes.. **You can Appeal. What's the catch?** https://preview.redd.it/mnkd8ngsf1qg1.png?width=952&format=png&auto=webp&s=8e49064da3f30783288e4d4ec882ea3ab6dcf7e0 ***"Rejected appeal can result in a copyright strike."*** Man.. I'm just a small streamer and game clips uploader or whatever.. And this.. "can result in a copyright strike" is not good.. :( . **Context of Content ID flagging and the like:** Music distribution platforms - from CDBaby to Distrokid to TuneCore, etc. Vydia is an example of music distribution platform. More complex to explain a lot much but the gist of it is.. In a music distribution platform..: 1: You upload your music 2: You get a copyright / license to your music 3: You have it distributed to music streaming platforms 4: For a fee here and there (one time fee for a song or an album, for example) Once you have your music distributed in youtube, Youtube's algorithm and content ID flagging happens. Depending on the artist, music label, music distribution platform you are on, the SETTINGS YOU DID WHEN YOU BEFORE DISTRIBUTING YOUR MUSIC (in relation to covers licenses or whatchamacallit.. like, you need a certain license in order to properly distribute a song cover so that stuff won't just mistakenly flag that you own the original or something like that), etc.. Youtube has their content ID flagging, automated. In this case, unfortunately, the affected music is rough.. piano music so close to the original. **Some cover artists care that they have the false flagging resolved.** **While others generally or initially don't care** \- for example TL;DR - The French rapper who "stole" Genshin music - [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vyihbHGlESw](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vyihbHGlESw) Additional contexts: [https://reddit.com/r/Genshin\_Impact/comments/1lfwqrh/youtuber\_just\_stole\_hoyo\_music\_and\_claimed/](https://reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact/comments/1lfwqrh/youtuber_just_stole_hoyo_music_and_claimed/) and my take and updates on it: [https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin\_Impact/comments/1lg9t16/updateish\_youtube\_studio\_view\_on\_youtuber\_just/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact/comments/1lg9t16/updateish_youtube_studio_view_on_youtuber_just/) [https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin\_Impact/comments/1lgjn4r/final\_update\_on\_that\_french\_artist\_who\_stole/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact/comments/1lgjn4r/final_update_on_that_french_artist_who_stole/) . . **ANYWAY....** **WHAT CAN WE DO HERE?** **1: Take the big L and just remove the song from the video / livestream :(** **.** **2: Message Genshin Support and hope for the best?** I have tried this and it was a good enough effort. It's been 2 years and the fact that this is still happening means, it hasn't been fully dealt with.. (from a 2024 inquiry) https://preview.redd.it/otj2m83xg1qg1.png?width=1532&format=png&auto=webp&s=e93429b3ea72edb18672f965f46d3fd8cc691bad https://preview.redd.it/v22t7h8zg1qg1.png?width=1572&format=png&auto=webp&s=03b76a4073c55247fd142d8624dd7faf879d9be9 https://preview.redd.it/mjb068q0h1qg1.png?width=1573&format=png&auto=webp&s=441e6228aeff338787657189a68dd21f6d515c20 . **3: Contact vydia?** [https://vydiasupport.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new](https://vydiasupport.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new) ? Well.. If their supposed last post from their official Facebook is to go by.. (I go incognito since I don't have an FB account, but if this is their most latest post there.. yikes) https://preview.redd.it/mliwavobh1qg1.png?width=1196&format=png&auto=webp&s=de4e088440c897c14fb30b94a167853f33257d5a Basically.. Facebook last post seems 2023: [https://www.facebook.com/VydiaOfficial](https://www.facebook.com/VydiaOfficial) Youtube last vid is on 2021: [https://www.youtube.com/@Vydiaofficial/videos](https://www.youtube.com/@Vydiaofficial/videos) Linkedin .. err: [https://www.linkedin.com/company/vydia-inc-](https://www.linkedin.com/company/vydia-inc-) Twitter last post is on 2023: [https://x.com/vydiaofficial](https://x.com/vydiaofficial) Instagram last post is.. Feb 6, 2026: [https://www.instagram.com/vydiaofficial/](https://www.instagram.com/vydiaofficial/) Are they worth contacting? lol.. Apparently not, they seemed to have ignored past comments about same false flags / content ID claims over the years, so what makes them notice it now? I don't even think they'd bombing their social media would get their attention. . **4: Contact Kim Bo, the artist himself?** Well.. https://preview.redd.it/11jasq1oj1qg1.png?width=691&format=png&auto=webp&s=92a01e90ec4c31c3459289b2a0543206778dc09c Well.. uh, I would just bet he would also ignore people who would raise the matter to him. Maybe not? Instagram seems to be the most active he's been.. but last post was 5 weeks ago or so.. [https://www.instagram.com/kimbocrash/](https://www.instagram.com/kimbocrash/) Their other socials [https://linktr.ee/kimbocrash](https://linktr.ee/kimbocrash) Their youtube: [https://www.youtube.com/@KimBoPiano/videos](https://www.youtube.com/@KimBoPiano/videos) None of his videos have comments off.. . **5: Simply avoiding all areas in Genshin Impact that would play the following OSTs under this playlist:** [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy\_lXEWqCnHsr0WaPpdphpmdEdCtifp8rAuU](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lXEWqCnHsr0WaPpdphpmdEdCtifp8rAuU) Very basically.. **if you're a youtube livestreamer, STAY AWAY FROM MONDSTADT OR MUTE GAME AUDIO IF YOU'RE ON MONDSTADT lol** Unfortunately, all of the comment sections of their Genshin covers are off.. Unlike Yu-Peng's.. which again leads me to . **6: Raise awareness to the actual composer himself, Yu-peng through commenting on his releases affected by false copyright / content ID claims.** The two most common Genshin tracks on my end that will get the false content ID / copyright flag from Kim Bo and Vydia are Pure Sky: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHNvq6mBNg4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHNvq6mBNg4) and A New Day with Hope: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw4JFxkS5MM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw4JFxkS5MM) and both of those videos, have their comment sections open, fortunately. . **7: Total removal of all Genshin Impact covers of Kim Bo from youtube** [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy\_lXEWqCnHsr0WaPpdphpmdEdCtifp8rAuU](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lXEWqCnHsr0WaPpdphpmdEdCtifp8rAuU) We "did it" on removing the offending French rapper's track from last year (although the visualizer video is up.. But that video doesn't have a "content ID" of its own.. so it ended up having a "pass") . . . I just don't want some false flag stuff on my Genshin content, man.. Especially how I'm streaming / uploading videos from the game itself.. -\_- So like.. if you're reading this and **you happen to be a musician who has or plans on covering music from Hoyoverse and uploading it as well as trying to have a covers license to your covers so you can earn money from folks listening to your music..** 1: Hopefully, you get around the music distribution platform properly .. **(STAY AWAY FROM VYDIA)** 2: **It's ok to make covers of Hoyoverse OSTs.. it's just that what Kim Bo ended up being on.. sucks lol**. Why? Here's an example.. Sharing a shoutout to Midnight City Music just sharing a snippet of my email/s about.. yes.. a false flag / content ID claim from youtube, in this case from the music distribution platform his Genshin covers were on which was EpicElite. https://preview.redd.it/xk1x0hv1n1qg1.png?width=1576&format=png&auto=webp&s=d49bad1212c69c90785594216d1670343c5e8e21 Very basically, not only were they very understanding, EpicElite was too as well. They managed to remove the false flag / content ID claim on my affected Genshin videos. **They are reachable.** . . For my fellow youtube livestreamers / game clippers / content creators and the like.. Errrr.. I don't know.. It's rough out there.. **Vydia has to go.. >\_>** **Let's just keep up the good fight. ❤** **Happy streaming and Happy Genshin Impact, everyone.** If you have any questions about youtube studio or related matters to this post, or uploading videos or livestreaming Hoyoverse content, feel free to ask away. I'll answer the best I can based on experience. Thanks! ❤