Quite recently, I have been enjoying the creation of Deltarune remixes, and I have been uploading them to YouTube. For example, here's [Another Day in Hometown in the New Super Mario Bros. World 7 soundfont](https://youtu.be/k0jC_uIfGdc). Undertale and Deltarune music are really amazing.
However, most people who have uploaded Undertale or Deltarune gameplay and remixes know |how annoying Materia is.| For those who don't know, Materia is the music publisher for all of Toby Fox's game music. They are supposed to handle the legal side for these soundtracks, but most of the time, they don't match Toby Fox's approach at all. |Toby actually encourages people to use his music,| but Materia is always ruining this, especially with their CEO Sebastian Wolf behaving like a manchild.
Quite a lot of times, people's videos get copyright-claimed on YouTube by Materia, and that includes my remixes. Ever since my channel began monetization, I have been caring about NOT sharing my revenue with any copyright claimer (because screw those greedy companies). With my infinite amount of free time, I often spend time looking into how to avoid getting these claims.
The Normal Way
The normal way to avoid the claims is to transform the music enough that it doesn't trigger the Content ID. My example of this is [Field of Dires and Docks](https://youtu.be/dZK-DXqKwmU), which remixes The Field of Hopes and Dreams with the soundfont of Dire Dire Docks from Super Mario 64. The way I fixed this remix is by sprinkling more elements of Dire Dire Docks into the remix. |The trick is to break up the melody enough that it doesn't trigger Content ID.|
The Lazy Way
I have planned 2 videos (3 actually) for this Wednesday, which I'm not gonna disclose yet, but I can tell you that they both triggered Content ID. This time around, I can't really mix in another song into them as it wouldn't make sense. And then I had an idea.
I noticed the "Cloudy Day in Hometown" remix didn't trigger any copyright claims, but the idea of it was pretty similar to "Field of Dires and Docks". So, what was different? Using the powers of observation and pattern recognition, I theorized it to be because of the slower speed of "Cloudy Day in Hometown". Pattern recognition tells me that there's something to do with the speed...
I proceed to speed up the music by 10%. Guess what? It didn't trigger a copyright claim! But if I speed up only by 5%, it does trigger. So yeah, this is the laziest way you can do it.