Guinness World Records seems to have gotten a bit copyright cuckoo this weekend thanks in part to YouTube’s automated Content ID system.

A bunch of Super Mario Bros speedrunning videos were sent copyright claim notices based on a record holder’s speedrun that Guinness uploaded to their own channel.

They say the spree of claims was unintentional and should now be fixed.

About nine months ago, Guinness put together a video profile on Super Mario Bros speedrunner Kosmic including footage from his record-breaking warpless run.

Now, Kosmic’s own video of the record and tons of other SMB speedrunners have had copyright claims made on their similar videos.

Guinness have now released those claims saying “sorry for causing concern, we know how distressing it can be to get these notifications,” signed by Dan.

This appears to have been an error with automatic claims from our channel's Content ID system.

Should now be fixed, claims released.

This all came to a head after Kosmic says he got 40 copyright claims emailed to him simultaneously.

As Jobst points out in his own video, speedrunning is such a methodical art that, by nature, a lot of speedrun footage looks very, very similar.

Apparently YouTube’s Content ID system managed to mistake a bunch of other SMB speedruns for Kosmic’s and sent them copyright notices too?

YouTube’s breakdown on how their Content ID works suggests that some intent is required to act on a copyright match made by its system

“Please be sure to use the Copyright Match Tool responsibly,” they say

Funnily enough, even Jobst’s video on the subject initially got slapped with a copyright claim

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