Epic Games issues copyright strike on its own Fortnite Battle Pass video

Epic Games appears to have issued a Copyright Strike on one of its own YouTube videos. Fortnite’s Reddit community has noticed that attempts to view the game’s latest Battle Pass - which offers various cosmetics and in-game currency - on YouTube are being blocked by an unlikely source. Searching for the Season 6 Battle Pass on YouTube gets you plenty of results, of course, but none of them come from the game’s official account. According to a Reddit post from last night, that’s because Epic has managed to copyright strike itself. According to YouTube’s support, receiving a copyright strike “means that you video has been taken down from YouTube because a copyright owner has sent us a complete and valid legal request asking us to do so.” That Reddit post shows a screenshot suggesting that Epic’s video - ‘Fortnite Season 6 Battle Pass’ - “is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Epic Games, Inc.” That would suggest that somewhere down the line, Epic filed a legal request to YouTube asking the platform to take down their own video.

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