YouTuber Tom “Syndicate” Cassell says a new rights holder has issued copyright claims against nearly 3,000 videos on his “Life of Tom” YouTube channel after acquiring the music he used as his outro, as reported by Dexerto.

Cassell disclosed the situation on X. “The outro music I have the rights for has been bought out by someone else and has decided to go copyright striking all my videos as it’s used on the outro of every video from the last 8 years,” he wrote. “I have almost 3,000 videos with this song on.” He did not identify the song or the acquiring party, and his Life of Tom channel has more than 2.6 million subscribers.

YouTube’s content management system identifies the track as “Cloud 9 (From Cloud 9/Music from the TV Movie).” Claimants listed include Walt Disney Music Company (Publishing), UMPG Publishing, and several affiliated rights entities. The claims have rendered affected videos ineligible for monetization and restricted the display of tagged products in Shorts or on videos carrying active copyright claims.

The episode reflects a documented pattern in music rights enforcement. A June 2026 survey of 500 organizations in the United Kingdom and the United States, conducted by Sapio Research on behalf of Epidemic Sound, found that 56% have experienced copyright or takedown issues in the past 24 months, and that major rights holders are increasingly deploying AI-powered tools to identify alleged infringement at scale.

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