Soleron on 14 October 2012
Unlike music and movies, watching on Youtube is not consuming the content. Even showing a playthrough of the game isn't devaluing the game, it's promotional. The Youtubers adding commentary own that commentary and should be able to be paid for it, with the game image as fair use. Fair use CAN apply to commercial content. The law needs rewritten to protect those who make new art using game footage - be that Let's Play, machinma, commentary of professonal competitive video games, or anything else that substantially transforms the original work.
