| Jizz_Beard_thePirate said: Well, the thing with Joe's video is that, if you watch closely, the video he uploaded was 5 hours and 54 minutes long and what Nintendo did was that they "copyright claimed" the music in that video. Now, the thing is, they didn't take the video down but rather, they are monotizing the soundtracks in the game since its almost a 6 hour video filled with soundtracks from Nintendo's composers. So all the ad revenue would go to Nintendo and not Joe because he is using "licensed music" from Nintendo without Nintendo's permission but people can still view the video if he decides to activate it. A similar thing would happen if someone did it with say GTA V cause that game is filled with licensed musis. And Nintendo is very strict about their music cause it is their music and MK8 certainly has very good ones. (Not to say other games don't but you know what I mean) The easiest way to work around that of course is to use royalty free music which various sites like youtube and twitch provide for freeeee for LPs. If they do that, than Nintendo as well as other companies will not monotize it at all. |
By that logic every game has licensed music from the developer that made it. GTA is different however since it is TRUE licensed music, as in the developer did not make the music in the radio channels and only got permission to include it in the game. But even then I don't see any problems with people uploading and monetizing GTA videos.
Also, do Nintendo even sell their soundtracks separately? If not then once again I don't see what the issue is here. It's not like they're losing out on OST sales. I mean Destiny had one of the best soundtracks of all games last year to the point that they even sell the OST separately on itunes, but I don't see Bungie going out of their way to strike down videos with their music playing in the background of a level. It is part of the game's experience. Nintendo are just being needless archaic and harsh here when there's literally no reason to be.
