Aeolus451 on 01 February 2015
| ZyroXZ2 said: I'm seeing the continued misunderstanding of how this whole thing works... Again, NO ONE is stopping the videos from being posted. You can post ALL the gameplay videos of Nintendo games you want. However, IF YouTube's bot matches it successfully to copyright protected content, a content claim is placed that allows ad revenue from the video to go to the entity that owns the rights to the content. No one is "restricting" anything from being posted. What Nintendo has done is decide to SHARE part of this revenue with the person who posted the video instead of taking it all IF and WHEN YouTube matches it WITHOUT that person needing to go through professional means to OBTAIN this license like many, MANY other publishers require. I'm getting a little irritated by how poorly people understand the system in place. YouTubers who know what they're doing don't simply post gameplay videos knowing this, because this content copyright is exercised by many, MANY more publishers than Nintendo. I, too, barely post gameplay videos because I know it's violating the copyright. Instead, I dance around the Fair Use act by creating game reviews, which fall under educational material as my way of covering games. The person who mentioned commentators at sports games is mixing up a live broadcast with recorded ("copy") material. Anyone who's into sports might know that if you post a recording of a live broadcast game, it can be content matched to the network that aired it originally, and a content claim will be posted on it directing ad revenue to said network. This is because the network has been licensed and sanctioned to broadcast the footage. And to someone who mentioned driving cars: you can't actually bare the logo of the vehicle legally and make money off of it. This is why if you look at many advertisements that use cars in pictures on the box or in commercials, the logos of the vehicles are removed. Licensing has to be obtained for manufacturer vehicle usage as well. So you are, unfortunately, still not understanding the issue at hand. People need to stop trying so hard to make videogames some sort of exception to copyright laws, because they are NOT an exception. For the record, I've begun doing some testing with Nintendo's Creators Program to see how it verifies your registered videos (aside from the text I posted in the OT) just to see how "aggressive" YouTube is being. Though there may be nothing there out of the ordinary, which is what I've gathered so far. |
Neither Sony or Microsoft take any cut out of ad revenue from youtubers but Nintendo does "but" it shares some of the ad revenue of youtube vids with the creators. There's no misunderstanding of what nintendo is doing. I wonder what a hole in a foot looks like from a POV prospective. I guess I'll ask Satoru Iwata on twitter to send me a pic of his foot.
Alot of nintendo fans and reviewers speak of how great nintendo's games are but it's taking away a lot of the incentive for people to make vids on those games. If nintendo's games are that good then some free advertising would go a long way in showing those games to people which it really needs over the ad revenue of youtubers.
