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Nuvendil on 19 June 2016
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Veknoid_Outcast said:
Peh said:

Everything I know:

When Nintendo announced his new Youtube policy for people monetizing on Let's Play video's on Nintendo content and the restrictions which come with it a lot of Youtuber's like PewDiePie and so on who do mostly Let's Play videos went against it. Angry Joe was one of them. Some time later when fans demanded of Joe doing videos about Nintendo games, they've contributed money for Joe to get a Wii U with some games.

Joe did 2 streams of him and his friends playing Mario Party 10 and Mario Kart 8 on twitch. He uploaded these videos on Youtube clearly knowing Nintendo's Youtube Policies and tried to monetize on this poorly made (No edited) videos. When Nintendo took all the money being made with these 2 videos, Joe took both videos down, because he can't make money with it. A few hours later his Final Nintendo Rant video went online and told Nintendo how greedy Nintendo is.

The Nintendo Youtube Policy is one thing, but Angry Joe dealt with it like a little, whiny, greedy, bitch himself.  

He thinks he is entitled to make money on content he doesn't own.

Thanks!

Two questions:

1) can YouTubers use any footage of Nintendo games without consulting Nintendo? Like a trailer or a brief 30-second spot?

2) can someone do a let's play in partnership with Nintendo? Like they split the proceeds?

Actually, no, what he just described is NOT how it went down at all.  Not even close.

First off, the content creators program was not announced and set up until AFTER Joe bought the Wii U and planned to do some streams and post highlights to YouTube.  It sjowed up at the end of January 2015, Joe did his streams and had his run in with them at the start of and middle of January 2015.

Second, Joe's fanbase never DEMANDED he do Nintendo content.  I should know, I've followed him for years.  In fact, a sizable chunk of his fanbase didn't care about or actively disliked the Nintendo.  

Third, while yes, he used donation mkney to get a Wii U, three things must be remembered:  one, it was one fan who donated it; two, that fan did not demand Wii U reviews; and three, he Lways uses the money from twitch streams and donations to buy new equipment.  Youtube revenue primarily goes to general cost of living and running the Angry Joe Show, he has said this numerous times.  And FYI, I was watching the stream where these donations were made, I know this first hand.

Third, Joe was completely not in the loop about Nintendo before his issues.  He hadn't owned a Wii, it had been ages since he had any Nintendo products and had never done any Nintendo coverage.  He conducted himself exactly in line with what essentially every other company allows for let's players and streamers.

Now, having corrected all that noise, yoir questions:

Nintendo is NOTORIOUS for claiming videos for petty reasons.  The Co-optional Podcast had a 30 second clip of the Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 trailer in their 3 hour show and Nintendo claimed the whole video and took all the revenue.  It is very tricky to do.  ProJared used to get around it by lowering the sound but had mulfiple claims last year.  He has reviewed no Nintendo published product since.

Your second question, only if it is a game Nintendo has on their list of permitted games and only if Nintendo gets 40% of the revenue, an absolutely absurd cut.  And before you ask, no, I have no idea how GameXplain gets by.  But essentially, unless you are a big enough entity to intimidate Nintendo or fight back, they will screw you.  And Joe and Jared and Jim and TotalBiscuit have every right to call them on it, it's a violation of fair use.  

Edit: oh, and joe has spoken very positively of the New 3DS and Wii U on social media.  And he got that 3DS after the run in with Nintendo.  Yeah, clearly he hates them.