| Chazore said: I love how we've gone from Streaming to being a good thing, becoming more commonplace, to it apparently being a bad thing. You don't have to watch the streams, inf act those of you who don't want to see said streams and siding with Atlas should actually be playing the game, not paying full attention to those who wish to stream their gameplay. Games are not movies, don't even try tying them to another form of media and calling them exactly the same with another form's rules. |
I love how games go from being called movies to walking simulators back to games back to trying to be movies again.
Fair use still has to be fleshed out for video games, yet it most likely will not include streaming a game from start to finish. I assume the Streams they want to shut down are the ones making money from them?
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/138161?hl=en
What can I monetize?
Video game content may be monetized depending on the commercial use rights granted to you by licenses of video game publishers. Some video game publishers allow you to use all video game content for commercial use and state that in their license agreements. Likewise, videos showing software user interface may be monetized only if you have a contract with the publisher or you have paid a licensing fee.
Yet it's still a grey area with a rather huge loophole
Video game content may be monetized [without consent] if the associated step-by-step commentary is strictly tied to the live action being shown and provides instructional or educational value.
It's a new area in copyright law and so far companies have condoned let's play videos as a free form of advertisement. That doesn't mean it isn't in their right to put a stop to it. Yet by condoning it for so long they'll now have a much harder time trying to enforce copyright.
