What's on your mind?
02-21-2016, 09:13 PM
I think it's about time for a rant. 
Fair Use protects reviewers from copyright, as long as they give proper credit. I don't know a single reviewer who hasn't said proper credits, so the fact they can get a strike for not even using any FOOTAGE of the game itself is ridiculous and broken. Seriously, you can't even talk about some Nintendo games, or they take your video down. HOW CAN THEY TAKE A VIDEO DOWN IF YOU'RE JUST TALKING ABOUT IT?!
And companies don't own your footage of a game, nor are you stealing from them if you play a game with their music in it. Yet videos are BANNED for having a song from a game they're doing a Let's Play of. You're doing the work for the gameplay, not them, so why are they getting paid for what YOU do? Not to mention, a lot of companies said they never wanted Youtube to do that anyway, because they WANT people to play their games for free publicity. Nintendo hasn't gotten there yet, and want 60% of a Youtuber's profit on any Nintendo videos.
FOR WHAT?! THEY DIDN'T MAKE THE VIDEO! AND I SURE AS HECK HAVE THE RIGHTS TO TALK ABOUT THE THING!
And public domain songs from 200+ years ago are copyrighted via Youtube's broken system as well! PEOPLES' VIDEOS ARE TAKEN DOWN FOR PUBLIC DOMAIN SONGS OF OLD! NOBODY OWNS THEM!
So yeah, Youtube's system is broken, and companies have no rights to taken down peoples' original content, especially reviewers, who SHOULD be protected via Fair Use. But nope. Youtube doesn't agree.
And if I get a video taken down because I played someone's game, that's just idiocy. And they have no rights to the content inside, since I'm not selling the game itself. I'm playing it.
People use reviewers to decide if they want a game or not. If you don't even let somebody review it in the first place... well, that explains Nintendo's poor sales in the past, and the bad publicity with copyright is what's likely keeping their system from being CLOSE to PS4/XBOX1 sales. GROW UP, NINTENDO. PEOPLE JUST WANNA PLAY YOSHI'S ISLAND AND TALK ABOUT IT, JEEZ! IS IT SO BAD FOR PEOPLE TO SAY IF THEY LIKE OR DISLIKE YOUR GAME, OR EVEN PLAY IT FOR FUN?!
Anyway, enough of my ranting.
I'm glad Square has bee pretty cool with copyright, and don't take videos down, unless it's a "Secret ending" to one of their new games. I'll definitely be putting their videos on Youtube much more in the future
Bandai Namco has "Different" rules, where you can't monetize a video if you use their footage/music, and they get all monetization if you do monetize. That's... kinda fine, because it's acknowledging that if you're not making any money, they don't make any money from it either. However, it's still taking money from people who make a living via gaming.
I don't monetize yet, so they and I are on good terms
Fair Use protects reviewers from copyright, as long as they give proper credit. I don't know a single reviewer who hasn't said proper credits, so the fact they can get a strike for not even using any FOOTAGE of the game itself is ridiculous and broken. Seriously, you can't even talk about some Nintendo games, or they take your video down. HOW CAN THEY TAKE A VIDEO DOWN IF YOU'RE JUST TALKING ABOUT IT?!
And companies don't own your footage of a game, nor are you stealing from them if you play a game with their music in it. Yet videos are BANNED for having a song from a game they're doing a Let's Play of. You're doing the work for the gameplay, not them, so why are they getting paid for what YOU do? Not to mention, a lot of companies said they never wanted Youtube to do that anyway, because they WANT people to play their games for free publicity. Nintendo hasn't gotten there yet, and want 60% of a Youtuber's profit on any Nintendo videos.
FOR WHAT?! THEY DIDN'T MAKE THE VIDEO! AND I SURE AS HECK HAVE THE RIGHTS TO TALK ABOUT THE THING!
And public domain songs from 200+ years ago are copyrighted via Youtube's broken system as well! PEOPLES' VIDEOS ARE TAKEN DOWN FOR PUBLIC DOMAIN SONGS OF OLD! NOBODY OWNS THEM!
So yeah, Youtube's system is broken, and companies have no rights to taken down peoples' original content, especially reviewers, who SHOULD be protected via Fair Use. But nope. Youtube doesn't agree.
And if I get a video taken down because I played someone's game, that's just idiocy. And they have no rights to the content inside, since I'm not selling the game itself. I'm playing it.
People use reviewers to decide if they want a game or not. If you don't even let somebody review it in the first place... well, that explains Nintendo's poor sales in the past, and the bad publicity with copyright is what's likely keeping their system from being CLOSE to PS4/XBOX1 sales. GROW UP, NINTENDO. PEOPLE JUST WANNA PLAY YOSHI'S ISLAND AND TALK ABOUT IT, JEEZ! IS IT SO BAD FOR PEOPLE TO SAY IF THEY LIKE OR DISLIKE YOUR GAME, OR EVEN PLAY IT FOR FUN?!
Anyway, enough of my ranting.
I'm glad Square has bee pretty cool with copyright, and don't take videos down, unless it's a "Secret ending" to one of their new games. I'll definitely be putting their videos on Youtube much more in the future
Bandai Namco has "Different" rules, where you can't monetize a video if you use their footage/music, and they get all monetization if you do monetize. That's... kinda fine, because it's acknowledging that if you're not making any money, they don't make any money from it either. However, it's still taking money from people who make a living via gaming.
I don't monetize yet, so they and I are on good terms
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