Youtube are in the firing line again for anyone who wants to make money from gaming videos on their service with the latest stupid move.
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In any sane world a developer putting up a notice stating "anyone can monetize videos of our games" would be enough to satisfy anyone, but nope not youtube any more.
So, basically game developers need to do a personalised message to every single person they wish to allow to monetize videos on their games. This is just pathetic and I am in utter shock at the sheer stupidity of this. I understand Youtube don't want to be held accountable for copyright issues, but this is just going too far now. Considering they just purchased Twitch how the hell are twitch subscriptions going to survive if eventually they can't stream games without direct permission first?
Why can't we all just get along? Oh that's right because companies are greedy and don't like the little guy using "their content" to help promote them giving them free marketing. That is what "let's play" videos are, just free marketing for the developer. This is certainly why some of the massive sites host their own videos that's for sure.
One developer has already come up with a fun solution. Which is fully open for others to use, good to see people come together for the greater good so quickly.
Source complaint. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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In any sane world a developer putting up a notice stating "anyone can monetize videos of our games" would be enough to satisfy anyone, but nope not youtube any more.
So, basically game developers need to do a personalised message to every single person they wish to allow to monetize videos on their games. This is just pathetic and I am in utter shock at the sheer stupidity of this. I understand Youtube don't want to be held accountable for copyright issues, but this is just going too far now. Considering they just purchased Twitch how the hell are twitch subscriptions going to survive if eventually they can't stream games without direct permission first?
Why can't we all just get along? Oh that's right because companies are greedy and don't like the little guy using "their content" to help promote them giving them free marketing. That is what "let's play" videos are, just free marketing for the developer. This is certainly why some of the massive sites host their own videos that's for sure.
One developer has already come up with a fun solution. Which is fully open for others to use, good to see people come together for the greater good so quickly.
Source complaint. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Actually, I think that was an example, and devs saying "anyone can monetize videos of our games" or "we have no problem with you[plural] monetizing videos of our game" should be OK.
You just need to find that blogpost they said it in .. =D
You just need to find that blogpost they said it in .. =D
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Quoting: pd12Actually, I think that was an example, and devs saying "anyone can monetize videos of our games" or "we have no problem with you[plural] monetizing videos of our game" should be OK.Apparently YouTube no longer likes these sorts of blanket statements on websites etc. and demand personal permissions. For example for me that would be completely unreasonable, because I have hundreds of videos of games from dozens of developers/game studios and I doubt I would be able to get permissions from all of them.
You just need to find that blogpost they said it in .. =D
Luckily the GOL Casts at least fall under fair-use and I am sure we can talk our way through those, but let's plays are on the grey zone between what is acceptable and what is not.
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