Nintendo Resuming Let's Play Takedowns

[Subtle Demise]

Based Nintendo, killing off the Let's Play cancer and preventing others from monetizing copyrighted material.

It's not copyrighted

 

[Dork]

It's not copyrighted

>video games
>not copyrighted

Huh?

 

[the_randomizer]

It's not copyrighted

AFAIK it falls under fair use. It's just Nintendo being retarded is all. I'll avoid uploading videos from their games, just go with second or third parties. If anything, let's play videos helps me know if I want to get a certain game or not.

>video games
>not copyrighted


Huh?

Care to explain how or why other companies like Sony, Square Enix or Konami allow people to post videos? Then there's Microsoft and the Xbox One's ability to record video...hmmm....

 

[Dork]

Care to explain how or why other companies like Sega, Square Enix or Konami allow people to post videos?

I can't explain, because I don't know what goes down at Sega HQ. I'm unsure of why Nintendo would want non-monetized videos down, but they have every right to take down others who are trying to monetize their content. Let's Players who monetize their videos have no legal ground to stand on, while Nintendo does.

 

[the_randomizer]

I can't explain, because I don't know what goes down at Sega HQ. I'm unsure of why Nintendo would want non-monetized videos down, but they have every right to take down others who are trying to monetize their content. Let's Players who monetize their videos have no legal ground to stand on, while Nintendo does.

And for those who don't monetize? My videos never do.

For videos from Ubisoft, Capcom, etc http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertc...e-rally-behind-copyright-afflicted-youtubers/
Even Valve allows users to monetize videos if they so choose http://www.computerandvideogames.com/442476/valve-responds-to-youtube-copyright-cull/

It's simply Nintendo being assholes.

 

[Dork]

And for those who don't monetize? My videos never do.

Like I said, I don't know. I unfortunately don't work at Nintendo.

 

[the_randomizer]

Like I said, I don't know. I unfortunately don't work at Nintendo.

Luckily, other companies are allowing people to do it, Nintendo's being stingy. I guess I could always write an email, not it'd do any good.

 

[calmwaters]

>video games
>not copyrighted

Huh?

Have you ever seen a Copyright symbol on a game? As people should be aware of, games are no different than movies; except, games have real interaction. And there, I've solved the whole "copyright" debacle.

 

[trumpet-205]

Games is just another form of intellectual property. And yes, Nintendo doesn't like people uploading LP footage, whether you use it for monetizing purpose or not.

Both side share equal responsibility, YouTube for cave in too easily and Nintendo for making a big deal out of it.

 

[ForteGospel]

how lets play videos dont spoil the game?

even worse if i watch a full lets play video chances are i wont even bother to play the game as i already know everything that will happen...

heck before youtube i would read walktroughs for games i didnt owned instead of getting them.

reviews are great, commentary videos with rules of old games are great (nuzlockes for example).

one of my roommates is just watching all the scenes from kingdom hearts games instead of playing them (when we actually have all of them)

 

[Zerousen]

Once again, the companies are not the culprit, it's YouTube's content ID system




The system is convoluted and broken/FUBAR. We need to tell Google how much we hate it.

We should start a petition.

Spoiler

 

[Qtis]

Using copyrighted content to make your own content is considered fair use regardless of copyright. Otherwise everyone making review (games, movies, music, news papers, tech, etc) would not be able to do their work. Lets Plays are in many ways included in this section as they're reviews and/or new content. If it was just the video feeds, then by all mean do take them down. If someone has added their commentary on, say, how a game mechanics works while reviewing the game with footage going on in the background and it gets taken down, it's considered censorship.

 

[Dork]

Have you ever seen a Copyright symbol on a game?

Yes I have.

 

[FAST6191]

Using copyrighted content to make your own content is considered fair use regardless of copyright. Otherwise everyone making review (games, movies, music, news papers, tech, etc) would not be able to do their work. Lets Plays are in many ways included in this section as they're reviews and/or new content. If it was just the video feeds, then by all mean do take them down. If someone has added their commentary on, say, how a game mechanics works while reviewing the game with footage going on in the background and it gets taken down, it's considered censorship.

That is not quite the case and using a strict reading of that I could do things very clearly against copyright's letters, spirit and otherwise (a remix is not necessarily copyright free and sampling was part of a fairly important piece of US copyright case law). It can vary somewhat across the world (parody is not so much an option in the UK) but generally there are exemptions from copyright. Specifically though reviews/criticism are specifically among the things exempted, education is another and satire is usually the last of the big three exemptions, where it goes from there gets tricky. However the content exempt from review has to be the content being reviewed, this is why some of the audio samples used perhaps in a skit in a review and maybe the audio samples as captured from in game footage can get you pinged.

The idea of a let's play is a reasonably new one in copyright world, personally I am not sold on the idea of Let's play being a further exemption and taken as current readings of the law the idea of a let's play could be seen to violate copyright. Now your let's play could double as a review, some satire, some education or some combination of the lot, not every a let's play is that though.

 

[ForteGospel]

on topic: www.kotaku.com/youtubes-copyright-crackdown-simple-answers-to-compli-1485999937

but as long as its "nintendo's fault", this is gbatemp...

 

[osirisjem]

on topic: www.kotaku.com/youtubes-copyright-crackdown-simple-answers-to-compli-1485999937
but as long as its "nintendo's fault", this is gbatemp...

Nintendo may get unfairly blamed on this crackdown.
But they reap what they sow.

Don't you remember this summer when they started cracking down on YouTubers making Nintendo gaming videos ?

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/17/lets-play-youtube-crackdown

What kind of fool would crack down on it's biggest fans (The YouTube Nintendo gamers).

Nintendo is increasingly making bad decisions.
- the Wii U gamepad (fail)
- the Wii U itself (fail)
- cracking down on nintendo gamers (fail).
- no Mario Kart 8 for Christmas 2013 (fail).

They sure are lucky the 3DS is still popular.
After that subsides, they might just go belly up.

 

[Hells Malice]

on topic: www.kotaku.com/youtubes-copyright-crackdown-simple-answers-to-compli-1485999937

but as long as its "nintendo's fault", this is gbatemp...

Yes and the difference between Nintendo and pretty much literally everyone else, is that when people counter these claims, they're cleared up immediately. But with Nintendo, they fight back again and resume the claim.
It's pretty much only Nintendo doing that.
Sure they didn't MEAN to throw the punch, but unlike everyone else, they're following through with it anyway.

 

[the_randomizer]

Yes and the difference between Nintendo and pretty much literally everyone else, is that when people counter these claims, they're cleared up immediately. But with Nintendo, they fight back again and resume the claim.
It's pretty much only Nintendo doing that.
Sure they didn't MEAN to throw the punch, but unlike everyone else, they're following through with it anyway.

Like I posted earlier in the thread, links to news proving that Blizzard, Ubisoft, Valve and other third parties will actually help keep your video and even allow you to monetize said videos without hassle, and yet, Nintendo is the only company who's being a stingy douche about YouTube video uploads. I like their consoles and their games, but they're acting like the grumpy decrepit man who lives at the end of the street that everyone never visits.

on topic: www.kotaku.com/youtubes-copyright-crackdown-simple-answers-to-compli-1485999937


but as long as its "nintendo's fault", this is gbatemp...

But it is Nintendo's fault, other companies are backing up users and helping remove content ID matches, Nintendo does not help users.

 

[ForteGospel]

Like I posted earlier in the thread, links to news proving that Blizzard, Ubisoft, Valve and other third parties will actually help keep your video and even allow you to monetize said videos without hassle, and yet, Nintendo is the only company who's being a stingy douche about YouTube video uploads. I like their consoles and their games, but they're acting like the grumpy decrepit man who lives at the end of the street that everyone never visits.



But it is Nintendo's fault, other companies are backing up users and helping remove content ID matches, Nintendo does not help users.

so we are blaming nintendo for youtube's fuck up because other companies are backing up users... got it...

 

[Joe88]

once again, it is nintendo fault, they are the one telling youtube/google to enforce it