2013-05-17, 08:04 PM
Kabanaw Wrote:Well, now I understand where we disagree. In your interpretation, you are filming your software and that means it is yours and you can do what you want with it. The way I see it is you own a copy of their software, and the footage is your footage of their game. Everything you're showing is still their IP, and to use it for for-profit use is off-limits since you don't own that IP.
Well, not quite. There's a difference between the actual software and footage of a software. See, Youtube calculates the difference as well. It's not like you can put a video up on Youtube and tell it to monetize and it puts up ads instantly without outside confirmation. When you're partnered with Youtube/Adsense, Youtube's system scans your video(s) for any kind of audio or video that goes against their policies. They check for copyright infringement and all sorts of things. They can catch the slightest fart in the wind in your video and if it's to the tune of a copyrighted song, you're declined monetization for that video. However, they allow video game videos to be monetized. If video games were against their monetization policies, they wouldn't allow those to go through at all. They'd be blocked at the checking process.
Quote:I guess I find it kind of hard to sympathize with most super-huge LPers because, well, it seems like they don't put a ton of effort into their LPs. The majority that I've seen are people that slap their talking over them playing a game with jokes that appeal to the lowest common denominator to get the most viewers. I'm not saying that every LPer is like this, but so many I've seen do this. I feel that anybody who cares little enough about their content to abandon it / never start it because it doesn't turn a profit didn't care very much in the first place!
I can't disagree with you here, though I've never been one to watch Let's Plays myself.