2013-05-18, 05:14 PM
Scaeva Wrote:Sometimes the making money of videos is required to maintain the quality, especially if you use expensive equipment or recording software. If someone recently purchased something really expensive, like a high end capture card to record Wii U games (like the upcoming Pikmin 3 and Super Luigi U), they were probably expecting to make their money back at the very least. Which they're not going to now.
That's a risk with stuff like this, whether anyone realized it or not. It's within the ToS that for videos to be monetized, they need permission from the copyright holder. Did they ask Nintendo if it's okay for them to make money using their content? Or did they assume that Nintendo would just keep going with implied consent? That's the thing - there's zero job security with stuff like this. It sucks if someone is a loss because of this, but if they are running their videos as a business then they should be thinking of them like a business. A company can decide on a whim that you no longer have permission to use their game for your videos. It's completely within YouTube's rules and copyright policy to do so. If an LPer needs to make videos to make money, there are companies that declare publicly that footage of their game can be monetized. Blizzard has said you can use their footage and Mojang is fine with Minecraft. If someone's whole schtick is Nintendo stuff, they can always Rifftrax it. Put the footage as a different video on youtube that Nintendo can run ads on if they want, and then make your own video that is completely your own content that you can run ads on however you want.
Whether or not they should? Something I don't want to delve into because it's a murky area.