Why are songs and movies copyrighted but you can upload a full playthrough of a video game on YouTube?
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A video game play through is free advertising for a paid product (unless you download it illegally).
Uploading a movie, podcast, music etc. is providing someone’s protected property to others for free. If you wrote a song, copyright, and publish it you get to choose who can use it and for how much. That’s how you make money. If Timmy comes along and records your song on his phone and then uploads it in a lyric video it with a tacky lime and white paisley background which then goes viral he’s getting money for your song.
TLDR: play throughs are free advertising and uploading movies, songs etc. is stealing because you’d other wise need to pay to “own”/enjoy them.
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