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.
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.
Wasn’t Nintendo notorious for striking videos?
Wasn’t Nintendo notorious for striking videos?
Wasn’t Nintendo notorious for striking videos?
Edited because I misread the question..
On youtube premium, you can. Its a paid subscription service.
This includes the downloads, apparently.
As far as I know, YouTube video plays, views, and downloads all get a certain royalty.
Therefore I dont think its copyright infringement, at least if you are a subscriber.
However, it might be. I mean, Idk for sure, but it may also just be a practical way to have a digital copy of music you have previously purchased on tape or cd.
In that case, its definitely not copyright infringement, since you paid for the music already.
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Edit:
Ok youre asking about video gane playthrough… well, really it is copyright infringement, but in this case, its not enforced, because its just good publicity.
Now, if someone made a very similar game, thats a different story.
Edited because I misread the question..
On youtube premium, you can. Its a paid subscription service.
This includes the downloads, apparently.
As far as I know, YouTube video plays, views, and downloads all get a certain royalty.
Therefore I dont think its copyright infringement, at least if you are a subscriber.
However, it might be. I mean, Idk for sure, but it may also just be a practical way to have a digital copy of music you have previously purchased on tape or cd.
In that case, its definitely not copyright infringement, since you paid for the music already.
*****
Edit:
Ok youre asking about video gane playthrough… well, really it is copyright infringement, but in this case, its not enforced, because its just good publicity.
Now, if someone made a very similar game, thats a different story.
Edited because I misread the question..
On youtube premium, you can. Its a paid subscription service.
This includes the downloads, apparently.
As far as I know, YouTube video plays, views, and downloads all get a certain royalty.
Therefore I dont think its copyright infringement, at least if you are a subscriber.
However, it might be. I mean, Idk for sure, but it may also just be a practical way to have a digital copy of music you have previously purchased on tape or cd.
In that case, its definitely not copyright infringement, since you paid for the music already.
*****
Edit:
Ok youre asking about video gane playthrough… well, really it is copyright infringement, but in this case, its not enforced, because its just good publicity.
Now, if someone made a very similar game, thats a different story.
If I watch a song or a movie on youtube then I’m not going to buy/rent that song or movie.
If I watch a playthrough of a videogame then I will want to buy the game.
Copyright infringement isn’t criminal, its civil. This means that the victim gets to choose if they will try to enforce the law or not. Most companies will ignore copyright infringement because they see it as free advertising, in fact many companies will outright pay YouTubers thousands or even in a few cases millions of dollars to play their games and so see YouTubers doing it for free as wonderful.
Some companies (Nintendo) however will take down videos of people playing their games as it is copyright infringement.
If I watch a song or a movie on youtube then I’m not going to buy/rent that song or movie.
If I watch a playthrough of a videogame then I will want to buy the game.
Copyright infringement isn’t criminal, its civil. This means that the victim gets to choose if they will try to enforce the law or not. Most companies will ignore copyright infringement because they see it as free advertising, in fact many companies will outright pay YouTubers thousands or even in a few cases millions of dollars to play their games and so see YouTubers doing it for free as wonderful.
Some companies (Nintendo) however will take down videos of people playing their games as it is copyright infringement.
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