Nintendo claims Monetization on Youtube with videos involving their games

[D.A._Sakuyamon]

http://www.thealistdaily.com/news/nintendo-claiming-monetization-rights-for-certain-youtube-videos/

 

Discuss this rather unnecessary move by Nintendo. 

[Cin]

And here I thought Nintendo wanted people to play their games? Youtube can be a vital source of walkthroughs for games for potential buyers to watch games to decide if they want to buy the game or not. It reminds me of when they when ape on Pokemon releases over the last generation, not allowing any footage (or images) to be posted before it's global release. 

 

I can understand Nintendo wanting to earn money from their games, but surely they earn enough through any add on sales within the game (upgrades and things) or the first sale point.

[Nicο]

I don't actually care about LPs but I don't see how this doesn't make sense. The top there makes the most sense, nobody should be earning renevue from any of this, and it's said they aren't blocking anything, so it seems to be for the better imo.

The most that's happening really is ads and I also don't see that as a problem.

And here I thought Nintendo wanted people to play their games? Youtube can be a vital source of walkthroughs for games for potential buyers to watch games to decide if they want to buy the game or not.

They can still watch the videos.

[Cin]

Yes, but it discourages people from posting is the point I'm trying to make. Why make/post something if someone else benefits from it and not yourself.

[Northern Sage]

Yes, but it discourages people from posting is the point I'm trying to make. Why make/post something if someone else benefits from it and not yourself.

Because it's still their property.

It's clever on the basis that Youtube seems to have a good way of identifying the content, but not actually remove it systematically. *cough*most non-VEVO or own content uploads of music on Youtube*cough*

[D.A._Sakuyamon]

Because it's still their property.

It's clever on the basis that Youtube seems to have a good way of identifying the content, but not actually remove it systematically. *cough*most non-VEVO or own content uploads of music on Youtube*cough*

It's their "game(s)" yes but they didn't make the video, they didn't provide the commentary, and yet all they care about is that because your making a video of the game they automatically are allowed to make money off of it. You playing the game & recording it for others to watch is "free" advertisement in of itself. Going out of the way to say hey you know what lets get the ball rolling and make it so now we have people giving us free advertisement and make extra money off of that to.

[Blake]

Didn't read article, so correct me if this is more Nintendo of America instead of Nintendo period.

Japan's copyright laws are extremely strict and say that if you don't vehemently defend your Intellectual Property, you lose your rights to it. They must have some reason for this move, and it likely lies there.

[D.A._Sakuyamon]

Didn't read article, so correct me if this is more Nintendo of America instead of Nintendo period.

Japan's copyright laws are extremely strict and say that if you don't vehemently defend your Intellectual Property, you lose your rights to it. They must have some reason for this move, and it likely lies there.

 

Here's the official statement they gave out.

 

 

 

"As part of our on-going push to ensure Nintendo content is shared across social media channels in an appropriate and safe way, we became a YouTube partner and as such in February 2013 we registered our copyright content in the YouTube database. For most fan videos this will not result in any changes, however, for those videos featuring Nintendo-owned content, such as images or audio of a certain length, adverts will now appear at the beginning, next to or at the end of the clips," they said. "We continually want our fans to enjoy sharing Nintendo content on YouTube, and that is why, unlike other entertainment companies, we have chosen not to block people using our intellectual property."

 

Something to note however is that Nintendo has been hitting partnered channels that do have the necessary licences thanks to their affiliates, such as Machinama.

 

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[Cin]

Youtube already contains far too many adverts as it is, I remember when I was watching someone's play through of DMC, YT felt the need to put ads at the beginning and end of the videos sometimes 2 ads in a row. Youtube need to sort there advertising out also, Nintendo are just making it worse.

[.Corgi]

Nintendo are good at games, but anything else.... Bleh.

[Βyakuya]

Ironic how Nintendo is doing this to increase their revenue from ads. Yet if they're monopolizing Nintendo-related videos including parodies and LPs, don't they support the Nintendo franchise in a way it shows viewers either how entertaining or as even how weird or interesting it can be? Quite unnecessary approach Nintendo. Stick to making video games and stay out of the Copyright department.

[Ярополк Пономарёв]

I see nobody has brought up the largest grey area in copyright law yet: Fair Use. In most cases, commentaries of video games fall under fair use, since video games are an interactive media, therefor allowing for different experiences based on who's playing it. They aren't like movies, where you can only see it one way. Therefor, video games are often considered a transformative work, and transformative works can me monetized under US law (which is what YouTube falls under due to its location).

 

In the long run, the money that YouTube commentators get is far less than is earned by the hype drawn to games since those videos are made. A lot of the big commentators use high quality studio equipment, costing upwards of $10,000, just so everyone can get a decent experience. They need the money to pay off that, and pay off their lives. Being a YouTube commentator is a full-time job, and you just can't do it for free. 

[Tentacruel]

Strongly against this.

 

Let's plays are a gray area, but if I use footage from a Nintendo game for a review or other commentary, that should be completely covered by fair use. 

[Just Crouton]

Nintendo has sort of opened the door to a possible alternative to the never-ending battle of hitting Youtubers with copyright.

 

It would be interesting if, say, Toei monetized all everybody's subbed Sentai/Masked Rider episodes uploaded on the site, or if Gainax or whatever put ads on someone's upload of the recent Evangelion movies.

 

There seems to be this idea on the internet that "if a company does something I agree with, they care about the fans, but if they do something I don't agree with, they're just trying to make money and that's evil." Seeing the backlash of Nintendo doing this, with some boycotting making Nintendo videos, and other deliberately crappy Mario LPs then baiting Nintendo to monetize it, imagine how people who upload copyrighted videos like Sentai/Masked Rider/anime will respond if they find that they're feeding the evil, greedy companies that had their 55th channel terminated for the same copyright claims as the past 54 because they're evil and greedy and don't care about their fans and they molest turtles and they rip the teeth out the mouths of slow lorises before setting them on fire.

 

There's an idea here, and it can work, in theory, provided the fanbases of the above mentioned are as stupid as this theory assumes.

[Death Metal]

They make the games, they have the say. That's the reality of the situation. Enjoying the game and sharing it with other should be the main priority of LPers, not making as much money as they can.

 

But hey, that's just my opinion.