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Seems entirely reasonable. And something that more media companies should do. If you want to yell politics don't do it while showing someone else's product.
by Ekaros 2y ago
Seems entirely reasonable. And something that more media companies should do. If you want to yell politics don't do it while showing someone else's product.
- mjburgess 2y agoI think this is probably the right take. Streaming a video game is a legal grey area, and effectively the video game developer giving you the right to show copyrighted material for free -- a benefit with enormous value (given how many millions flow into streaming). It seems a reasonable limitation that the game developer can require people profiting from their copyrighted works to do so with some limitations. These should not apply to fair use situations, eg., parody/review/etc. But it seems highly plausible that streaming a video game is outside of fair use, and enabled by video game companies as a marketing strategy. For many video games, a stream of them replaces the point of playing them, so anti-fair use. Any sense of entitlement streamers have to this IP I think is misplaced.