Using Final Fantasy XI Copyrighted Material (12/12/2013)Follow

Oh yay, wasn't enough for FFXIV to say "no you can't make machinima and MMD videos", now they're extending it to FFXI, too.

I'm really starting to hate SE when it comes to this.

Does this mean less videos on Youtube where people put in "Last Resort" in their videos about Dark Knight?

Dear SE,

I came back because of user-made videos. Just so you know, you're losing free advertising. Smart move.

-Me

Music videos are such a huge part of fandom, though. Honestly, what they're asking us not to do is getting pretty close to violating Fair Use laws. It doesn't dilute the brand or put the game in a bad light to have an electronic remix of Recollection reminding us why we loved the game so much.

With the whole "permission from original copyright holder thing" - I wonder if they got nag messages from certain industry studios about not policing their footage for copyright violations?

I wouldn't put it past the RIAA to start threatening to sue video game studios for videos that fans made with music from outside artists, because they're jerks like that.

If that's the case, the recollection video is .... probably okay, if the required "blah blah copyright square enix" watermark was added. Recollection is, in fact, FFXI music, and the dude who did the video got permission from the electronic artist who remixed it before he used it.

I'd blame SE but it's very obviously Youtube at this point. It was never a problem with XI..considering it's 11 years old.

A part of Disney must have rubbed off on them a bit during the last round of Kingdom Hearts titles.

Also, couldn't attempting copyright strikes on videos with third party content potentially put them at risk from the owners of said third party content? A good enough lawyer could easily argue that taking down a video for the presence of something could be seen as a claim of ownership of said something.

edit: Heck, they would have to hire people to search for "final fantsy xi" in not only every language that has unicode characters (quick, change all the video titles to "۱۱ فاینال فانتزی"), but also misspellings, homophones (hard enough for languages like korean, near impossible to do for something like written Chinese, baidu mythical creatures anyone?), but they they also would need to watch every video all the way through to make sure there is no third party content ("Hey guys, I just uploaded my entire trip through the CoP storyline with a static, with the restriction that we do it at level 75 without using any jobs, abilites or items introduced from ToAU onwards" enjoy searching through all those videos for third party content SE).



Edited, Dec 13th 2013 5:32pm by alphamone