User Monetization of BI's games Audio&Video content(e.g. Youtube Partnership Program)

[sparks50]

The Minecraft terms of use says that you're free to do whatever you want with screenshots and videos of the game, as long as you don't rip art from it. This may partly explain why there are so many Minecraft Lets plays on Youtube. So its interesting that you bring up a game with kind of a similar deal.

[Smurf]

Is BIS getting any money from the user (which made the video) with this?
Or this is just legal stuff for the users that made the videos to legally get the money from Ads ?

Or both?

[Tonci87]

Is BIS getting any money from the user (which made the video) with this?

NO unless you make more than 1000€

Or this is just legal stuff for the users that made the videos to legally get the money from Ads ?

YES

[Dwarden]

note: you don't need re-edit and reupload already uploaded videos, you will lose Your YT view counts etc.

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NO unless you make more than 1000€
YES

nobody said anything about charging, that's up to individual license terms ...

[antoineflemming]

just slight correction, this may not be true if You making the amount over 1k/month, hence why it needs new individual license ...

we're trying to be fair for these who make it for free and then split between these who do it for small profit or for serious profit

I wasn't even thinking about people making that much.... Serious profit never crossed my mind.

[Dwarden]

Aren't they already? BIS isn't thinking about Machinima, they are thinking of their own coffers. Which they should ofcourse, only that all the bloody let's plays out there are free advertising for all those games. BIS could just look at it as paying for advertising, and they wouldn't have to spend a dime on it. Further, the more and broader the audience, the more potential for customers... This is advertising guys! You're just making a regime that eventually everybody will leave out because they can't bother the bureaucracy.

PS! I don't do let's play, I don't plan to do let's play - I just enjoy them - and buy the games!

PS2! Ever heard of Minecraft. Like that would happen if it wasn't for youtube????

ZNorQ

Surely you should be paying them, if they are making 1k a month out of video's showing your game / engine then you are probably getting 10's (or 100's) of k per month of free advertising.

G

it's no free advertising, they make a cash on our content, not just theirs creativity

consider it like mixing up music, mixing/rehashing movie content, all that if generates profit usually needs license/IP owner approval

anyway once again i suggest everyone to read the original post, read the document and read all my answers ...

absurd construct about conspiracies shall go into offtopic

[Smurf]

NO unless you make more than 1000€


YES

note: you don't need re-edit and reupload already uploaded videos, you will lose Your YT view counts etc.

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nobody said anything about charging, that's up to individual license terms ...

Thank you, that clears up everything.

[SpetS15]

I first thought that monetization (Im not YT partner) was something like 1 cent per view (lol), but then I hear that somebody have to click the Add in the video, and nobody does that, and you cant tell your friends to do that neither, and since I only have like 180 subscribers, it doesnt even worth for me anyway, it was only to support a little bit our server :s

[Dwarden]

again @carlgustava you don't understood the license term nor the subject ...
media subjects are approved to use what we release via press releases and press channels ...
which You obviously not aware of theirs existence at all nor of existance of press-kits
etc.

[Max Power]

Thread cleaned up.

Please only comment if you have specific comments or questions about the Partnership Program. This thread is to announce the program, to explain it, and to aid users in understanding and using it. This is not discussion about the commercialization of the internet at large.