Saturday, January 19, 2013

Microsoft says 'No' to profit from video game footage

Laziness delayed this but, I finally have time to speak about this.

A few months back Microsoft decided to updateclarify its Game Content Usage Rules especially as it relates to videos of its content.

Everyone knows how popular Halo vids are on YouTube.  Halo does so well that some Halo commentators may make some 'change' off of their videos.

Has this ship set sail?
The confusing legal jargon that no one probably bothered to understand now explains that individuals are no longer allowed to post Microsoft content for profit unless that individual does so in association with Machinima or Rooster Teeth or some other company.  A post by bs angel on the Halo Waypoint forums may shed more light on it:
Both Rooster Teeth and Machinima have held our normal commercial licenses for years (and others can reach out to us for commercial licenses as well), so rest assured they will continue to exist as you know them.  The majority of everything the community makes currently is fine, as long as they are not basically running a big Halo-based business or using Halo as if the IP was its own property.  That actually isn’t a change to our policy, simply a clarification and update of the dry legal language, and as we’ve mentioned, even that “new” language was actually updated months ago.  We don’t have squads of lawyers waiting in the wings to go after folks making machinima, or showing off their skills in Halo.  Basically it’s business as usual.
So if you want to make videos just go on as you always have.  Unless you had ads on your videos or were making profit from them in some other way(not exactly sure on that last bit).  Then you need to get partnered up.

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