If I stream or do videos about World of Warcraft will I get a strike for using the game music or content in the game using YouTube to stream with?
I’m certainly not an expert on this kind of thing, but I believe you should be fine so long as you credit the original source. Sometimes, YouTube will do it for you and attach “World of Warcraft” underneath the description to link to the game’s official page. People stream and make videos about WoW all of the time without too much issue. If you want to be extra safe, though, just put “World of Warcraft” somewhere in the title and credit the music you’ve been using.
The best place to look would be a website that talks about copyright and fair use laws… not the WoW forums.
I mean, unless you really want the advice of an armchair lawyer. I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night AND I watch Law & Order. I mean, it’s SVU but meh, same thing.
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you’re going downtown for a long time, elf!
No, only if you use something like a song or other intellectual property that’s trademarked for non-distribution, without giving credit to the original author for “fair use” which is to say it’s for entertainment or education and done for free basically. If you’re making money on it there’s more hoops to jump through cause it’s a business transaction and the company and or original producer doesn’t want you freeloading off them.
But other than that it’s fine. Even then most of the time a company like Blizzard won’t really sue because it’s public domain, everyone has access to it with a sub, just don’t profit off copyrighting or otherwise make it clear it’s fair use (not commercially beneficial or profitable)
Most companies/artists do not care as long as you’re not taking money for stuff they’ve done, because that’s theft.
I don’t believe so.
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I stream WoW and other games constantly. In 2.5 years have never been hit with a Copyright strike. Trick is to just add the “Blizzard®” in your content.
no, i stream and use gaming music all the time, including wows/d4 while playing their games and sometimes not and have never been
probably not
this one is a much more slippery slope.
Haven’t had any problems with Blizz with that. Have had problems with Square though. Had one video of E3 one year where they showed a trailer for a game and just a minute of song and it was enough to get a strike.
You can always just copy the too youtuber’s fine print, there is an account that uses all the music with screenshots and they put this on every video:
Copyright information
I do not own any of the visuals or audio in my videos and my channel is not monetized. All ads direct revenue to the respective copyright owners through the Content ID system. Please check out the copyright links to the original music in the links below. Videos on my channel are removed immediately upon request from the copyright owners or YouTube.
If this is okay regular streaming your gameplay definitely is.
They also make money through other things though not the YouTube directly, and this seems like a grey area because Idk if they pay royalties on “tips” or not.
never seen people get struck down for using wow content, if anything blizzard supports streamers considering every few months they give us stuff if we watch people streaming wow