i messaged him that and said if it was an honest mistake, all he has to do is give credit, but if he either knew he was stealing, or wont give credit, i would report him. I'm awaiting a response from him.
I'm not sure we have very strong legal grounds for requiring any kind of credits.
Games, including their music and graphics, are the intellectual property of the companies that made them. We don't get copyright, or any kind of other right, for gameplay video or any other kind of derivative work. Thus we have no legal grounds to demand any kind of credits. (But IANAL. This is my limited understanding of copyright law.)
At most we can ask for credits as a sign of good will.
(What this means in practice is that this person is in the same situation as us with respect to potential copyright infringmenet / fair use. It may very well fall under fair use, but that's between this person and the IP owner.)
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I know SDA have been able to have videos taken down from YouTube that were mis-credited (i.e. uploader claimed to play himself when it obviously was a run taken from SDA with the StatIDs stripped).
Well, what license are TASes on this site licensed under? I would hope something like CC BY-SA.
EDIT: As per http://tasvideos.org/SiteLicense.html, all content, including TASes, is CC BY. Therefore, the uploader should mention the author.
I'm not sure we have very strong legal grounds for requiring any kind of credits.
At the very least the input sequence is solely the "intellectual property" of the TASer, similar to how a company develops advantageous gene sequences or an author writes a book.
Then there's the act of creating the video. Official TASes don't have much creativity in them except the decision of where to place the logo and where to end the video, but some users (like Saturn, evilchen and myself) have created what could be called "TASMVs" (TAS music videos).
Of course this is the internet and data is widely available to anyone, so there's not much one could do except pleading for fairness and/or contacting the video hoster.
I'm not a lawyer, and this is a legal morass, but I have researched copyright law a little. And here's my understanding:
Copyright is held by the author of the run. If you're going to flag the run make sure you have proper standing. If you flag a video that you do not hold copyright to you may be liable for punitive action for knowingly filing a false claim.
Moreover, gameplay videos are not generally protected by fair use, which means that in general TAS videos may be unlawful should the author of the game step in. While this doesn't really change the status of your claim against the video maker, it does bring extra scrutiny to bear on us.
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To clarify: Yes, the author of the keypress input file has (AFAIK) copyright on said file, because it's a work fully created by said author (and which isn't even derivative work because the file contains zero content from the game.)
However, the video capture of gameplay, even if it's being played by an emulator using said keypress file, is most probably not copyrighted to anybody else than the owners of the original game. The video can be considered derivative work.
Fair use in most countries protects the rights of people to make reviews, commentaries, parodies and other similar things of copyrighted works. However, a gameplay video is probably somewhere in the fuzzy line between.
Not that I'd be one to lead the crusade (I'm apathetic to the cause and who in their right mind would copy the ending to Carmen Sandiego?), but hasn't YouTube gotten extremely conservative about copyright infringement lately? Couldn't TASVideos users claim unfair use of their copyrighted material and spook YouTube into removing the videos and possibly even suspending or banning the user? By the time any copyright claims are challenged and overturned, the user should be reeling from several infractions.
To clarify: Yes, the author of the keypress input file has (AFAIK) copyright on said file, because it's a work fully created by said author (and which isn't even derivative work because the file contains zero content from the game.)
However, the video capture of gameplay, even if it's being played by an emulator using said keypress file, is most probably not copyrighted to anybody else than the owners of the original game. The video can be considered derivative work.
Perhaps, but if they really are copying the TASes, the video is also derived from the input file, on which the author holds full copyright. I'm not a lwayer either, but it seems that this would give TASVideos (\ the author) enough grounds to have the video removed.
Personally, I wouldn't focus too much on the legal part (TASes are quite blurry on this part, at least for their "distribution" in video format)... But I'm all for the "give credit where credit is due", especially when you monetize something. I mean that I'm more concerned about the moral aspect.
Let us not add any legitimacy to the youtube automatic takedown system by using it ourselves. At least he doesn't seem to be claiming to have made these TASes himself, so he probably isn't plagiarizing on purpose. He might just be lazy. Giving credit is the right thing to do, and it would be polite of him to do so. But by not doing so, he is just being rude - he isn't actually hurting any of us. So I don't think we need to work ourselves up into a froth about this.
I also once found a little troll on YouTube who's not giving credit to the actual authors. On his channel there're a few speedruns and TASes. He even points out, that he's the author of the videos. Althought he has less videos, this is something that shouldn't be done.
I've already contacted him a month ago, but he's not going to change anything.
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TASeditor wrote:
I also once found a little troll on YouTube who's not giving credit to the actual authors. On his channel there're a few speedruns and TASes. He even points out, that he's the author of the videos. Althought he has less videos, this is something that shouldn't be done.
I've already contacted him a month ago, but he's not going to change anything.
who?
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