Nintendo ID Claims Youtube LPs

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Luckily for Iwata, Fair Use is not a concrete thing and Let's Players are abusing part 3.

Which enters the sticky realm of how to determine exactly what amount of the video game is being shown.

The programming is not being shown or experienced, so that's a whole portion of the game right there. The next is that no LPer ever has performed every action at every pixel point on the game, which are all actions that lead to the overall amount of a game.

Until a court actually rules that a game's whole is consituted more by the progression from A to B than to do with what can be done within its restrictions and how much of its inner mechanisms are considered, LP videos are, for the most part, fair use media.

The only exceptions I can think of would be if somebody actually set out to perform every action on every pixel of every screen the game has to offer.


Quickly now, while I'm lucid: we've been talking about video games this whole debate, but what of their predecessor? Should Let's Play channels which focus on board games also be disallowed to monetize their videos?