KonradLaw
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Movie critics don't include the whole contents of the movie with their free criticism, nor does PublishersWeekly. Farming tools makers make their money selling tools, not produce, and the existence of produce can under no circumstance undermine the need for anyone to buy a farming tool, which is such an obvious and pointless statement it makes me weirded out that I have to say it.
This thread is a goldmine of awful analogies.
They use the materials from original source. Movie reviews often have fragments and pictures, book reviews have excerpts and cover images. Those analogies were ridiculous, but I fully admited it in the same post. They're just to make a point, which was a question where should the line be, because we need that line otherwise those ridiculous examples will be true.
A full recording of a game without any comment does seem to be overboard. But where do we put the line between that and using any material? I feel like if somebody is doing the video about a game and showing just portion of it with commentary, then that shouldn't entitle the creator of that game to a cut. Long form letsplays are different though. It feels like if it's truly transformative production then it shouldn't be required to give the creator a cut, while for straight recording of the whole game with barely any commentary should be acompanied by a cut. But how would be decide? We would need some human input in those cases, as the distinctions seem like they might get too blurry for algoritm to decide.