https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38Sff9FEIwg
Since Professor Francoeur has been talking about copyrights recently, I have found a video that discusses the copyrights of gameplay posted on YouTube. Gameplay commentaries, walkthroughs, and live streams featuring games in them have been on YouTube for a while now. Whether it is commentaries over Minecraft, Call of Duty or GTA, these videos are usually monetized. Back in late 2013, many members of the YouTube community were given quite a scare. YouTube enabled a Content ID check which would flag videos of YouTubers posting game play. The whole point of this is so people posting gameplay cannot make ad revenue off a video using gameplay footage from another company.
Currently, if you wanted to publish a video featuring another company’s video game footage, it must have monetization turned off, which means ads do not appear on the video you publish. YouTubers that do post monetized gameplay footage are usually affiliated with a larger game network that pays for the license to use that footage.
Video games are a perfect example of how copyright comes into play. I know that in Grand Theft Auto all of the cars used within the video games series are “knock off” versions of brand name vehicles. Video games too are required to gain permission from brands in order for its content to be used within.