2013-05-16, 04:30 PM
Lozmaster Wrote:If you are making ad revenue from lets plays of nintendo games (or virtually anyone elses for that matter) you're already breaking the youtube adsense TaC.
That is not true.
http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/an...wer=138161
Quote:What can I monetize?
Video game content may be monetized depending on the commercial use rights granted to you by licenses of video game publishers. Some video game publishers allow you to use all video game content for commercial use and state that in their license agreements. Likewise, videos showing software user interface may be monetized only if you have a contract with the publisher or you have paid a licensing fee.
Partnership programs follow the same general rule. You can upload videos of video games with commentary and the like if it's for the purpose of walkthroughs or whatever, but uploading video game content over a certain length without any reason (no commentary, etc.) puts it in the red zone. Moreover, you cannot crisscross video games with other media sources. For instance, you cannot play a game like World of Warcraft with AC/DC playing in the background. You cannot upload video game footage if that video game includes any kind of music by an artist whose music is not listed as free-use on Youtube, whether those songs are actually part of the game or not. You also cannot play Mario and have Zelda music playing in the background. If you upload video game footage, it has to be including only its own content, plus whatever you do to make it unique (commentary, video editing for guidelines, etc.).
Video game content itself is not against Adsense's Terms and Conditions. If it were, anyone up to this point would have been nailed long, long ago, including myself and Zelkova.