Even if it wasn't a misunderstanding and she actually welshed on the sponsorship, I don't understand how it is any of Twitch's business. It should be between streamer and sponsor, what gives Ubisoft the right to get someone banned over it and why the fuck would Twitch comply. (other than obvious corporate faggotry)
Yeah they should just go to another platform and take a 90% pay cut to stand up for my principles that i firmly hold via text comments on the internet.
To add, fair use isn't actually formal law, it's case law. Companies technically have the right to make you take shit down for copyright, it's just that the vast majority of game developers understand that streaming is free advertisement, so don't do so. Japan doesn't have the concept of fair use in their case law, which is why Japanese developers get more pissy about it than Western developers. Ubisoft just decided to abuse the copyright system
Edit: didn't know fair use was actually formal law, thought it was only case law
Maybe what you meant is that fair use is an affirmative defense...? It will win a case for you, but if a rights holder is determined to take you to court over it then it won't immunise you from the hassle of a court battle and most content platforms will acquiesce to the takedown in the meanwhile. This has all supposedly changed a lot in the last 10 years with hosting platforms being asked to 'recognise fair use' more, although idk exactly what form that has taken. I don't think it's been tested much since devs have mostly stopped worrying about it.
Thank you, I am stupid and for some reason after reading the title and image I thought they banned her for not following thru on the sponsorship, they banned her for supposedly breaking embargo.
Intellectual property. Twitch doesn't want people streaming pirated games that were released too early. This could cause significant financial damage to video games. Tons of video game sales happen in the first 24h and any spoilers before then could significantly impact the sales.
Even if it wasn't a misunderstanding and she actually welshed on the sponsorship, I don't understand how it is any of Twitch's business. It should be between streamer and sponsor, what gives Ubisoft the right to get someone banned over it and why the fuck would Twitch comply. (other than obvious corporate faggotry)
Because she's a vtuber, and twitch fucking hates vtubers with a passion. I don't understand why they continue to stream on that garbage website.
Yeah they should just go to another platform and take a 90% pay cut to stand up for my principles that i firmly hold via text comments on the internet.
The only issue was she wasn't black and trans.
To add, fair use isn't actually formal law, it's case law.Companies technically have the right to make you take shit down for copyright, it's just that the vast majority of game developers understand that streaming is free advertisement, so don't do so. Japan doesn't have the concept of fair use in their case law, which is why Japanese developers get more pissy about it than Western developers. Ubisoft just decided to abuse the copyright systemEdit: didn't know fair use was actually formal law, thought it was only case law
It's literally part of the formal federal law. The United States title code.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107
Maybe what you meant is that fair use is an affirmative defense...? It will win a case for you, but if a rights holder is determined to take you to court over it then it won't immunise you from the hassle of a court battle and most content platforms will acquiesce to the takedown in the meanwhile. This has all supposedly changed a lot in the last 10 years with hosting platforms being asked to 'recognise fair use' more, although idk exactly what form that has taken. I don't think it's been tested much since devs have mostly stopped worrying about it.
Thank you, I am stupid and for some reason after reading the title and image I thought they banned her for not following thru on the sponsorship, they banned her for supposedly breaking embargo.
Intellectual property. Twitch doesn't want people streaming pirated games that were released too early. This could cause significant financial damage to video games. Tons of video game sales happen in the first 24h and any spoilers before then could significantly impact the sales.