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

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

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