Copywright Infringment with gaming walkthroughs

What is your stance on this? One of my friends is a fan of someone named darksydephil on youtube and recently his channel was closed down and lost all 7000 videos. He was of course a walkthrough/reveiwer and etc he did quite a few things on his channel from what I heard.

She sent me a video in hopes to spread it I guess, of him talking about legality and claims on the subject so heres the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p88IKnbI4Bc&playnext_from=TL&videos=eXBEClX2psg&feature=sub

Gaming walkthroughs, legal or not?

The remixes people of his stuff are awesome as hell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCub46w--cM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYj0Hmpg4b8

Your link is to some sort of moderation item.dave123321

my bad, I kept switching my copy/past item alot today

now if its under fair use, what exacly gives youtube the right to take the videos down?

If there is such a thing as video game copyright infringment then why do some games feature a 'Straight to Youtube' record feature?

now if its under fair use, what exacly gives youtube the right to take the videos down?Xorital

[QUOTE="Xorital"]now if its under fair use, what exacly gives youtube the right to take the videos down?muthsera666

If it isnt aginst the law I wonder what youtube has to worry about exacly.

Right now i'm trying to remain on neautral grounds

[QUOTE="muthsera666"][QUOTE="Xorital"]now if its under fair use, what exacly gives youtube the right to take the videos down?Xorital

Surely it's different with video games though, I can understand the problem with people uploading movies onto Youtube because you can't PLAY a movie, regardless if you watch a walkthrough for a game, it still doesn't give you the complete experience, it still makes people want to actually play it.

That's textbook Fair Use in terms of concept. Your friend's reviewer or whatever ought to file a counterclaim. I can't stand DMCA trolls, screw them all. That's just the problem with You Tube, they bend over so easily from a DMCA takedown notice. Even when Fair Use is blindingly obvious.

What's even more confusing is that there are Youtube members that have become partners because of their walkthrough videos.

Under the diminishing fair use rules they are. Unfortunately what is fair to the consumer has been forgotten with new copywrite legislation. Give it a few years and I am sure we will start to see companies pushing for this to be declared illegal.

with the issue comming up more and more i'm sure some kind of legal action will eventualy be taken and the matter will eventualy be settled.

There were only a few companies that complained about his playthroughts if im not mistaken, i think it was Activision, Ubisoft and another one i seem to have forgotten. Now, the question reminds if its legal? Im quiet sure it is, seeing as you:

1) pay for the content in the disc, so its legally yours

2)you are no in way distributing their content

Now im sure these companies have a loop hole of some sort, and i think google has had enough complains regarding the acusations of copy right infrigement so they dont feel like actually defending their users and just shut down a certain channel if a company threatens to take legal action . Though imo, i think those companies mentioned above are just being jackasses over something to harmless.

As much as I despise the copyright laws I feel they're right in this case. The law says it's legal to use these videos when reviewing them and not showing the WHOLE game. This isn't fair use. If it were you would see whole movies on the internet with live commentary on from reviewers.. yeh that's why it's illegal.wurd

He isnt making any money off these walkthroughs, he uses his videos for comedy, reveiw and adds his own honest commentary about the game while playing which falls under reveiw I guess. There is no law that states a reveiw cant be of the entire game as an experiance.

We don't make the rules, the rules make us. All worship the rules of the few. So that they may taunt us and strip us naked as they please.