What I learned from watching six hours of Starcraft

Re:What I learned from watching six hours of Starcraft by richcollins on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @07:23PM (#2172925)

Blizzard makes the most money as the copyright holder. They can shut down any of the casters streams whenever they so desire.

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Re:What I learned from watching six hours of Starcraft by kjr on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @07:26PM (#2172944)

Wouldn't it be better if Blizzard employed them? Set up internal league systems and actually embraced e-sports as a revenue generating area? I think the next evolution of e-sports will be a big name company actually doing the above. Problem is it is pretty risky to do. Games with huge fanbases and legacies of e-sports like starcraft/counterstrike are probably the only ones were it would work right out of the gate.

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Re:What I learned from watching six hours of Starcraft by mcantor on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @07:25PM (#2172937)

Maybe I'm having a brain fart, but... under what legal auspice could Blizzard force them to shut down the streams?

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Re:What I learned from watching six hours of Starcraft by richcollins on Thursday February 03, 2011 @01:32PM (#2175967)

Copyright law. They already sued Kespa into submission. I'm guessing at some point that they will anoint a company with exclusive rights to broadcast SC2 and start suing everyone else.

http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/3171

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Re:What I learned from watching six hours of Starcraft by hartror on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @07:29PM (#2172963)

Really? I would have thought it is fair use, but I guess no Machinima producers have true tested the law in this regard? Certainly Blizzard attempts to control the use through the TOU and restrict derivative content to non-commercial use only.

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Re:What I learned from watching six hours of Starcraft by mcantor on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @07:52PM (#2173032)

But it's not Machinima... it's just a broadcast of their product being used exactly as it is intended. Wouldn't that be like a baseball bat manufacturer telling someone to take videos of their Little League game off of YouTube?

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Re:What I learned from watching six hours of Starcraft by ohashi on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @10:44PM (#2173495)

Well, they are adding commentary(audio) to video from in-game. To me that seems like machinima.

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Re:What I learned from watching six hours of Starcraft by baddox on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @07:31PM (#2172972)

In the USA, fair use legal precedent has mostly been superseded by laws such as the DMCA. I don't agree with it, but that's the legal situation we're in these days.

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Re:What I learned from watching six hours of Starcraft by TeHCrAzY on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @09:16PM (#2173242)

I wasn't aware that fair use was superseded in any way by the DMCA. Cant you explain how that works?

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