What I learned from watching six hours of Starcraft

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In the USA, fair use legal precedent has mostly been superseded by laws such as the DMCA.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I wasn't aware that fair use was superseded in any way by the DMCA.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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