Re:WoW streamer hires YouTubers who leeched off his stream t...
by dleslie on Monday December 16, 2019 @09:52AM
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Streamers are also creating derivative works; few would be as popular if their streams could not feature gameplay footage, and their use of such stretches well beyond short clips for review or parody.
Re-uploaders pare down lengthy streams, edit multiple streams together, and engage in other content modifying behaviour. Their work, though derivative, should be tolerated if we're going to tolerate the behaviour of streamers. Streamers argued for this tolerance, after all.
Derivative work is well, derivative, and it's regulated by the law, whether it's a translation or sampling of music or video compilation. Depending on the country/state the definition by law differs, but generally you're allowed to use only small portions of other people's work and there's a requirement to create something that is significantly different to the work used, so that it can be considered as an original piece. So re-uploading is very fringe activity in the eyes of the copyright law.