Ive seen a few videos on yt using full factorio music tracks directly from the game with not even a mention of where it is from in the description.
This irks me. Factorial is not made by a team of rich soulless devs. They have made and maintained something great for us and people are just taking from it to monetize their lazy content. They deserve fan help in protecting assets we have all grown to love from abuse.
What can i do to report this? Youtube does NOT let people that dont own the content report copyright claims.
Copyright of Factorio Assets
Re: Copyright of Factorio Assets
According to the Terms of Service, uploading Content to YouTube is permissible (with some conditions):
rejection response. However.... Space Age / 2.0 introduced variable music tracks which presents an infinitely variable "content" - so this may not even be feasible to Takedown!
The best advice would probably be to contact Wube Software using the email address above with a link to the offending video URLs - not to link them here, as that would drive traffic to the infringers.
Good Luck!
Directly uploading the Soundtrack sounds like a pretty easy case to handle: Wube Software just needs to claim it through Google's labyrinthine forms and await an automatedAny commercial use of the Factorio source code, art assets or other affiliated assets is subject to express consent of Wube Software Ltd. For this purpose you can contact us on factorio@factorio.com. This does not affect your Video Policy set out below.
VIDEO POLICY
If you are a valid user of the game, you may use our content for the purpose of creating videos (such as tutorials, walkthroughs, reviews etc.), uploading them on video sharing platforms (such as Youtube) and monetize those.
You are not allowed to extract assets from our content and distribute those separately (e.g. sound effects, graphics, music).
We reserve the right to revoke this permission if the video is being used in a way we see as inappropriate, and reserve the right to takedown such videos.
The best advice would probably be to contact Wube Software using the email address above with a link to the offending video URLs - not to link them here, as that would drive traffic to the infringers.
Good Luck!
Re: Copyright of Factorio Assets
Thanks!
Re: Copyright of Factorio Assets
Please let Wube decide how they want to enforce their copyright. I am pretty sure they are aware and they also know themselves how to send a copyright notice on YouTube.
But consider that it is not always in the best interest of the copyright holder to always enforce their rights. Especially smaller artists and studios thrive from word of mouth. Even if somebody does not give any credit, copyright strikes can quickly escalate into nobody using any of their materials at all. For big music studios that might be the way to go, they still have a lot of resources and influence without viral marketing, but for small studios this is a death nail.
Just consider the big red gaming company starting with N: They are known for being litigious, but in reality so many videos are using their music which they could all claim of they wanted. But they don't; to stay cultural relevant without spending billions on global advertisement.
But consider that it is not always in the best interest of the copyright holder to always enforce their rights. Especially smaller artists and studios thrive from word of mouth. Even if somebody does not give any credit, copyright strikes can quickly escalate into nobody using any of their materials at all. For big music studios that might be the way to go, they still have a lot of resources and influence without viral marketing, but for small studios this is a death nail.
Just consider the big red gaming company starting with N: They are known for being litigious, but in reality so many videos are using their music which they could all claim of they wanted. But they don't; to stay cultural relevant without spending billions on global advertisement.