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21. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

If I made a video with actual video game with my own telestration effects and audio I understand that it would considered transformative and fair use. Here is the catch, if I sold my video walk throughs ...

22. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... transformative use is probably fair use. As long as you're adding your own creative input and message to the original, you have good grounds to claim fair use. ...

23. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

Simon - That's a bit tricky because it could be construed as commercial use since you're advertising yourself, but all in all I think it is transformative and doesn't compete with the original, and there's ...

24. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

@Patrick, thanks for giving me your opinion on the matter of original gameplay videos counting as transformative. My video had commentary and original gameplay, but I received a copyright claim for the ...

25. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

@Danny - Meme dances like Harlem Shake I believe area a classic example of fair use since they put an original spin on the song and would be considered transformative. For a compilation of Harlem Shake ...

26. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

@ Ryan - Videos like that are kind of iffy since if you're just using the music in the sound track to a video that is otherwise unrelated to the song, it's probably not transformative enough to be fair ...

27. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

Well if you post it for purposes of commentary it could be I suppose. Without doing something transformative though, it's kind of a weak fair use case, but it still could be. ...

28. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

Jessica, you are right that your use is borderline commercial. That doesn't necessarily mean it's not fair use, though your pictures may or may not add enough original meaning to the song to count as transformative ...

29. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... clips. @Steve - Even when use for educational purposes, I rather doubt lyric videos are transformative enough to count as fair use. All you're really doing is putting the song on YouTube verbatim with ...

30. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... as follows on each song: "This video is fair use under U.S. copyright law because it is (1) non-commercial, (2) transformative in nature, (3) uses no more of the original work than necessary for the video's ...

31. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

If you're streaming full films even for non-commercial purposes that is still copyright infringement. Since there's no transformative use and you would be clearly competing with paid services which license ...

32. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

Commercial use can be fair use as long as it is strong enough on the other prongs of the fair use test. I think commentary and strategy guides for video games are sufficiently transformative to be fair ...

33. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

@saruman - Making a movie about someone playing a video game is probably fair use since the copyrighted material is used only incidentally and in a transformative way. @Nick - Cutting in brief scenes from ...

34. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

Oh sorry, guess I missed yours. That kind of use of music (videos of football games set to music) is a little more a gray area because you're not really doing anything transformative with the music. But ...

35. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

I can't really give you an actual opinion, but fair use works the same on Facebook as it does on YouTube. If your video is noncommercial, for largely private purposes, makes a transformative use of the ...

36. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... eligible for monetization regardless, though I'm not sure. Adam--Changing the lyrics of a song counts as transformative, and personal, non-public use is much more likely to be fair use than publicly distributing ...

37. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

Yes, using a short clip of a song for transformative purposes such as lip syncing would typically be fair use. ...

38. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

Lyrics videos that just show the lyrics as the song plays are probably not transformative enough to qualify as fair use, since they don't really change anything or add new meaning or message. Slight alterations ...

39. Disputing Copyright Notifications (Comments)

I do not think just changing a video to black and white is enough of a chance to qualify as transformative. It might be okay to post short clips of a movie that way, but posting an entire copyrighted movie ...

40. Disputing Copyright Notifications (Comments)

... probably fair use. It re-contextualizes them and stringing them together as a movie makes it a different experience than playing the game, which makes it a transformative use. ...