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Don't worry, at the moment it will not.How will it affect the answer I've been given?
Oh, you're AOK and absolutely set to go at the momentWell, while I'm not a lawyer, I'm choosing to treat the post above as written permission until someone tells me otherwise.
This is probably more an "I can't find what I'm looking for, could someone please point me at it?" kind of post.
I'm wondering if someone could outline the restrictions on use of ED game footage in YouTube videos?
Obviously I know there are countless Let's Plays and suchlike out there, but, specifically, I'm wanting to know if a video using such footage has to be exclusively ED-related. That is, am I permitted to use ED footage as a visual background while discussing something other than ED, or maybe not game-related at all?
In answer to the obvious "why", it's basically because I play several games like ED which are, for me, kind of 'way of life' games, but have different settings. And until I've got the courage to put myself on screen, it'd be kind of neat to have ED running as a backdrop if I'm talking about science or sci-fi, X-Plane or one of the Truck Sim games if I'm talking about specific places, and so on.
But obviously I'd not want to violate any copyrights or anything in doing it.
Any advice would be appreciated.
I'll let you into a secret: this is exactly why I'm never going to actually make anything. I have big ideas, pretend that I'm capable of making something worth the time to upload, then put it off until the idea fades away naturally and I don't have to face the realisation that I'm not and never could be.
I've been watching a lot of, I think they call them 'video essays' these days and it kind of got me inspired momentarily. But I just need to ride it out for a day or two and that sense of inspiration will pass, like it always has for writing or playing music, drawing/painting, programming, learning languages and everything else.