Greetings Commanders, I hope you all have been safe during this stressful year. I have a question regarding Copyright and Streaming. I was directed here from the Questions sub-channel.
A group of friends and I have been playing this game for some time and have recently decided to try something different with how we approach the game. We have been messing around a lot with the OBS streaming suite, Discord, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and VoiceAttack at a code/scripting level. We believe that we may have created a way to tie all these things together to create a roleplaying experience within the game that is entertaining but also a way to tell a multi-point of view story.
We are currently crafting a story with fictional characters in relation to Elite: Dangerous lore much like Star Wars: Rogue One characters are to the original trilogy. These characters are not NPCs but played by real people. They don't necessarily have to be playing the game to play the parts because we believe we've created a way to allow non-game playing participants to interact with people playing the game be it 2D or VR. All done in real-time like a normal game stream.
Full disclosure: the code we are writing is being planned as a Community release. No money. Free of charge. This is just a side project for us while dealing with the COVID crisis. We just think that the best way to demonstrate what we are making is to use it as we envisioned it. What we create with the stream will be released on youtube and twitch. Our focus is on the code we are creating and the actual demonstration of it is more for our fun. (e.g. writing funny stories about two deep-space miners in a dead-end job for the Empire and all the characters they encounter when they decide to strike it out on their own; a young woman runs away from home to locate her older sister that left to join the Alliance against a Federation encroachment; A young man in a poverty-stricken Federation system struggling against the pressures to turn to piracy.)
The impetus for this question is that we really didn't consider the demonstration to be much more than just a demonstration. Some outside interest in what we are doing has posed some questions about the stream itself. Specifically: copyright. I understand the whole music copyright issues but that isn't the problem. The question is about the stories and user-created content copyrights.
1) Who shares claims to the story that is written?
2) Some of us already work as content creators. Writers, Video editors, makeup artists, and XR Engineers but no one in streaming. A couple of us have podcasts. Other than the obvious "not use Elite to advertise for our own podcasts", can we use dialogue or graphical content we used in our other works?
3) Regarding video monetization, how different is this to how game streamers get compensated? What do I need to do, look out for, and/or get to make sure no one involved in this development team is breaking any laws?
A group of friends and I have been playing this game for some time and have recently decided to try something different with how we approach the game. We have been messing around a lot with the OBS streaming suite, Discord, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and VoiceAttack at a code/scripting level. We believe that we may have created a way to tie all these things together to create a roleplaying experience within the game that is entertaining but also a way to tell a multi-point of view story.
We are currently crafting a story with fictional characters in relation to Elite: Dangerous lore much like Star Wars: Rogue One characters are to the original trilogy. These characters are not NPCs but played by real people. They don't necessarily have to be playing the game to play the parts because we believe we've created a way to allow non-game playing participants to interact with people playing the game be it 2D or VR. All done in real-time like a normal game stream.
Full disclosure: the code we are writing is being planned as a Community release. No money. Free of charge. This is just a side project for us while dealing with the COVID crisis. We just think that the best way to demonstrate what we are making is to use it as we envisioned it. What we create with the stream will be released on youtube and twitch. Our focus is on the code we are creating and the actual demonstration of it is more for our fun. (e.g. writing funny stories about two deep-space miners in a dead-end job for the Empire and all the characters they encounter when they decide to strike it out on their own; a young woman runs away from home to locate her older sister that left to join the Alliance against a Federation encroachment; A young man in a poverty-stricken Federation system struggling against the pressures to turn to piracy.)
The impetus for this question is that we really didn't consider the demonstration to be much more than just a demonstration. Some outside interest in what we are doing has posed some questions about the stream itself. Specifically: copyright. I understand the whole music copyright issues but that isn't the problem. The question is about the stories and user-created content copyrights.
1) Who shares claims to the story that is written?
2) Some of us already work as content creators. Writers, Video editors, makeup artists, and XR Engineers but no one in streaming. A couple of us have podcasts. Other than the obvious "not use Elite to advertise for our own podcasts", can we use dialogue or graphical content we used in our other works?
3) Regarding video monetization, how different is this to how game streamers get compensated? What do I need to do, look out for, and/or get to make sure no one involved in this development team is breaking any laws?