The things to be careful of here are that the person who replied to you and had no issues with your video may not always be there or, worse, something could easily change and, as a corporate rule, they go after everyone using any of their footage without license... something they need to do and should already be doing in order to protect their intellectual property and trademarks.
That's a good point, thank you for bringing it up. That's something I'm going to keep in mind from now on.
As I said, however noble you believe your intentions are, copyright owners may not see it your way. Whatever you do to pursue your interests, please steer clear of others contents.
I understand that copyright holders may not see it that way. I just want everyone to know that I'm not trying to steal someone else's work and profit from it. I would love to not use copyrighted footage for a lot of reasons. However, I do think there would be a drop back if copyrighted content wasn't used. The more of someone's senses you can use, the more likely they are too, for lack of a better term, buy into something. So just having me talking about a wrestler is using the sense of hearing but if I show footage in addition to talking then they are also seeing, so two senses are being used. This makes it more likely for someone to buy or get excited for the wrestler.
Video game companies regularly enlist youtubers to review their games. That’s a win for them as they spend less on advertising. They will allow you to use their content in your review or game play without strikes. But for WWE if they are not keen on such arrangements, you will be in trouble. If possible reach out to WWE with your ideas and see if they can buy into them. If they don’t or if they don’t reply, just carry on knowing you risk losing both your Adsense and channel.
I think you're right, I'm going to look into contacting them. I would love to see if their interested in what I'm doing. Thanks for taking the time to talk to me and share your thoughts, I really appreciate it!
