Quistions about monetizing DriveClub Gameplay Videos? Evolution Studios (owned by SONY)

JSHendrickson

JSHendrickson

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I plan on doing gameplay videos for DriveClub starting next month. I tried contacting SONY through the Playstation website and was only able to talk to someone on the "Support Chat". Either they didn't know what I was talking about when I was asking about monetizing youtube videos, or they just don't care and possibly encourage it. Obviously anything captured with the PS4's share button is approved for sharing on Youtube, but I was trying to be 100% clear with them, looking for a response about monetzing. Do you think I should try finding an email address to contact someone else at SONY just in case I need to produce proof to Youtube? Is an email response saved from the company considered an acceptable form of proof to Youtube when/if they ask about your permissions? If I do need to contact someone at SONY, can someone give me a good email address to contact, or do I have no choice but to call and hope they send me something in the mail saying I have permission? Thanks! Looking forward to expanding my channel with more games, but I really wish more companies were as blunt and straight-forward about monetizing as Mojang is.
 
Have you tried contacting Evolution Studios? They might be able to help.
A saved email response is enough for YouTube as long as you include your sent email as well. I had trouble contacting Guerrilla Games and I couldn't find a contact email on SCE's website, as a result a review I planned for Killzone Shadow Fall never got made. The problem is Sony has a few different subsidiaries and SCE are the 1s that own the copyrights to the first party titles normally. There's also SOE who are mainly the PC publishers I know they don't mind publishing content to YouTube. But I don't trust the share feature to dictate whether it's safe or not.
 
With the share feature, it's at least safe to share on Youtube. Developers can program certain scenes to record as a white screen instead of showing what's happening if there's a part of the game they don't want shared. Monetizing is where it gets complicated (with the PS4, at least). The next PS4 update will include the ability to upload straight from the PS4 to Youtube, but I don't think the Share Factory editor on the PS4 is good enough, so I'll still be copying it to my PC anyway.

I couldn't find any actual contact information for Evolution Studios, and then I found out that SONY bought them out which is why I was trying to ask them. Anyone else have any better luck finding their e-mail address? Thanks!
 
JSHendrickson said:
With the share feature, it's at least safe to share on Youtube. Developers can program certain scenes to record as a white screen instead of showing what's happening if there's a part of the game they don't want shared. Monetizing is where it gets complicated (with the PS4, at least). The next PS4 update will include the ability to upload straight from the PS4 to Youtube, but I don't think the Share Factory editor on the PS4 is good enough, so I'll still be copying it to my PC anyway.

I couldn't find any actual contact information for Evolution Studios, and then I found out that SONY bought them out which is why I was trying to ask them. Anyone else have any better luck finding their e-mail address? Thanks!
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It's not safe though, they can turn around at any moment and slam you with a copyright claim. YouTube has it's own policies for uploading and part of that policy is that you have permission or own the copyrights to upload the content. As for the email I've already tried asking on here xD no 1 seems to know how to contact them, in fact AlloySeven had issues you can try contacting him, just Google him, he's actually really good with copyright information in regards to gaming content on YouTube. He tried contacting them and after a 2 month follow up gave up, I'm not sure if he has tried again but I only just thought of it.
 
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