This issue has cropped up and been addressed by several Youtubers lately:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE2tbCfvn4k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykaJD7BFPWE
There are a huge amount of people doing 'reaction content' on Youtube now and making money from it.
Basically the idea is that you dedicate a small part of the screen to the "thing you are reacting to" and then having a person watching that content 'react' to it. The most prominent of these ""reactors"" have hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
The question is, is this really transformative in any way? Many of the reaction content I see just puts the ENTIRETY OF THE THING (for example, a 24 minute god damned television episode of something in the corner) and then the larger part of the screen is just the dudes face reacting to the entirety of that content, no editing, no production, just basically a webcam staring at a guy watching something that isn't giving ANY money back to the original creator of the content they're reacting to.
Now, I'll admit. I like seeing people react to stuff, it's cool sometimes. That being said, the fact that so many (the vast majority) of these people are not only making money off of this content, they're basically doing the equivalent of using someone's hard work with zero effort and just copy and pasting it on the side of the window or the bottom or whatever in its entirety without editing.
How transformative, really (which is the argument for not getting your shit taken down for copyright infringement) is putting the work in its entirety up but with your face also in the shot, without editing? You're basically watching something that people worked on (whether it be a full episode of anime, or some youtube video someone made) and re-mirroring it to make money off of it by putting your face on the side of it as it plays the full length.
At least game stuff has a leg to stand on in that playthroughs of games aren't always exactly the same every time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE2tbCfvn4k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykaJD7BFPWE
There are a huge amount of people doing 'reaction content' on Youtube now and making money from it.
Basically the idea is that you dedicate a small part of the screen to the "thing you are reacting to" and then having a person watching that content 'react' to it. The most prominent of these ""reactors"" have hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
The question is, is this really transformative in any way? Many of the reaction content I see just puts the ENTIRETY OF THE THING (for example, a 24 minute god damned television episode of something in the corner) and then the larger part of the screen is just the dudes face reacting to the entirety of that content, no editing, no production, just basically a webcam staring at a guy watching something that isn't giving ANY money back to the original creator of the content they're reacting to.
Now, I'll admit. I like seeing people react to stuff, it's cool sometimes. That being said, the fact that so many (the vast majority) of these people are not only making money off of this content, they're basically doing the equivalent of using someone's hard work with zero effort and just copy and pasting it on the side of the window or the bottom or whatever in its entirety without editing.
How transformative, really (which is the argument for not getting your shit taken down for copyright infringement) is putting the work in its entirety up but with your face also in the shot, without editing? You're basically watching something that people worked on (whether it be a full episode of anime, or some youtube video someone made) and re-mirroring it to make money off of it by putting your face on the side of it as it plays the full length.
At least game stuff has a leg to stand on in that playthroughs of games aren't always exactly the same every time.
