Material Usage License Update - Monetization now allowed!

Greetings,

We have listened to all of your feedback and are extremely happy to announce that as of today, we have put a new FFXIV Material Usage License into effect, which will allow monetization through partner programs that exist with Twitch.tv, YouTube, and other similar sites.

However, as many of you have already noticed there is a discrepancy in the actual text of the updated license, which is creating a bit of confusion. Please know that this is only a typo and we are working on having this text corrected.

I apologize for the confusion and hopefully this clarifies what is allowed.

Thanks Camate, I wish FFXIV much success for years to come.

Thank you!

This is the kind of communication we should be seeing. Thanks for taking the time.

You guys are amazing. Appreciate all the hard work!

Thanks for the heads-up, much appreciated! :D And thank you for listening! Here's to a successful game for years to come!

Great news! Looking forward to watching a lot of user generated content about FF XIV: ARR :)

You guys made the best call u could have when it came to this, great job listening to players needs and fast responses are always very much appreciated.

Awesome news! This doesn't effect me but glad others can continue to do what they do to make their living.

Somebody mail tb or jesse about this! :D

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Originally Posted by Devilair

Somebody mail tb or jesse about this! :D

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They already know ^^


Awsomely done SE :)

I love you! Thank you very very much!

Great news! Thanks SE.

I think you guys really made the right call on thi sone, good job. Thisll oincrease the amount of FFXIV videos by a lot and it shows you listen to feedback. Thanks <3

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Originally Posted by Camate

However, as many of you have already noticed there is a discrepancy in the actual text of the updated license, which is creating a bit of confusion. Please know that this is only a typo and we are working on having this text corrected.

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"Working on" having it corrected? Send me the FTP info for the site and I could fix it for you in less than a minute for free. Since when is this something that requires "work"? Also, these rules are legally unenforceable as long as a video sticks to the fair use rules. They're ridiculously restrictive and I'm strongly considering simply ignoring them all except for the part about the trademark notice. Will you guys be petty enough to ban my game account when the DMCA takedown is inevitably overturned? I'm 100% certain the videos I'm planning to make are legally untouchable, but that doesn't mean you guys won't decide to be childish and revenge-ban me. What's your policy regarding this?

some people just can't be happy

whoever thought that prohibiting monetization through youtube etc was a good idea needs to get fired

Now my adblocker gets to block ads on FFXIV videos too.

SE is quick to reply when they fear anyone but them is making money. I've yet to see a dev giving regular updates about servers or any of the other literally broken matters of this game.

Good job I guess though, we can see people stream 1017.

Sad to see SE cave to whining people who want to make money off of your IP without compensating you. but then again, millenials think everything but their own work should be free.

While I don't agree with the change of policy, if it gives the masses one less thing to cry about, then cool. Wunderbar.

Hey all,

Just as a follow up, the conflicting text has been removed from the Material Usage License agreement! :)

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

Hey all,

Just as a follow up, the conflicting text has been removed from the Material Usage License agreement! :)

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Great news SE, my hat goes off to you

Cant use music in videos?

So I got a question, I dont make videos very often, but if one of my friends has a hard time doing a certain part of the game or something ill shoot me doing it and show it to him. If i am listening to pandora in the background or something and have the FFXIV sound off with pandora on that isn't allowed?

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Originally Posted by Norack

Cant use music in videos?

So I got a question, I dont make videos very often, but if one of my friends has a hard time doing a certain part of the game or something ill shoot me doing it and show it to him. If i am listening to pandora in the background or something and have the FFXIV sound off with pandora on that isn't allowed?

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Technically making a video with pandora running in the background would be against ToS for both pandora and a violation of the RIAA. However, no offense, but if you're recording this for just a friend as you state there's nothing preventing you from just sending him the video, if you're posting on youtube you're doing more than you claim anyway.

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Originally Posted by Strychnine

Technically making a video with pandora running in the background would be against ToS for both pandora and a violation of the RIAA. However, no offense, but if you're recording this for just a friend as you state there's nothing preventing you from just sending him the video, if you're posting on youtube you're doing more than you claim anyway.

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hmm, well that sucks. Guess I will just have to tell my friends to suck it up and stop sucking at the game than XD.

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Originally Posted by Norack

hmm, well that sucks. Guess I will just have to tell my friends to suck it up and stop sucking at the game than XD.

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Or you could just mute the pandora

So you cannot make "music videos" to this game, is that correct in what I am reading?

... *scratches all FFXIV:ARR content off of future video projects*

Seriously, the terms of use pretty much take away ALL creative freedom. I was ok with being unable to monetize FFXIV videos (I hate ads anyways and refuse to let YouTube use them on my channel), but being unable to use 3rd party music (even if it's fair use such as content from OverClocked ReMix), being unable to hide the copyright info at the bottom of the screen when filming "clean scenes" (it's ugly as hell, please get rid of it), forbidden from altering the scenes (special effects) etc., pretty much takes this off of my "to do" list. =\

All videos will consist of the same thing: Straight story content (spoilers who does that?) without the ability to hide key moments (because you can't change the audio), and battle gameplay (more spoilers).

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Originally Posted by Strychnine

Technically making a video with pandora running in the background would be against ToS for both pandora and a violation of the RIAA. However, no offense, but if you're recording this for just a friend as you state there's nothing preventing you from just sending him the video, if you're posting on youtube you're doing more than you claim anyway.

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When you create a video using third-party music, YouTube recognizes it, forces you to monetize your videos, and the proceeds then go to the rightsholders.

Also, the RIAA is an organization; not a regulation. You're thinking of the DMCA.

OMG I love you guys <3 . This makes me happy cause I will start uploading videos soon.

...so...not about unfair Materia usage? ...mea culpa

Pretty sure you guys all ready burned them bridges...

...When you told people who make their living off doing YouTube Reviews (of games) that they couldn't show any game content while reviewing.


I will never understand the incompetence of Marketing. "OMG! They are going to give us free advertisement; that normally would have cost us MILLIONS. QUICK! We better keep them from monetizing said review that'll generate them _maybe_ $300".

I agree the policy is too restrictive. For many years there have been many great videos. Even Vanafest entries would fall foul of the current policy.

This revision is nice, but really restricts any freedom to make raid videos a bit more exciting.

Raid videos from all other games weren't just recorded footage with a fancy intro. They were pieces of entertainment, with music selected from the real world to reflect the person being filmed, their character, even the raid instance/boss.

It seems I won't be making any videos for my company as I planned then. It'll just be down to screenshots of things. I mean really Square, we KNOW it's your game. You don't need a trademark on every little thing in my opinion.

So no FFXIV Music Videos ft Andre 3000? ... The ffxi music videos were what i liked.... it inspired game play....

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Originally Posted by WonderfulPlague

This revision is nice, but really restricts any freedom to make raid videos a bit more exciting.

Raid videos from all other games weren't just recorded footage with a fancy intro. They were pieces of entertainment, with music selected from the real world to reflect the person being filmed, their character, even the raid instance/boss.

It seems I won't be making any videos for my company as I planned then. It'll just be down to screenshots of things. I mean really Square, we KNOW it's your game. You don't need a trademark on every little thing in my opinion.

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Not being able to put your music that "represents" your identity or the identity of your company really a deal breaker? It is just a game we are recording, I do editing for film for a living and I would never touch the original score for fear of hurting the integrity of the film. Now I do understand the difference in editing a film and recording a game video, and don't get me wrong I actually watch a lot of boss runs to help strategies, but does slapping a song on a video that 9/10 times only you like worth Making videos? I mean the fun is in the editing.

The current policy was apparently written by dummies...

I've been playing on Balmung since 1.0 and since then I have gathered ideas and a huge storyline for a Machinima Series that was meant to go on and entertain people for quite a while. Now, due to the restrictions, I can't even start it off. You guys really need to change the restrictions because there's virtually no point in making any FF14 Videos if the person creating the Movie has Zero space for Creativity due to so many restrictions.

What's the problem with using 3rd party music if I actually get the permission to use it? I already have permission to a great deal of really good songs for the Series too. I've put quite some work into getting to use those songs.

Here's some advice SE: You want pretty much free marketing for your game? Then loosen those restrictions and instead put more effort into banning those Gilspammers. It's not the people that make awesome videos that'll destroy your game but those bots spamming the Shout/Yell Channel in every City each nano second.