I get that but is the Japanese government going to lock them up for streaming stuff from a company that actively says it's good to stream their games? I can understand having to ask Jap devs but having to ask western ones doesn't make much sense.
What makes it even more murky is when you take into account that Cover is officially and physically located in Japan, which is one of the reasons why you see their foreign talent also held up by the same rules. Essentially, Cover has to operate by those specific Japanese laws, so any company can issue litigation against them with those bounds. This also includes American game and software developers. A streamer and company in the U.S. is protected by U.S. law and norms from American and Japanese litigation. Japanese companies don't have that protection at all. . . so that is why you can see U.S. game developers screwing them over without a tradition of doing so on the homefront. . . it is because they can.
It's a blanket rule to prevent a repeat of an earlier incident that required Mio to go on hiatus for three months. Until recently, Cover let the talent play whatever games they wanted from what I can tell but after that incident, this new rule was instituted. It also prevents antis from going on a tirade about the talent not having permissions, which is a thing for some reason.
Have any western companies actually caused a problem for them? I thought the main antagonists were largely Japanese-based.
Copyright violation is generally prosecuted as a tort, not a crime.
The issue is the copyright strikes on their channels. Those strikes stay on your channel's record and you only get a certain number of strikes on your channel before YouTube deletes it for it.
Honestly, I don't think so. However, it exists as a possibility. It also explains why the EN and ID talents follow those same rules when they are not located in Japan. The mother company would be the one at fault as the agency. So those are just more reasons why Cover is cautious about these kinds of things.
Isn't the JP boys scare shitless of Mori' "Yeah I shoot gun before" and "I pepper-sprayed myself" Calliope? She'll be fine. Plus, coming to the unfriendly country alone as a teen and not only survive but thrive in it, I'm sure she know how to deal with this type.
Cover might want and be interested in that sort of thing, but the question is if Ms. “I always have interest accruing on my card and never pay it off fully to build credit” Watson and “1, 2, 5?” “5x5=35” shark are capable of parsing the paperwork for visas and passports. And whether or not they can claim Vtubing as a successful career in the eyes of the United States government to obtain said visas and passports. I’m not too well versed in geopolitics and ongoing international travel restrictions due to the bat flu, but imagine those must also factor in whether or not the ENs can get/continue doing 3D in the Cover officex
Weren’t Subaru’s vids the only ones that got nuked instead of permanently privated? In practice, its the same thing, but I still want to have it out there that theoretically all but a few videos could still be unprivated someday (similar to Sora’s Instant Heaven cover, which is still stuck in limbo on her channel despite Pekora’s Discommunication Alien being back up, when both of the base songs are by the same label/musicians.)
Permissions are fucking weird, and if Gura’s Muse Dashes are anything to go by, ultimately it’s the publisher that has full say on whether or not someone can stream their game. It’s just that western publishers know better than to try and kill the source of free advertisement for their games by disrupting the status quo of streaming (is it transformative enough for seperate monitization?) and/or they learned their lesson from Nintendo getting shit on by the general public for their attempts at trying to prevent content from leaking onto Youtube in the early 2010s by copyright claiming left and right.
It’s more that the “wronged” party can (and almost did, in the case of Capcom and Mio) choose to nuke someone’s channel if they or their parent company is using the wrong kind of permissions (Capcom’s at least chosen to extend an olive branch, what with Mio getting merch advertised/made by them). So, to compensate for the fuckup that was the permissions arc, Cover is now extremely paranoid in getting express permission companywide set in stone before their talents stream new games.
That 1 million view count might be a botched translation from your browser, sadly.
I have no bloody clue who Poppy is; I meant in regards to vtubers doing dark shit.
god fucking damnit my browser act dumb
So because they're getting swamped with fake reports, they don't want Youtube needing to actually act on any of them...
It seems to be that the fight isn't worth it at this point. It really is to protect talent in this case. Youtube 'acting' on it is a crapshoot, and the speed of that action is also painstaking. The loss in revenues to the company, and the talent is probably not worth taking a stand until they grow larger or receive a stake from a larger, more important backer.
