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Posted by Ryan on Jan 19, 2011, 12:20am

So. Youtube just sent me this message. Apparently Blizzard is not happy. They threw the copyright hammer at me. I don't know what to think right now.

ATTENTION
We have received copyright complaint(s) regarding material you posted, as follows:

from Activision Games Inc about World of Starcraft Pre-Alpha Trailer - CreationArtist25
Video ID: RU1dSXU_Bk0
from Activision Games Inc about World of Starcraft Character Selection Screen - CreationArtist25
Video ID: 37dp_5E5NvQ
from Activision Games Inc about Starcraft 2 ATB Battle System MOD - 'POWER OVERWHELMING' - CreationArtist25
Video ID: BTl7YWYFnP8
Please note: Repeat incidents of copyright infringement will result in the deletion of your account and all videos you have uploaded. Please delete any videos for which you do not own the necessary rights, and refrain from uploading infringing videos.

If you are unsure what this means, it is very important that you visit our Copyright Tips guide.

If one of your postings has been misidentified as infringing, you may submit a counter-notification. Information about this process is in our Help Center.

Please note that under Section 512(f) of the Copyright Act, any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material was disabled due to mistake or misidentification may be liable for damages.

For your reference, a copy of this message has been sent to you via email, and can also be located in your Account Warnings page.

Posted by xnobody on Jan 19, 2011, 2:20am

Wish I could have seen the video to make more concrete comments.

Can you get a copy of the actual complaint form that Activision/Blizzard filed with YouTube?
From the only screenshot I can see on the web it doesn't look like it would infringe on much if anything

Seriously you search "Starcraft 2" on you-tube and you get things like
-Spore creation of SC2 units and characters
-SC2 cinematics
-SC2 game replays

YouTube Search: Starcraft 2 mod
- Mod to make SC2 play like Final Fanatsy
- Project vector to make SC2 like a FPS
- Metal Slug remade in SC2.. wow an impressive side scroller

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Potential "World of Starcraft" infringements?

World of Starcraft - Blizzard's April Fools Joke in 2006
http://www.gamespot.com/pages/profile/sh....ebirdts&print=1

Reports of an SC MMO... that's never been released of further substantiated?
http://www.videogamer.com/features/article/14-12-2007-219.html

Another site with same name
http://worldofstarcraft.org/ - suit came from activision so I dunno..

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On the conspiracy side....

maybe you hit something of a nerve in the Blizzard factory of future products/ products boxed in some corner that will never see the light of day

like a SC MMO or something
"What's this... a free fans-made SC-MMO... dear god... now we can't sell XXXX product that we could make billions on... SHUT THEM DOWN NOW!!!"

$%&@#*R@&@ Blizzard & Activision!!!

Posted by Mooninaut on Jan 19, 2011, 3:31am

Blizzard actually gives explicit permission to use their games in non-commercial videos, you should reply to YouTube with a link to http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/legal/videopolicy.html which says in part "As a community content creator, you are permitted to create video productions using Blizzard's Content, and to distribute them freely on your website, or on other websites where viewers can freely view your Production."

Posted by Ryan on Jan 19, 2011, 3:56am

That's what I thought... thankyou for this link.

Posted by andz on Jan 19, 2011, 6:03am

I think the reason why is because your using "World of Starcraft" name.. you should change the name to something else.. like "Universe of Starcraft" or something else, and indicate properly that this is a free mod from starcraft II..

Posted by Joshua on Jan 19, 2011, 7:35am

Some obscure reference to the Starcraft (2) story, IE, the rise of the Zerg, could work.

Posted by Dobrev on Jan 19, 2011, 8:07am

You should contact Blizzard's community team. They probably have nothing to do with the ban and can even help you with the issue.

Good luck with the project!

Posted by konner on Jan 19, 2011, 10:08am

Sorry, for my first post but.

Wouldn't it be "Activision Blizzard Inc." if they filed for Copyright? They haven't been Activision Games in a very long time, since the merge with Blizzard Entertainment. Or if it was Blizzard themselves angry about it it would have been from "Blizzard Entertainment" because that's what was claimed when the Fall of the lich king video was leaked out..

tbh it looks like you were hit by fake copyright flaggers..

Posted by smi1ey on Jan 19, 2011, 12:43pm

GamePolitics.com made a post stating you received a cease and desist letter. *sigh* gotta love the internets. I corrected them in a comment, but hopefully we get clarification from Blizzard soon.

Posted by Ryan on Jan 19, 2011, 12:47pm

Thanks Smiley.

Posted by smi1ey on Jan 19, 2011, 1:38pm

No prob. They emailed me and it's corrected now. I'll let them know what Blizzard says in response to this so they can report on it.

Posted by Andy on Jan 21, 2011, 9:20am

Hmm, looks like it's from Activision rather than Blizzard Entertainment. Perhaps someone from the Activision side of things went ahead and had it pulled, rather than check up on Blizzard's community policies.

Activision does technically still exist as separate entity to Blizzard, with the parent company being Activision Blizzard or at a higher level, Vivendi SA.

If Blizzard was unhappy with it I would have expected to see Blizzard Entertainment or Activision Blizzard there, rather than Activision Inc.

Intriguing.

Posted by davidline on Jan 21, 2011, 12:27pm

If it is Activision making the decisions for Blizzard, I'd say take the risk.

I was never happy myself with Activision being part of Blizzard anyhow.

Blizzard makes the final decision and since they are letting you slide right now, Activision is almost like the protective secretary that should just shut his mouth shut when it knows it too.

Posted by guest123 on Jan 21, 2011, 3:11pm

Ryan, you should be glad that i had warned you earlier... or else things could had snowballed

Posted by dm613 on May 19, 2011, 8:40pm

After I finally got XBL gold (bought a 12 month subscription card for 40€), me and my friends were playing BC in a party. This guy came to our squad and decided for some reason to get under stairs and start idling there, so we couldn't squad spawn on him. Me and one of my friends were special ops, so we chose to punish him with tracker guns (or whatever those are)...

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