i have been a passionate gamer in pc and ps3 myself and it has been a long time dream to start a game related site or a blog. Now the dream has come and just registered a domain. i have few questions to anybody here running a game blog or review site... 1. i plan to record video of gameplay and upload it to youtube. 2. i plan to capture one or two screenshot image of game and publish to my blog will the game publishers come after me with copyright infringement? i am really worried about these things on copyright and any advice/help is much appreciated.
There is a doctrine in U.S. copyright law known as fair use that allows you to use an excerpt from a copyright work without permission from the copyright holder for teaching, reviewing, news, criticism, etc. Using a screen shot to describe a concept you are trying to communicate is exactly what this exception to the copyright law was created for. Using a clip on YouTube would also be permissable, but trickier, as the fair use exception has a concept of balancing the amount of content used versus the value of the use for the excluded reason. Again if your use is only for the purpose of teaching or showing examples you should be OK.
well, i don't think it is illegal, i see you even make by that way some kind of advertising to that games.