Let's Play Permissions for Open Source Games With Free Art

Let's Play Permissions for Open Source Games With Free Art
Let's Play  (LP) is an uprising form of previewing and experiencing video games. While a review summarizes the experience, a LP allows to look a player over their shoulder and indirectly experience the game from one perspective in its entirety - if both Let's Player and viewer have the endurance. LPs have many styles: non-commented, informational, humorous... And their production quality varies too, be it video, audio or presentation. Example of a Let's Play video in its natural environment Some creators of LPs ("LPers") earn money using YouTube's monetization features. When they do, YouTube's semi-automatic moderation process starts paying more attention to the videos' compliance with copyright. Sometimes, LPers will contact game developers to receive permission to create LPs. To many creators of games, LPs are a welcome form of promotion and they will always say yes. Clint Bellanger of FLARE released a Let's Play policy , which elegantly covers both th…