A Japanese YouTuber has actually been offered a suspended jail sentence and a fine for posting video clip game footage.
As reported by Asahi (by means of Anime Corner), 53-year-old Shinodu Yoshida was condemned of breaking Japan’s Copyright Act by dispersing unsanctioned video clips.
Yoshida was billed for posting 3 video clips on YouTube in between September 2019 and May 2022, consisting of game footage from 2011 aesthetic book Steins;Gate: My Darling’s Embrace, and modified footage from an anime motion picture.
One of the prosecution’s primary debates was that of the Steins;Gate video clips reveals the game’s finishing.
Since aesthetic stories are much much less interactive than action-focused game categories, it can be said that seeing a YouTube video clip of an aesthetic book is a comparable experience to in fact playing the game.
As such, the disagreement made by the prosecution was that author Spike Chunsoft might lose out for sale if some …