Machinima

[anonymous_user_8844908e]

I suffer from a disease called stupid-ia, which I have been suffering all my life, so this question will be trivial to the pros on this site.

I was interested in Machinima for fun, which I thought were movies or shorts using real-time software like Unreal. I went to a site called Machinima, but all they seemed to have are gaming news, movie trailers, and nerd lifestyle sort of videos. So now I am confused. What exactly is Machinima?

I love Batman. Lets say I wanted to a 5 minute short featuring Batman (which I probably will never be talented enough to do), using Unreal and put it on Youtube for reaction (no income or exchange of money in any way), could I still get sued? I ask because I do see people using licensed property.

Thanks,

[jCoder]

Wikipedia says:Machinima is the use of real-time computer graphics engines to create a cinematic production. You can find some links at the bottom of that page that might help you.

I love Batman. Lets say I wanted to a 5 minute short featuring Batman (which I probably will never be talented enough to do), using Unreal and put it on Youtube for reaction (no income or exchange of money in any way), could I still get sued? I ask because I do see people using licensed property.

It depends on the IP owner. There are a number ways they could react, from asking youtube to take the video down, up to suing the creator. The fact that other people do it doesn’t make it legal or right, it just means that the IP owner isn’t aware of it or hasn’t chosen to exercise their legal rights. Owners of popular properties like Batman are very concerned with how their property is portrayed and want full control over it.

[anonymous_user_8844908e]

Good point.

[anonymous_user_c8d81f33]

@ST64;103757

I suffer from a disease called stupid-ia, which I have been suffering all my life, so this question will be trivial to the pros on this site.

I was interested in Machinima for fun, which I thought were movies or shorts using real-time software like Unreal. I went to a site called Machinima, but all they seemed to have are gaming news, movie trailers, and nerd lifestyle sort of videos. So now I am confused. What exactly is Machinima?

I love Batman. Lets say I wanted to a 5 minute short featuring Batman (which I probably will never be talented enough to do), using Unreal and put it on Youtube for reaction (no income or exchange of money in any way), could I still get sued? I ask because I do see people using licensed property.

Thanks,

Don’t worry sir, I too suffer from same disease! Stupid loves company LOL

[anonymous_user_d3632df8]

It would depend on how you were to do the Machinima from the sounds of it you plan to take the assets from somewhere else and then animate them yourself in unreal that would be a breach of copy right and few other issues.

If you were to use their game engine and use tools in the game itself to do it then you could claim it’s under fair use.

As an example what roosterteeth did with early red vs blue they could do under fair use, what they have done after season 5 with their own rendered animations of halo characters would be a breach but they have agreed licenses with bungie and microsoft.

For the most part though you should be able to get away with either unless you were doing it for profit, your other option could be to do a rough idea of what you want without using their license then contact them and approach them with the concept they may grant permission to do so.