Sharing game screenshots and videos is 100% legal?

    I'm thinking about sharing my collection of screenshots and videos from lots of games I've finished but I'm not 100% sure is it fine for developers? You know, there might be an idea in the marketing dept. that I'm sharing things I shouldn't or something?


    What do you think? I'd like to tag all the pictures and videos (currently 15 547 files, 25GB's) on LD.org so if you'll type "chair" or "water drips fx" in the search box you'll get all the content that is tagged with these words. Might be useful to see how, let's say, rocks were made in Skyrim.

    I've never heard of this ever being any kind of legal issue. I'd imagine that if it were tested in court, they'd have to be considered either application screenshots (ie: like taking a screenshot of Microsoft Word) or media excerpts (ie: like taking a still from a movie). I think in both cases it'd be considered fair use, because the purpose wouldn't be commercial and the excerpt of the total work is so small.

    I am almost 100% sure it's not illegal, specially since you wont be making any money off of that. Publishers and developers really don't care, in fact it's even a good thing cos it's free publicity.


    (Unless Nintendo games, afaik Nintendo specifically banned and introduced copyright laws for media sharing stuff like that, so if you have any Nintendo games, you might get contacted by their legal dept to bring the media down)


    PS. Great idea btw, I hope it comes to fruition.

    Yep, I found 3 free online galleries, each with tagging option and will test them soon. It's: ResourceSpace, piwigo and cpg. RS looks most promising right now.


    Here's the list of games that are mostly 100% screenshoted, some of the titles are made by my friends from work, I hope to see more in the collection

    Aliens_Colonial_Marines

    Batman_Arkham_City

    Battlefield_Bad_Company_2

    Bioshock_Infinite

    Black_Mesa

    Castle_Crashers

    Chivarity

    COD_BO

    COD_BO2

    COD_MW3

    Crysis_3

    Dark_Messiah_of_Might_and_Magic

    Deadlight

    Dear_Esther

    Deus_Ex_HR

    Dishonored

    Fallout_3

    Hard_Reset

    Left_4_Dead_2

    Legend_of_Grimrock

    Mafia_2

    Medal_of_Honor

    Medal_of_Honor_Warfighter

    Metro_LL

    Rage

    Singularity

    Skyrim

    Wolfenstein_2


    Example:

    [Blocked Image: http://i.imgur.com/PlrxBE5.jpg]

    Quote from FMPONE

    I would also submit them to Dead End Thrills, it's a great site that's worth supporting in addition to your own projects


    different purposes tho.

    How hard would it be to make the thumbnails bigger? I really like medim to large thumbnails, even if it means having to scroll through long pages.
    Also, atm you have 15 pics per page, could you increase that to like 50 or whatever? I hate having to keep clicking "next page" "next page" "next page" "next page" on and on, I prefer to load everything at once even if it means slightly bigger loading times.

    Thumbs are now bigger but still not massive. Maybe I'll add an option to show bigger thumbnail after hoovering if it's still to small? I've set photos per page to 50. It would be awesome to have infinite scrolling option but I guess Piwigo doesn't support that...

    Ah, much much better! My only nit-pick, and you already mentioned this, when you open a screenshot you actually only open a "medium" size version of that screenshot, to actually access the screenshot you need to click a hiden button called "Download this file" at the top. I noticed you can set the screenshots to XXL Huge, and it remembers that option but the image clips with the page.


    Have you thought about just using Flickr? Pro accounts allow you terabytes of data.

    I've sent some questions to Piwigo devs, maybe there will be a solution for my answers


    I've added 3 titles without videos. Right now I see that there will be problem with videos, will fix that later.


    Now it's time to tag Each user (admin/guest) can tag the picture. Right now users can pick only existing tags (to reduce tags like "swag" or "ass") - there's a pencil icon right next to "Tags" section. Click it and write


    OK:

    http://level-design.org/?p=1773

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