I've seen a lawyer-y blog out there that forwarded the idea that the MCNs and channels could sue Youtube for copyright infringement. Basically, even if gaming videos are derivative works, the non-infringing aspects (ie. the commentary, facecam, etc) are still copyrighted to the video creator. By taking the ad revenue…

A decent number of big gaming Youtubers do mirror their videos to other sites like Blip or personal websites, in addition to doing things like streaming on Twitch. The thing is, Youtube's audience is far and ahead the largest on the Internet when it comes to video upload sites, and video producers make their money…