I like this sort of approach so much more. Yes, by all means, protect your trademarks. But you can do so without stepping all over your fans. SEGA, Bungie, Activision, Microsoft and Ubisoft are all pretty awesomely open to fans making various renditions of their work, including monetized videos. Look at the guys who…

Sonic has some of the weirdest fucking fans, but it also has some of the most productive. There are few game series which has as many great fan-works as Sonic, and I think that’s at least partially due to Sega’s attitude toward them. Unlike Nintendo, they really seem to appreciate derivative works. They even hired…

The issue with Nintendo is they just don’t get it. They still have the business mentality they had in the 80's and 90's and have not adapted very well. For every indie fan game they DMCA and for every Youtube let’s play they strip monetization from they fall behind another step from every other company that has…

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