No, there's two separate issues here: there's the acceptance of a few bucks in order to have text and text-to-speech ads show up in the stream. Abusing that is tacky, but not illegal. Then there's...
No, there's two separate issues here: there's the acceptance of a few bucks in order to have text and text-to-speech ads show up in the stream. Abusing that is tacky, but not illegal. Then there's the use of the video of the streamers to sell a product without a contract with them to use their image for profit. That's illegal, and also in poor taste.
Ohhh, I thought they were just marketing to the stream audience. But they're actually using a rip of the stream in other places? Yeah, that shit's bad.
Ohhh, I thought they were just marketing to the stream audience. But they're actually using a rip of the stream in other places?
Both tacky and illegal, given that burger king profited off of the streamers' likenesses without permission.
You could argue that permission is granted to anyone who pays a few bucks for their shoutout.
Absolutely tacky though.
No, there's two separate issues here: there's the acceptance of a few bucks in order to have text and text-to-speech ads show up in the stream. Abusing that is tacky, but not illegal. Then there's the use of the video of the streamers to sell a product without a contract with them to use their image for profit. That's illegal, and also in poor taste.
Ohhh, I thought they were just marketing to the stream audience. But they're actually using a rip of the stream in other places?
Yeah, that shit's bad.
With the voice distortion and the blurring of the face does it still fit using likeness?
Wasn't Burger King also one of the companies/etc that included things that triggered people's Alexas and Google Homes in an ad they ran?