That is a good point, I'll have to think about that a bit more and look up some of the terms of service. To my understanding it is totally legal for them to do it, but maybe a question is should the law be changed due to new forms of media?
Maybe a better system would be just to take a portion of the profit.
Another thing to consider is that if someone is selling DvD's, comics, etc, those can stop being sold. With the internet things aren't as simple, there can be many mirror uploads.
Perhaps the proper stance would have been to remove the videos, but maybe they thought people would respond even worse to that. So instead they went with this, the content can still exist as long as they get a cut, then people that don't want Nintendo getting money off their work could remove the videos themselves.
Now, if a person is not making money off the videos originally and then Nintendo makes money off it that is a problem. I think they may be allowed to do that as well so that is something that should probably be changed about how youtube operates.
Maybe a better system would be just to take a portion of the profit.
Another thing to consider is that if someone is selling DvD's, comics, etc, those can stop being sold. With the internet things aren't as simple, there can be many mirror uploads.
Perhaps the proper stance would have been to remove the videos, but maybe they thought people would respond even worse to that. So instead they went with this, the content can still exist as long as they get a cut, then people that don't want Nintendo getting money off their work could remove the videos themselves.
Now, if a person is not making money off the videos originally and then Nintendo makes money off it that is a problem. I think they may be allowed to do that as well so that is something that should probably be changed about how youtube operates.