So I’ve bought a couple “lots” of yoyos that ended up coming with oldschool trick books, mostly Duncan, but another I can’t 100% place. I think it would be a fun video to go through them a bit and compare how much info is in the different books, and how different books teach the same aspects/tricks, but I don’t know how…. I guess you could say “snippy” Duncan would be over a video looking at a few pages of their old trick books, so asking if anyone happens to have any info on if that’s a risk or not.
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if you’re not making money on showing them, it doesn’t violate any copyright laws. also im sure they’d be thrilled at a nostalgic look through their old trick books. i can’t imagine them getting bent out of shape over something like that
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I don’t even have basic monitization on my channel, so zero money. lol I’d also only directly show a handful of pages. IDK, I just don’t want to spend a bunch of time on something like this and get thumped hard for it.
You’re totally good, that sort of thing falls under fair use for sure… plus even if it didn’t, pretty much no one who made those is still @ Duncan and the people there now wouldn’t care lol
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I mean if you wanted you could check if the copyright is still valid but like Spence said showing that on your YouTube is basically commentary and even if the publisher (if they used one) threw a claim at your channel it would simply prevent monetization on that video at best.
Most YoYo books where privately published which is great until you try to get any into the library and they can’t because without the dumb library system required a known publisher to add a new entry.. dumb bureaucracy
If self published the effort Duncan would have to go through to put a claim is more than anyone at that company would want to put effort into doing
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Right now on Instagram Jon Gates is reviving the Duncan Yolympics using the official Duncan material from 1979.
First round is over I think, but if you hit him up at @gatesyoyo on IG he might be taking late entries or at least have info on whether they’re going to be tools about your video.
In general trying to contact Duncan or Flambeau has got me no response at all, so if I was you I’d just go ahead with
Edit: as mentioned already, documentary and satire are exempt from copyright within the range of fair use
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Do and ask for forgiveness later as they say.
Honestly, it would fall under fair use. I think they’ve got bigger fish to fry.