D&D (2024) D&D Player's Handbook Video Redactions & Takedowns

There's a lot of YouTube videos looking at the brand new Player's Handbook right now, and some of them include the YouTuber in question flipping through the new book on screen. A couple of those video creators have been asked by WotC to redact some of the content of their videos, with one finding that their video had been taken down entirely due to copyright claims from the company. It appears to be the folks who are flipping through the whole book on-screen who are running into this issue which, it seems, is based on piracy concerns.

Jorphdan posted on Twitter that "Despite fulfilling [WotC's] requests for the flip through video I was issues a copyright strike on my channel. Three strikes TERMINATES your channel. I don't think going over the 2024 PHB is worth losing my channel I've been working on since 2017. I'm pretty upset as none of this was said up front and when notified I did comply with their requirements. And I see other creators still have their videos up. Videos that are not unlike mine. Covering WotC is not worth losing my channel... Meanwhile please subscribe to my D&D free channel the Jocular Junction, where I'll most likely be making the majority of my TTRPG videos."

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Mike Shea, aka Sly Flourish, also posted a walkthrough of the Player's Handbook. While he didn't receive a copyright takedown action, after an email from WotC he has blurred out all the page images. "Note, I blurred out pictures of the book after Hasbro sent me an email saying they worried people would take screenshots of the book and build their own. Yes, it's complete b******t, but we must all do our part to ensure four billion dollar companies maximize shareholder value."

Popular YouTuber DnD Shorts had a video entitled 100% Walkthrough of the New Player's Handbook in D&D. That video is no longer available. However, his full spoilers review is still online.

 

[KYRON45]

Ergo, I will not be buying my hobby gaming supplies from multi billion dollar corporations.
I will be buying stuff "from gamers, for gamers."
Troll Lord Games, Arcane Library, EN Publishing, Goodman Games, Paizo, Free League, Chaosium, Cubicle 7, etc.

Kudos to you then!!

 

[Minigiant]

Before the panic went too far, wisdom seems to have prevailed.

Heh, regarding who the panickers were. The hostility against the OGL is reported to be from the top down. Probably the Pinkerton incident was too. It is easy for me to believe a top down decision caused the roughhandling of influencers as well. Perhaps Cocks personally initiated it, and in any case, the buck stops with him.

The Pinkerton situation if somebody using their personal connections without telling other people so that those other people would tell them "hey that's a bad idea."

The OGL Scandal was the same but from the top top.

This sounds like the same.

Typical Corp/Gov one hand not talking to another.

 

[Corinnguard]

he said they got nothing whatsoever…

Thanks for the correction. I forgot that only those who had gotten the PDF back in May were given restrictions

good, it was overblown anyway

Agreed.

 

[Mistwell]

not according to SlyFlourish, he certainly showed way less than that

Right, which is why I just said I was asking him what he posted that got tagged as his was the only one I had not watched.

 

[Mistwell]

At least Alphastream, didn’t we have Jorphan in this thread as well, or are they your 75%+?

Jorphan and DnDShorts both had more than 75% of the pages of the book. This is the first I've heard of Alphastream. No idea who that is or what they posted.

 

[mamba]

It was 5 days ago.

they did not decide 5 days ago to make preview copies available to Youtubers. The guidelines should have been sent along with the books, anything after the fact is already a failure

 

[mamba]

Jorphan and DnDShorts both had more than 75% of the pages of the book. This is the first I've heard of Alphastream. No idea who that is or what they posted.

you find the channel on YT, it is Teos Abadia. Blurred by now, originally similar to Sly’s video

 

[mellored]

they did not decide 5 days ago to make preview copies available to Youtubers. The guidelines should have been sent along with the books, anything after the fact is already a failure

Again. It's common law to not have a video where you flip though pages of a book.

A reminder would of been nice of course. But not WotC's responsible.

 

[Eric V]

Again. It's common law to not have a video where you flip though pages of a book.

A reminder would of been nice of course. But not WotC's responsible.

Did you read what they sent to @SlyFlourish ?

 

[Corinnguard]

It was 5 days ago.

@mamba was referring to the NDA that some of content creators had to sign for back in May before they could receive their PDF copies of the 2024 PHB. The existence of an NDA shows that WoTC did some preparing for the debut of the 2024 PHB on August 1st. Did they do enough to prepare for the stuff that came afterwards? It doesn't appear so from what we have been hearing and reading about so far.