Charges & Financial Obligations · Restriction or exception
Fan Content must be non-commercial except ad-supported web videos
Fan Content must have no commercial (monetary) objective. As an exception, individual fans are permitted to monetize web videos (such as YouTube) with advertisements, so long as those videos otherwise meet the requirements of this Policy.
Details
- Condition
- no commercial (monetary) objective
- Exception
- individual fans may monetize web videos with advertisements if the videos otherwise meet this Policy
Supporting quotations
1.4 Fan Content must have no commercial (i.e., monetary) objective. As an exception to this, individual fans are permitted to monetize web videos (such as YouTube) with advertisements, so long as those videos otherwise meet the requirements of this Policy.
Qualifications & exceptions
- The exception covers only web videos and only advertising monetization.
Not stated here
- Whether other revenue forms (donations, sponsorships, merchandise) count as a commercial objective.
Cross-references
- qualifies (model-proposed): Fan Content allowed only within this Policy — The no-commercial-objective rule and its web-video exception qualify the general permission.