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Riot Games was accused by the largest Youtube channel of the LoL community for ‘intellectual property infringement’ because it was … lazy

Skin Spotlight is the largest to say about the content of ingame League of Legends, this is even the only means that almost helps gamers admire the costumes, hero updates or image upgrades early. It can be said that the Skin Spotlight channel gradually becomes an indispensable part of the LoL community when the equipment preview feature Riot Games completely ignored.

The Skin Spotlight channel provides gamers with the fastest and most complete view of new League of Legends skins

Both sides, Skin Spotlight and Riot Games, though no one has said it yet both sides understand this is a symbiotic relationship. Riot is the creator of the material for the YouTube channel to research and produce content, whereas the details of Skin Spotlight products to help new champions, remakes or new costumes come closer to League of Legends players.

If everything goes on normally, both will be happy, but not knowing because of being lazy or not able to make clips on Ornn by themselves, Riot Games arbitrarily cut the necessary video and merged into the clip to introduce Volibear Volibear. his latest. It is worth mentioning that Riot uses the Skin Spotlight private label without permission, a form of “intellectual property infringement”. Of course, the Skin Spotlight channel is not very happy with this.

Riot Games was accused by the largest Youtube channel of the LoL community for intellectual property infringement because it was lazy | Esports

Riot uses the trademark (the letter S on the map) of Skin Spotlight in the Volibear recap video without permission from the channel owner.

Riot Games was accused by the largest Youtube channel of the LoL community for intellectual property infringement because it was lazy | Esports

The video of Ornn the Thunder has been uploaded to YouTube by Skin Spotlight channel since 2017

Riot Games was accused by the largest Youtube channel of the LoL community for intellectual property infringement because it was lazy | Esports

Dumbs (a YouTube channel specializing in making funny videos about League of Legends) thinks that some employees seem too lazy to use that small clip in only 2-3 minutes to practice.

Riot Games was accused by the largest Youtube channel of the LoL community for intellectual property infringement because it was lazy | Esports

The Skin Spotlight channel explains the problem and the severity of this incident: “The problem here is that people think that my YouTube channel is owned and operated by Riot when they use products from the Spotlight Skin Spot in their official videos. spread that way, moreover they don’t own the S logo, it’s my own brand. “

Riot Games was accused by the largest Youtube channel of the LoL community for intellectual property infringement because it was lazy | Esports

Skin Spotlight Channel: “Riot apologized for the incident and promised it would not happen again. No matter what people think, there is a big problem around the misinformation about the relationship between my channel and Riot Games. Some people think it is owned by Riot, others think I have pre-access to the PBE server. “

Riot Games was accused by the largest Youtube channel of the LoL community for intellectual property infringement because it was lazy | Esports

Say no more, the Skin Spotlights channel is helping Riot with the introduction of costumes as well as the interaction between the generals and somewhat introduce the story of League of Legends.

According to the Skin Spotlight channel, this is not the first time Riot Games has arbitrarily used the channel’s content and brand in the official video, so this time the channel reacted violently to this situation. Fortunately, Riot also sent this Youtube channel an apology via e-mail along with a friendship that did not use the channel’s content and trademark in his subsequent videos.

Riot Games was accused by the largest Youtube channel of the LoL community for intellectual property infringement because it was lazy | Esports

Riot Games quickly apologized to Skin Spotlight after the incident

Basically, the Skin Spotlights channel is a product from the community and is extremely well received, if you ignore and make this channel not making content about LoL anymore, surely Riot Games will face the wave. Great objections from gamers. This is paramount in game development, especially MOBA games and has a large community like League of Legends.

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