SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD (“Square Enix”) is delighted to receive requests to share videos and images from our games online.
While we would like to accommodate such requests, the images, videos, characters, music and all other media are intellectual properties of us or its licensors, therefore we have set out guidelines regarding the use of videos and other assets created using our games in order to continue protecting the lore of our games in the future.
Regarding the use of videos, live streams, and images (“Videos”) of The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales
(“Game”), please adhere to the terms of these guidelines (the “Guidelines”).
Applicable Users
Individual users living outside Japan (including those who receive payment or other rewards from a corporate body through streaming gameplay). If you are located in Japan or have obtained a Japanese version of the Game, please check the different guidelines that apply to you.
*Use under a corporate body name is not permitted
*These Guidelines may not apply to those who posts the Videos to promote the Game subject to separate agreement with Square Enix.
Game Subjects
The Game content that can be used in Videos in accordance with these Guidelines (the “Subjects”) are as follows:
Medias where you can post the Videos
(1) Those who receive payment or other rewards from a corporate body through streaming gameplay:
- Use of the Subjects on personal social network services.
- Stream the Subjects on Video streaming sites (e.g. “YouTube”, “Twitch”) that have been licensed by the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (“JASRAC”) regarding the use of music.
(2) Those who do not apply to (1):
Use of the Subjects on personal web pages and, blogs, video sharing sites, and social networking services. However, streaming videos and live streams are limited to video sharing sites (e.g. “YouTube, “Twitch”) that the use of music have been licensed by JASRAC.
*Please do not use on the sites and services below:
- Sites or services that require payment to access them.
- Sites or services that are only for users aged 18 or over
- Sites or services that are morally inappropriate
- Sites or services that are related to religious, political or antisocial activities
Usage Guidelines and Restrictions
Please do not use the Videos for commercial purposes.
However, revenue systems officially provided for content creators by video streaming sites (e.g. “YouTube”, “Twitch”) that have been licensed by JASRAC regarding the use of music can be used. If there is an inquiry from the video sharing site regarding videos and live streams that use the revenue systems, please refer them to these guidelines.
- For posts and streams, please display the legal lines below.
© SQUARE ENIX
The company names, product names and system names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
If an image or video is captured using the features in a game console, the lines above may be displayed automatically. If you are using these images or videos as-is, you do not need to display them yourself.
Furthermore:
- Do not delete or alter any legal notices included with the Subjects.
- On platforms that have limited space for text, such as X (formerly Twitter), you do not need to display the legal notices.
- If multiple images or videos are included in the same page, then legal lines can be displayed all in one place rather than individually for each image or video.
- Mark content with a “spoiler warning” for major points in the game’s story to prevent ruining the experience for people who have not played it yet.
- Posting, streaming, or publishing the following Videos or playlists listed below is forbidden. The Company may, at its sole discretion, delete applicable Videos or playlists or collect royalties through the platformer’s monetisation function. Examples of Videos that are forbidden from posting etc.
- Movie scenes (including event scenes, same hereafter) only, or mostly taken from movie scenes.
- A large number of images of movie scenes in a row, trying to show only movie scenes.
- The main purpose is to deliver the music. This includes making the Game’s music data continuously available without the normal progression of gameplay (e.g. using a static background image, keeping the playable characters still, tuning voices and sound effects to bring out the background music, repeating simple operations).
- Do not use the Subjects in combination with third party content.
- Do not use the Videos for purposes not permitted under these guidelines. For example, you cannot collect and distribute the Videos via other media —e.g., in book form— even if you do not stand to gain financially from doing so.
- Do not use the Videos to promote anything, including other products or services.
- You must comply with the applicable platform’s terms of use.
- Do not slander other players or any other person.
- Do not use the Videos for any purposes that run contrary to public order or good morals.
- Do not use the Videos for any religious / political / antisocial activities.
- You must immediately comply with any request from Square Enix to remove the Videos from any shared content, website, or service. Also, the Videos that we consider inappropriate may be deleted.
If you are posting the Videos in which another player's name is displayed, you are responsible for obtaining the player's permission before posting the Videos. If you are unable to obtain permission, please mosaic or otherwise cover the name in question.
- Please do not overly process or modify the Subjects.
- Creating content by combining the Subjects, or adding your own voiceover showcasing or commentating on the Game to the Video is permitted.
- Please be careful with revealing your Game account ID, or other players’ Game account IDs, when creating or posting content. For example, your Game account ID may be displayed when visiting the in-game purchase pages.
- Do not publish Videos or other information where other users' IDs are displayed.
Unless Square Enix expressly permits, publication and/or dissemination of any posts related to the Game that is not permitted under these Guidelines is strictly prohibited.
The above shall include, but is not limited to, the following:
- Posts published and/or disseminated before the official release date of the Game that contain any information that cannot be obtained without playing the Game (including about the game content and the gameplay footage and images).
- Posts that contain content or information that does not fall under the scope of "the Subjects" as defined in these Guidelines.
- Posts that contain content or information shared or disclosed without Square Enix’s permission, such as leaked content or information.
Square Enix reserves the right to remove, delete or take other legal action against any posts in its sole discretion.
Other
- Square Enix makes no guarantees concerning the Subjects, including that the Subjects will not infringe third party rights. Square Enix will not compensate you or any third party for any damages or injuries that arise as a result of any use of the Subjects.
- Square Enix may modify these Guidelines in its sole discretion at any time. If Videos that were posted before the guidelines have been updated do not meet the terms of the guidelines after the update, the affected Videos may be deleted.
- If you fail to follow these Guidelines when posting the Videos, you may be temporarily or permanently suspended from using the Game (as determined by Square Enix in its sole discretion).