Google patents gaming service based on YouTube

Quite an interesting patent is trying to get Google. The patent entitled “Web-Based Digital Video Games” describes “interactive features for digital video and, in particular, interactive video annotations, with which you can control where you watch the video and create interactive games.” This is followed by a detailed description of how you can create real quests with a series of videos on YouTube.

As it is easy to guess, they have patented the already existing interactive functionality of YouTube (discussion on Habré: 1 , 2 ), which is still not very actively used by users for obvious reasons: this video is quite difficult to install and there is no user-friendly interface for pasting quests.

As you know, on YouTube you can create text blocks for individual fragments of the video, and they will be displayed in the selected places of the frame. You can also create active areas of the frame, by clicking on which another video starts. That is, no one bothers now to publish video games on YouTube with prescribed scenarios and different scenarios. And if Google adds more additional functionality for this purpose, YouTube can turn into a popular gaming platform.

Judging by the text of the patent application, Google is going to add to the existing interactive functionality a compiler to build games from a variety of individual videos.
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I wonder if the YouTube license allows you to use videos posted on the site by other users for your YouTube video games?

via BNET Technology Blog