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	This creator appreciates fanworks, but hasn't promised to be cool about fans making money.

Valve Corporation, also known as Valve Software, which makes games under the name Valve, made Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Portal, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress, Left 4 Dead, and Dota. Valve is happy for you to make fan works of their games, as long as you don't make any money off of those fan works if you post them outside of YouTube or certain ones of Valve's proprietary platforms.

Statements

Steam Subscriber Agreement

Valve appreciates the community of Subscribers that creates fan art, fan fiction, and audio-visual works that reference Valve games ("Fan Art"). You may incorporate content from Valve games into your Fan Art ... but solely on a non-commercial basis. ... Commercial use of some Valve game content is permitted via features such as Steam Workshop or a Steam Subscription Marketplace.

Valve Video Policy

We encourage our users to make videos using Valve game content, such as playthrough or instruction videos or SFM movies. We are fine with publishing these videos to your website or YouTube or similar video sharing services. We're not fine with taking assets from our games (e.g. voice, music, items) and distributing those separately.

Use of our content in videos must be non-commercial. By that we mean you can't charge users to view or access your videos. You also can't sell or license your videos to others for a payment of any kind.

You are free to monetize your videos via the YouTube partner program and similar programs on other video sharing sites. Please don't ask us to write YouTube and tell them its fine with us to post a particular video using Valve content. It's not possible to respond to each such request. Point them to this page.

Of course this policy applies only to Valve content. If you include someone else's content in your video, such as music, you will have to get permission from the owner.

Statement sources

Current Steam Subscriber Agreement (as of late September 2024)—https://store.steampowered.com/subscriber_agreement

Current Valve Video Policy (as of late September 2024)—https://store.steampowered.com/video_policy

Works

Half-Life (1998)
Team Fortress Classic (1999)
Ricochet (2000)
Counter-Strike (2000)
Deathmatch Classic (2001)
Day of Defeat (2003)
Counter-Strike: Condition Zero (2004)
Counter-Strike: Source (2004)
Half-Life: Source (2004)
Half-Life 2 (2004)
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch (2004)
Day of Defeat: Source (2005)
Half-Life 2: Lost Coast (2005)
Half-Life Deathmatch: Source (2006)
Half-Life 2: Episode One (2006)
Half-Life 2: Episode Two (2007)
Portal (2007)
Team Fortress 2 (2007)
The Orange Box (2007)
Left 4 Dead (2008)
Left 4 Dead 2 (2009)
Alien Swarm (2010)
Portal 2 (2011)
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (2012)
Dota 2 (2013)
Counter-Strike Nexon: Studio (2014)
The Lab (2016)
Artifact (2018)
Dota Underlords (2020)
Half-Life: Alyx (2021)
Artifact: Foundry (2022)
Aperture Desk Job (2023)
Counter-Strike 2 (2024)

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-Valve Corporation, also known as Valve Software, which makes games under the name '''Valve''', made ''Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Portal, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress, Left 4 Dead,'' and ''Dota.'' Valve is happy for you to make fanworks of their games, as long as you don't make any money off of it if you post it outside of certain ones of their proprietary platforms.
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+Valve Corporation, also known as Valve Software, which makes games under the name '''Valve''', made ''Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Portal, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress, Left 4 Dead,'' and ''Dota.'' Valve is happy for you to make fan works of their games, as long as you don't make any money off of those fan works if you post them outside of YouTube or certain ones of Valve's proprietary platforms.
 == Statements ==
-=== 2024 ===
+=== Steam Subscriber Agreement ===
 Valve appreciates the community of Subscribers that creates fan art, fan fiction, and audio-visual works that reference Valve games ("Fan Art"). You may incorporate content from Valve games into your Fan Art ... but solely on a non-commercial basis. ... Commercial use of some Valve game content is permitted via features such as Steam Workshop or a Steam Subscription Marketplace.
+=== Valve Video Policy ===
+We encourage our users to make videos using Valve game content, such as playthrough or instruction videos or SFM movies. We are fine with publishing these videos to your website or YouTube or similar video sharing services. We're not fine with taking assets from our games (e.g. voice, music, items) and distributing those separately.
+Use of our content in videos must be non-commercial. By that we mean you can't charge users to view or access your videos. You also can't sell or license your videos to others for a payment of any kind.
+You are free to monetize your videos via the YouTube partner program and similar programs on other video sharing sites. Please don't ask us to write YouTube and tell them its fine with us to post a particular video using Valve content. It's not possible to respond to each such request. Point them to this page.
+Of course this policy applies only to Valve content. If you include someone else's content in your video, such as music, you will have to get permission from the owner.
 === Statement sources ===
 Current Steam Subscriber Agreement (as of late September 2024)—https://store.steampowered.com/subscriber_agreement
+Current Valve Video Policy (as of late September 2024)—https://store.steampowered.com/video_policy
 == Works ==