Quote Originally Posted by poiu View Post
Yeah, use my stuff however you'd like! I think I've said this before, but I consider all my stories to be under a CC-BY license, so you're free to repost them, edit them, use them for inspiration -- hell, sell them if you want :P

Drei: sounds awesome! I've always wanted to see a lioness do some busting. Look forward to it!
[WARNING: OFF TOPIC RANT]

Selling them would be a big stretch. I'm a bad salesman anyway. If I were to make any money off of my work ever, it would be through minimal advertising and donations. I can see how some people make money with it and have no problem, but it wouldn't be for me. I wouldn't want to feel like someone paid their hard earned money for something that they wouldn't like. I would like all of my work available to he who can find it. And if someone doesn't like it, they can move on without a feeling like they wasted money or something... This is why I try to stream music online before I pay for it. I absolutely won't buy music from WMG because of the youtube thing. WMG has decided that instead of taking advantage of YouTube for publicity like Universal has successfully done, they would go insane removing every bit of their music from YouTube. It's ruined countless videos that use WMG audio, mainly because of a grudge they hold against Google.

The reason I am so angry is not because I want to hear their music and don't want to pay for it... It's because they're getting in the way of the meaning of YouTube. YouTube was made so that people from anywhere in the world could put their ideas on film and share them with the world. Normal people can't afford to hire a composer or pay a music corporation for their clips. And since the videos made by these creative people don't make much money at all versus their hollywood counterparts, I don't see the harm. When people are given an opportunity to utilize their creative side, it shouldn't be ruined by a major corporation that is concerned about money.

Example: Star Wars Cops (I'm not sure if this was made for profit or not, or by whom, but it shows what I'm talking about) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zYOw...eature=related
Blocked by WMG for the 15 seconds of the song "Bad Boys" from the intro.

Since it's worth watching, here's a link to a working video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...1160052590481#

Here's a comment that I enjoyed reading:
"I have to completely back [WMG] up. i mean if i had a product, and someone was willing to give me free advertising, i would totally slap them in the face. if i wanted to advertise i would spend millions for a fifteen second clip during the super bowl like everyone of my other ceo friends."