#distributed audio

[futureofcities]

Poolhouse Poolhouse in Calgary Huge eclectic indoor stamped concrete and rectangular natural pool house photo

[biciudades]

Poolhouse Poolhouse in Calgary

Huge eclectic indoor stamped concrete and rectangular natural pool house photo

[literathemes]

Traditional Living Room Image of a mid-sized, elegant enclosed living room library with blue walls, a standard fireplace, a stone fireplace, and a hidden television.

[very-crofty]

Deck Uncovered in Minneapolis An illustration of a medium-sized, traditional backyard deck without a cover

[donnie-darko-isforever]

Formal Living Room Inspiration for a large, enclosed, transitional, formal living room remodel with gray walls, a regular fireplace, a stone fireplace, and a wall-mounted television.

[tyrannustaller]

Poolhouse Calgary Example of a huge eclectic indoor stamped concrete and rectangular natural pool house design

[gideonmedia]

Modest Proposal

I got an email from a distributor. He was asking for scripts that are three minutes long. If your script is accepted, they will then either take the audio you recorded or allow you to record at their space, then they will record an introduction, create an image and release the show.

In return, there's no offer of money. You will then share 50% of the IP of the story with the distributor. There's no mention of who owns the audio, but I'd have to assume the distributor.

This was on a larger list of people and this distributor was respectfully called out for being a predatory IP farmer, and the distributor's response to that was also respectful and curious about what was wrong with the ask, and what a better proposal might be.

(If you feel so compelled, please don't harass or seek out this distributor - I just described the email so I could answer it here.)

Intellectual Property is a really tangly thing. The person who invented the story owns it... but we're all standing on the shoulders of giants and ever since the Medicis, we've all been hoping someone would buy what we make. In the modern capitalistic world, nobody is going to buy anything that they can't sell for more - and that's the rub.

How much more? And who gets to keep it?

If a person creates something and you want to utilize its value, then you either need to allow them to sell it to other people or you have to compensate them. I know this is a very dry way to explain it, but if you want to live on the business side of things then you have to look at the chunks of entertainment as if they are "units that need to be moved".

A writer writes a script. A director crafts that script into a story that can be understood by everyone. Each actor creates a character. Every designer creates the world that the story exists within. So... who owns what?

If you are going to retain ownership of the final product, then your pay-scale should reflect a buy-out of future earnings. If you can't afford a buy-out, then you should negotiate a share of your future earnings.

But let me go back to the emailed proposal I got. The distributor felt that his company's ability to provide an introduction, a "kick-ass image" and distribution was enough to secure 50% ownership of the piece forever. Nobody on the list felt like this was equitable.

A better proposal would be to fund and produce and an entire season of a show - maybe 8-10 25-30 minute episodes - and then share the revenue from ad sales on the feed. If. distributor is willing to do that, then that's a start for a better offer.

Gideon was offered a low-end budget that didn't quite cover the cost of a season of a podcast, then 30% of the ad sales and 33% of the IP when it went to market. The offer they made included huge marquee-name actors, and it was a film company that intended to make it into a movie. After some not very-intense soul-searching, we walked away.

While we don't regret saying no, it's a pretty good deal!!! There was nothing predatory about it and they weren't IP farming, they sought us out and wanted to make *this* show, they weren't just throwing a huge bunch of ideas into the world and waiting to see what would hit.

There's nothing wrong with IP Farming from a business point-of-view. And like any business deal, you have to offer the price you can afford and see if the seller is cool with that. There's no right or wrong here. But the price being offered here isn't, in my opinion, an investment that makes a sale worth it.

[whisperofthewaves]

saw the polish version of the wicked musical today. as far as translations go, I enjoyed myself.

[jovandaljevic]

Snovi, ljubav i strast (Album)

Spotify

[dangerliesbeforeyou]

finally made my first 'album' public over on my soundcloud... recorded most of these songs quite a while ago so they don't necessarily all sound /great/ but i just wanted to have them all in one place cos i do kinda like how they fit together!

i tried uploading it to bandcamp but they're so finicky about the audio... all my songs are available over there though just not in album form lol!

[dykebeckett]

Are there actual real life people who believe doctor who is going to get cancelled????

when I made that post it was just about one or two posts I’d seen on my dash but now there’s bitches writing dissertations about the state of streaming in my notes so. apparently yes

[black-cat-aoife]

Welcome to none of this is surprising except for the vampire bit

[mintakablue]

did you get permission to make a fandub? you'll essentially be releasing the story if you post it anywhere.

i wanted to put an interest check out for it since i have been interested ever since yugo said they were okay with fandubs! i have been thinking about distribution since again, the comic is 18+ and i certainly would not be cool with minors getting access to it + of course i do not want to post the entire thing online in one place! i am still ruminating on it, but even if it's just a passion project to be shared with other people who have already purchased and read BKMN, i still think it might be a neat project!

[rich4a1]

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[luna-spacedoodles]

whoever made it so you could have beats have spatial audio on an older iphone but not be able to callibrate it or turn it off on an older iphone needs to be shot point blank