No no, you dont pay to watch the video, but you'd notice on many videos youtube put advertising that plays before your video does, if you monetize a video youtube give you a share in the profits from that advertising.
So its kind of a reward for attracting people to youtube who see these ads. Now normally you can only monetize videos that are entirely your own content or which you own copyright for, so Trainz would normally not be allowed, but I'm wondering if it can be made OK for fans to monetize Trainz videos and not be penalized for it
As I said the main reason I'm asking is because Bohemia Interactive (BI) who make the ArmA series of games have recently allowed fans to sign a form (available on their forums) which is allows fans to monetize videos of their games, so fill in and sign the form then email it off to the addresses they provided and your good to start making a little extra cash. So now every time someone watches a video I've made covering ArmA and they see the advertising played before hand I get paid a small amount of money. We're not talking big bucks here, just small change, but still its a little extra cash. I guess most gaming companies enjoy the free advertising they get from fans posting videos of their games, but BI went one step further and gave us a reward. Now like Bohemia Interactive I'd say Auran is one of the smaller developers and I think would benefit from doing this too. There isn't a huge amount of videos out there covering Trainz when compared to more mainstream games and this type of thing would help encourage people to post more, and good quality too. Instead of just a Screenshot competition I see in the newsletter there could be a video of the month too, help to encourage and promote high quality videos that really show off how great Trainz is.
In a lot of content uploaded to the DLS, there is a licence included stating something similair like this:
Since filming the asset and then sharing that movie is basicly doing the above: Distribute in a shape, way or form, and getting revenue from it is getting a payment, the developers of the content gets to sue the persons who put it on youtube and claim their share.
In other words:
@ Engioc:
Before you start doing
that, be sure to go and check the licence of each and every item you have filmed in your movie.
Good luck fixing your movie with the removal of all those assets.
Yeah that could be an issue and I'll have to make sure I know what content I'm showing and seek permission, not use it, or stick to using built in content as much as possible. Even if I made a route of content I created entirely on my own that still doesn't get around the fact there is copyright on the game itself so I need to seek permission from Auran/N3V, which is what I'm doing here. I haven't made a single video yet, I am planning to make some regardless of the outcome here, all this will change is the ability to monetize or not. If its not allowed that's fine, its just a simple question based on what another small developer is doing, I'll happily make videos and make nothing from the advertising, and I was already planning to use as much built in content as possible because my ideas for the videos is to help people get in to building routes without the need to download huge amounts of extra content.
My simple idea is week 1 create a video showing a new route being created, just a small base board of 1 or 2, nothing too big. Week 2 you see me running a few trains around on it. Week 3 back in to editing and expand on that original route. Week 4 have a drive around on the extended version. So simply showing a new route and gradually growing that until it ends up being a long and complex route. Its not that different to the official Auran videos but mine would be at a slower pace and run over a year or more so people can really see how to create a route, start from something small and gradually build it up.
I'm a complete novice at creating routes, so as I learn others like me can learn and gradually create a route of their own. So a video from the point of view of a complete novice, who isn't really a train buff, but like games and wants to get in to Trainz.
Also just to be clear I'm not asking this question just for my own benefit, all I get is a bit of small change by monetizing videos, we're talking less than 20c per view. This can benefit all of those here who do create their own content, you too can make some money if you post a video showing your content, except you need permission from N3V. Also if you already post videos, well youtube/google are making a nice profit from your hard work, but you dont want the ability to take some of that profit for yourself??? Better in my pocket or yours than google imo.
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