Hi folks. I have been using lmms for a few months now. I am not the best, just basic rythms and beats. Anyway, along with "stopmotion" programme, I decided to try my hand at a stopmotion animation. I did all the photo sequence and put it together in stopmotion. I then added a soundtrack which I created myself using the lmms suite. I attempted to post the finnished video on youtube. I recieved an email from them requesting the licence which stated I could make money off my video as well as the software I had used to create both the video and soundtrack. I have searched numerous gpl wikis and cannot find anything that would satisfy the hypocrites at youtube (hypocrites seeing as youtube's arcitecture is built on gpl licenced software) I need help. The video is not good but its my first attempt at producing my own work. I will post up a copy of the last email i recieved from youtube today so you may get a better understanding as to the situation I am in. If you need any further info, I will quite hapily post all the emails, as well as a link to the video i created. (be warned, the video is lame as hell, lol) Thanks in advance
heres a copy of the most recent email from youtube, hope it helps>>>>>>>>>
Hi Peter,
Your contract does not appear to give sufficient COMMERCIAL rights for your video to participate in monetization from http://lmms.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License and http://swik.net/stopmotion or Ubuntu Studio.
YouTube is not in a position to offer legal advice or to counsel you in any way. However, we have listed some elements below which we have seen in contracts to give you a sense of the types of documents we receive.
-explicit permission to use the rights holder’s content commercially (example: “I, rights holder’s name, give your name or channel’s name, the right to use my original content commercially.”)
-contact information for rights holder
-electronic signature with date (this can be as simple as the rights holder writing out full name at the bottom of the document)
Please be sure to pay attention to any limitations and/or conditions specified by the rights holder concerning your use of the content.
Once you have the appropriate contract, please email it to us as an attachment.
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Sander
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