Poll: Vid Permissions

[thefourthvine]

Recently, I have been doing some codeine-enhanced pondering of vids - specifically, linking to them or recommending them, and how we do that, and how we get permission to do that. (This was inspired by a discussion with someone, but I won't be mentioning her name unless she indicates that she wants me to.) Because in media fandom, my understanding is that fannish etiquette requires you to ask permission before you link to or recommend a vid. But I could be wrong. I have yet to get my hands on miss_manners161's Guide to Fannish Etiquette. That thing is so damned hard to find.

So, in the absence of a definitive ruling, I thought I'd ask vidders.

There aren't, however, a lot of vidders reading this LJ, I don't think. And I'd like to get responses from as wide a cross-section of the vid-making community as possible. So, if you are a vidder (or, as AMV people put it, editor) - or if you aren't, but a lot of vidders read your LJ, or if you have the password to the Secret Clubhouse where all the cool vidkids hang out - could you please link to or pimp this? Great would be my joy and appreciation.

Obviously, only those with LJ accounts can take this poll, but anyone can comment anonymously. (Or, heck, email me if you like - thefourthvine at livejournal dot com will find me.)

And, just to repeat: this poll is for those who have vidded only. There will be a poll for non-vidders, though, coming soon.

[Poll #796561]

Comments

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

If the announcement is public, then I do not see why one should not link to it unless the vidder asks otherwise (whether to link to their site, or not to link, or whatever), in which case, do what the vidder says.

This is a very succinct (certainly much more succinct than I could ever be) summary of precisely what I've learned from this poll.

It's an amazing revelation to me. Everything I was told was totally wrong is turning out to be, in fact, not wrong at all.

I don't mind getting queries, because then I know that someone is looking at the vid.

A lot of people have said that they track back URL referrals for the sort of secondhand feedback - like, to see if people are discussing the vid over at the referring URL. From this, I conclude that vidders mostly don't know if their vids are watched or discussed. And so, on the one hand, permissions would fix this - but, on the other, permissions will also reduce the total quantity of watching and discussion. Seems like most vidders would rather have the discussion without the permission request than not have the discussion at all.