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]

I understand, though, why others don't necessarily feel the way I do, but then I'm also a newbie with that new vidder smell, having only been doing this for about 8 or 9 months.

Wow. I thought you'd been vidding a lot longer than that.

And, actually, people do seem to feel the way you do - mostly, even people who still want specific permission requests want to share their vids; they're just afraid of a) TPTB b) fan stupidity or c) outright wrong behavior. (Hotlinking, for example. It is 2006. At this point, no one anywhere should need to be told that hotlinking is wrong. And yet somehow people still do it.)

[sabaceanbabe.livejournal.com]

*nods*

Yeah, I can certainly understand that PTB thing, which is why I don't want anything I've done on the entirely too high-profile YouTube or MySpace.

Wow. I thought you'd been vidding a lot longer than that.

Heh. I think I'll just take that as a compliment to my mad skillz. :P Thank you!

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Yup. It's totally a compliment to your skills.

I think you must've started vidding just around the same time I started watching FS vids, and since your vids didn't look anything like newbie work, I assumed you'd been around for a while.