lloyd9988 wrote:I've been wondering... How would you guys feel about getting paid to make AMVs??
ngsilver wrote:I personally don't have a problem with getting paid to make an AMV, but technically if I'm getting paid for making an AMV I would also make sure that what I am doing is completely legal. So in essence I would be getting paid to edit a video, which I do from time to time (none of which I post to this site, mostly because it doesn't involve anime,) but in the end it'd be like an AMV.
Anime companies have been known to in the past come to amv creators and pay them to make promo spots and trailers for their licensed series. As long as the source is legally obtained and the venture entirely above the table I'm cool with it.
Now if someone offered to pay me to make an amv, like I would normally do for free just like any of the ones I've posted, I'd have to (and have) decline. After all, while we tend to hark on fair use and the non-profit nature of the hobby, taking money to do something that is technically illegal (in many ways actually) would just not be right. That and I'd want to be credited for my work that I spent so much time on, not have it masquerading around as someone else's video.
In the end this is kind of along the same lines of debate as copyright as far as it goes with AMVs. We've beaten that dead horse so many times already, I don't really feel like getting into it again.


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