If I wanted to at some point in the future make some short animatic video about my OCs to sad pop music, could I share it here on Newgrounds? Because I know you can on Youtube, you just can't monetize it (obviously), but how does it work on Newgrounds?
"Game developer" I describe myself after creating a simple menu in GameMaker using tutorials.
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@KontraVersus You can always try to look at the licensing of the song if they present such information.
https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/cclicenses/ Has some knowledge it seems, but I have no idea how it works exactly so I can't really help in understanding any of the specific licenses.
https://freesound.org/ This website is cool as it has songs you can use, although some have instructions on how to use them, so you have to look out for that.
@KontraVersus In a nutshell: 'Fair use' has to be _really_ good in order for it to hold up in court.
As in "I worked 9 months on this and it has 24 hand-drawn frames per second and backgrounds".
Otherwise you'll just pour endless hours into syncing up an animation to a song just so 5-ish people can be entertained while earning another whistle point.
I have some _really_ cool "lost media" animations on my harddrive where I thought "Well, I hope they have other places where they upload this as well or they just wasted 2 to 80+ hours of their life. Just because they did not invest 5 minutes reading the rules..."
There might be a cover version that's far enough removed from the song to be usable...
Or you hire a legally savvy music producer on NG to make "a cover that doesn't break copyright". If you've made friends with audio Portal artists, one of them might give you discount or trade with you for cover art.
Cushee-Foofee
Just because you get away with doing something on Youtube doesn't mean it's legal, just that no one wants to bother going through the legal process if it's not something too big or serious.
KontraVersus
I dunno how that works, hence the question. Thought that it might come under fair use if it's just an artistic non commercial project