"I was so confident this was the direction I wanted to go," said Palmer, who left live-action filmmaking to instead work with gaming company Valve's 3D animation program Source Filmmaker. Post-production film artist Adam Palmer sold off all his film equipment to play with a video game program.
#Using source filmmaker software#
The more clearer answer that I got from you. Any other copyrighted assets would require permission from their individual owners. If you simply monetize them by adding advertisements, but do not require a person to pay to view them, then yes, you CAN use Valve's assets. Originally posted by Capt Fuzzy:If a person wishes to view your tutorial video, and the only way to do that is for them to pay you to see the video, then no, you cannot use any of Valve's assets, or ANY other copyrighted assets without the owner's permission. I just wanted to raise alert for ambiguity of their FAQ answers and for those who has at least conscience in their mind can make their conscience more firmly. I might be stupid for casting this question which seems to already have obvious answer which is "NO". As long as they can afford legal punishment that can happen in the future, then they will do whatever they want to do. This is really totally up to one's moral thing. The reason why those people are not yet caught might be beause they are not hugely popular to be spotted, and if my assumption is correct, then any of those who are NOT that popular can make money with SFM as long as they won't get caught.
#Using source filmmaker for free#
For some users who regularly post their videos for the purpose of monetization by Youtube get small amount of bucks in their pocket with complying all legal things, while other users in other websites (even for those who made porn with it) just upload it without even getting legal permission (and for porn, they cannot be accepted even tho they uploaded for free and I know it). You know there are always bright and dark side when it comes to "legal" thing. However, I never thought of getting huge amount of money from this because only few people in the world are aware of this program as long as they are not filmmaker "mania"s.
As I already mentioned above, I was thinking of uploading SFM tutorial videos on one of tutorial websites, and make some of chapters are free for view so that people can decide whether or not to continue taking my course after paying small amount of money (I was trying to make another chapters which have advanced contents not mentioned in Valve's basic tutorials as non-free contents). So then, no matter which site I upload my tutorial videos created with SFM, I should open it for free to the public. I assume Patreon rewards would have to be limited to things like suggesting videos rather than watching them - or other things entirely - but as long as the final videos are on Youtube with no paywall, that does seem to be within the policy. Originally posted by Marco Skoll:Aside from Youtube monetisation (or whatever another video site calls the equivalent), there also seems to be a certain amount of leeway around things like Twitch and Patreon (given the large streaming community using both), as long as the final videos are free for anyone to view. So, are you saying that I am allowed to get paid from Youtube by uploading advertisements with using SFM models while I let public to view as free? If you said yes, then it means I cannot upload tutorial videos and get paid on online tutorial websites with using Valve's assets.
Beyond that, I don't even know exactly what you're asking about here. If you refer to VALVe's video policy, they say that you are free to for example have advertisements on the video on YouTube, but that the video itself must be possible to view without paying money.įrom what I can tell, you're free to make money with Source Filmmaker stuff while using VALVe's characters, as long as the end product is not locked behind an actual "pay-wall".Īgain, you should get permission from all relevant people/companies first, at the very least. (For example, if someone uploads a model of Mario from the Super Mario series, you should get permission from both the model's uploader and from Nintendo.) It is, however, only allowed if you can get permission from the uploads' authors, as well as the copyright holders if the franchise it's from/based on is owned by someone.
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