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  1. If you don’t know what sacrifices you would be prepared to make then you are not ready. I guess you haven’t seen any of those Rocumentary films where the wife says to the musician hubby, if you go on tour we are done. And he goes on tour. it may seem brutal on her but if music is what he does, music is what he does. Same with all them Rodeo songs like George Strait “I Can Still Make Cheyenne”. Another song with this message is The Cult “Heart Of Soul”. You may think it irrelevant I list these songs you probably don’t even want to like. See em this way, they are like little TED Talks from specialists in the field. Not just some 30+ year vet who almost got signed then ended up on Fiverr, but people who made it to the top and stayed there. Learn from your history, the people who went before and worked out how it works and passed that forward to you. Vanilla Ice probably had no idea that most of his song was “borrowed” or if he did at that time probably didn’t care. He seems a decent chap now but back then he was a total paddle pop. His record label would have made the song and at that time, sampling was still a fairly open playing field with many still believing that this was fine, noble even. Or, they may have known it would get a demand from Queen and figured the song would Hit so fast that it would be worth it for the extra publicity and sense of naughtiness it added to Ice’s public bad-boy persona. There is still plenty of value in the example. Not that stealing is ok, but that it is not always the end. Go ask Flame 😉 Again, again, again, you need to step away from this thought process. This is fear alone talking. If you can write hit songs, even if someone else nicks it, it only proves that you are better than they are and that you can do it again. The thief can never do anything so they are easy to ride over. Willie Nelson used to sell songs for a few bucks. Do you think he regrets that? I doubt it. he has enough of his own hits that he or someone else wrote. The song is what counts. Besides, and this is the really important thing you are not getting through you, you cannot control what has not happened and might never happen, and if it did, might be the greatest gift from god if it did. Garth Brooks had a hit with a song all about that. The song is what counts. How you let the song lead you is what counts. KISS learned this under Bob Ezrin as he had them re-purpose a song into “Beth” and their first real Hit. They spring-boarded that even further with Pau’s “I Was Made For Loving You”. Forget all this fear. Or better, let yourself see and and shrug it off so you and the songs that chose you can do their work. 🙂
  2. [benedictrm] wrote: I already answered that above. So long as you can prove that you were there first and that the other person traded off your work, you are (technically) set. But again, all that is piss in the wind until there is enough money on the table to make https://forum.fiverr.com/t/when-to-copyright-my-music-when-giving-it-to-sellers/625610/7suing worthwhile. So if I timestamp my work by posting it on the internet then I am technically set. Also people will most probably not make any money from my stuff so no need to sue. If they make a lot of money then I can technically sue. The problem I was worried about is if they make some money then if I have a official copyright then I won’t have to pay the legal fees. SO practically there is very low probability of this happening so its no use worrying about it. So what you are suggesting is “Trust the Song, let the Song lead.” (I don’t know how to do quotes). So you are saying I put the song out there and see what happens. The issue I have with that is that if the song is good then there is more chance that others will try to do something unethical with the song. So If I don’t worry and focus on writing a good song and put it out there then unethical people will be more motivated to do something unethical. if its not a good song I have nothing to worry about. My problem is that I am planning to write a lot of songs and beats and fiverr is the best place I found for hired work. I am on a tight budget cause I have to do a lot of songs. So I have to work with people who seem questionable since they are low price gigs. My other problem is that I don’t want to bulk copyright a bunch of songs and beats. I want to do one or two songs at a time and see how the songs do and how I can improve them. And then apply all my new knowledge to write another song. If I do a lot of songs at a time then all the songs might have the same flaws. We can talk about what unethical things can cause me problems if that helps. I think I should give a little more background on how I collaborate. One way is, I write the song all by myself and in most cases I even sing the songand then I give to a singer in fiverr to copy my singing, basically do a cover I will obviously have an informal copywright by timestamping itI am worried the singer will give the song to someone else in the industry whoI don’t know how will misuse my song. There are many ways they can misuse by song, that can be a long discussion to have here. I write the Beat for a hip-hop song and give it to a rapper to write the lyricand rap for the song. in this case the rapper has 50% of the copyrightone worry is the rapper will claim the beat as his ownhe may give it to someone else in the industry who I don’t know how will misuse the beatThanks [benedictrm] for all the very helpful advice. If you can add something based on my new discussion, that will be helpful. I have one of those images too, right next to my inquiry form to remind people that if they want the moon but intend to invest a used peanut for it, things probably won’t go as per their pipe dreams. image527×624 57.5 KBI think that you are not taking in what is really being said here @sohanalam183 Letting the Song lead is about doing what the song needs to get where it needs to go. The reality here is that “Ice Ice Baby” probably really did need to lean on the Queen song to get there. It is a super track really and I can’t imagine it without that borrowed hook. The only real fault here was that they didn’t clear it first. Or maybe in the wash, if Ice’s peeps had asked Queen’s peeps it would have been an automatic no which would have killed that song and all the joy it brought to so many. Not that I endorse the stealing but ultimately the song did what it needed to do and everyone got paid. Forget all this obsessing about what might (but probably won’t) happen and let the songs do what they need to do. Get on and get this song out. Then turn around and do it again with the next. The most powerful thing in developing a career is publishing and doing it again. Whilst all your energy is in this distracting fear you will deliver nothing. If budget is tight - and who doesn’t have a tight budget* - you find ways to move with what you have. Many acts have a first recording or three that are rough as guts. Without them, the act would not have become the shiny version you know. These rough records let the act learn their craft as well as start to build a fanbase of people who are there for the songs (instead of only for sound effects). Again, it is songs and the passion in their delivery that matters. Getting that down costs you very little financially. 🙂 *I get so tired of people who try to make me their slave because they think they are the only person with a tight budget. When people tell me that money issues are unique to them it tells me that they a danger to work with as they have no thought for anything but themselves. they will never follow the song where it needs to go and will abuse everyone when it all falls in a heap. And it will seeing they see nothing but uber-stardom as a success and their “career” will look like this over and over seeing their ladder to success has no rungs:
  3. Yes this is a grave concern with Fiverr (and probably most other places these days). Everyone goes on about not upsetting anyone whilst upsetting people - only those people are considered irrelevant. Yay Cancel Culture. What I can say is that your first mistake was not sending this piece of 💩 on their way the moment they started whining about a discount. Begging for sympathy based on some heath or family tragedy is a huge Red Flag. Scambot 101 stuff. 🙂
  4. I already answered that above. So long as you can prove that you were there first and that the other person traded off your work, you are (technically) set. But again, all that is piss in the wind until there is enough money on the table to make suing worthwhile. Until then you can use YouTube etc to remove offending things that you can reasonably show to have been taken from your without permission. You work with someone, they take your hook, use it in their song and publish it on YouTube. You contact YT showing how you wrote that part, worked with this person giving them opportunity, and now they have your part in their track under their name. Most likely their video either gets blocked totally or any monies they make come in part or full to you. Normally you get to decide that. (Eagles allow virtually no use of their songs at all).You hire a Mix Engineer who shows the finished work in their Portfolio. Unless already formally agreed otherwise, chasing this would be extremely bad manners and YT will probably uphold their right to have the video so long as the song is identified as yours and their Credit proves they have a right to display this work (a legal right under law).Again, talk to people you seek to work with. Slippery people are always slippery, they can’t help but be grand. Real Professionals are nothing like Sharkskin Suited Slimeballs in films. We tend to be to-the-point, blunt even. We want to contribute to a Great Work of Art and build a Relationship. No more, no less. Also, again, all this worrying is not doing you any good at all. It will only lead you to make poor choices as your fear leads rather than getting the song where it needs to go. Trust the Song, let the Song lead. 🙂
  5. Honestly, as a Musician and Mix Engineer for 30+ years, i think you are worrying far too much and obsessing over details that probably don’t have much relevance for you right now. Most of those detail things are administered between your Publishing Company (Record Label) and the administration organizations (ASCAP). You don’t get into it because either: you have nothing in particular worth protecting, yes I mean that. If you aren’t yet Metallica, you have nothing worth protecting, because in great part you have nothing worth stealing. That is no reflection on your music simply that with no money in the game there is nothing of any particular value.you haven’t realized that your work has copyright the moment you put it into form and particularly when you publish it. Technically there is no more to it. You put your tune on YouTube and Katy Perry comes along and clones it, you were there first. See point #1As Ms 7413 said, those who have a habit of stealing care not for the laws of good men, they will do what they do. If you fall under Point #1 you have nowhere to go as you can only really sue someone once there is money in the game. However, if hypothetically I were the writer of a song called oh I don’t know, “Under Pressure” and some cove called Vanilla Ice came along and made a #1 Smash Hit from my song I would feel blessed as not only does this prove that I have got summit’ but I get to talk about how I am the real fella behind Mr Ice’s happenin’ hit. That should see people nosing around. Also seeing Mr Ice has raked in massive mounds of pounds I can hire me some peeps to be talking to his peeps about how half of those proceeds are really mine. Before the court case ever really starts I will probably have a check in my bank and my name on all the credits to ensure what I am owed comes along in the future. You have to give trust to get trust. I won’t work with people who show they don’t want to trust me. It will become a nightmare fur us both. So for now, don’t fret what is essentially irrelevant and focus on finding people who are trustworthy. You can spot people who are born slippy as once a leopard, always spotty. This means that their proposals are probably full of signs that they are loose with the truth. Exaggerated claims, too cool for school 'tood, stupidly low pricing… 🙂
  6. Honestly they both scream tacky to me. I know people do it all over the place but it is poor form to use the logos of another business to promote yours. It suggests that you are official or endorsed by them as that is the only time you are legally allowed to use a logo in this fashion. Make sure it is neat as these aren’t which suggests that if I got a website from you alignments would be all over the place. Not a great plan. Personally I prefer the orange one as at least it is bold and cheery, but none of this is the right way of going about finding high quality clients. Maybe I assume wrongly and you don’t want that in which case go nasty, go big. Instead show your actual work. Show something unique not cover art. 🙂
  7. Fiverr is different from some other places and Coarse Ogre is actually right - if not flippant as his habit these days Grrr Once you have attained a Level, so long as you do not do anything to make your stats dip below the thresholds you don’t lose the level badge. So if you don’t get any reviews or any reviews that take you below 4.7 there is no drama. 🙂
  8. What makes you think a client not giving you a Review/Star Rating affects your account Level? I have a sneaky feeling there may be more to this story than you have typed. You mention what could be a sign you got desperate and did some thing - maybe took on a client you should not have?? 🙂
  9. Well it is not surprising as Shearing means to cut the wool or hair from an animal. If everyone is busy cutting their pet’s hair, they are not working on making Gigs that customers would actually be interested in. Accuracy is important. 😉
  10. Well i tis not surprising as Shearing means to cut the wool or hair from an animal. If everyone is busy butting their pet’s hair, they are not working on making Gigs that customers would actually be interested in. Accuracy is important. 😉
  11. This is exactly what I am trying to lead you to. Some things cannot be solved head-on. If you change how you see a thing, your options change. 🙂
  12. I being panicked helping you in any way? 😉
  13. Best not to see it as “ruined my profile” as ruined is a final, fatal word. Your profile took a hit, that is for sure. We all take a hit now and then. Our job in business is to work out how to rise from it. How is it that this happened? Did you let the wrong one in? Could you make Red Flags easier to spot with better a) Requirements Form, b) courage and willingness to bring out the word “No” (as expressed through the sniper rifle, machine gun, flamethrower - or perhaps more conducive to longevity on the platform the Block button)? 🙂
  14. Wait! We mustn’t throw such violent thoughts into space. It’s relativity. It’s mutant manifestation. Sometimes, a wish is the chime heard on the wind. Depending on the listener - that wish may come true. Depending on the wind, it can be brutal. Do you realize what sort of disorganized, fragmentia could emerge by remaking Ferris Bueller? Ferris Bueller is the guardian to the cosmic portal. A teenage movie about delinquency with a moral center and grade - A humanity? That’s not a movie. That’s a miracle produced by the universe, sent here to protect us from ourselves. An audio/video ancient scroll, translated into 80’s lingo, complete with a modernized monastic chant: (Bow Bow chick … chick-a-chick ahhhhh) Ferris is a modern translation of Fergus. Fergus in Irish culture can be traced to Fearghuis (or Feargus) a giant appearing with mortals as a protector. Some believe him to be a spirit - or God- protecting the realm for those that share his story. His forms have included a lengthy run as protector and king of Ulster. Sworn to always protect - until he was replaced. Needless to say … they weren’t so protected after that. (There’s also a lot of “Lengthy” information on the size of his … let’s call it “Manhood.” Like, an uncomfortable amount of info. Like… who was asking to this extent?) By now, I’m sure you’ve made the connection. In its current form, “Ferris Bueller’s Day off” is our protector of this realm. Remaking it would act as a symbolic “replacement” ceremony, causing the realm to be totally susceptible to all sorts of badness. I ask you, “in the name of O’ Fearghuis, where does it stop? We, the small and pitiful of this fleshly tribe, have already tempted the fates by remaking Psycho. (Pause Scene: Seriously, does anybody remember that? The time that Gus Van Zant lost his ever loving mind, got drunk while watching “Swingers” and thought, “This loud kid would make an amazing Norman Bates?” Was that a fever dream?) It’s a commonly known fact that ideological and mythological deities loath the remake. We’re bending the spatial and temporal dimensions by eroding the ecosystem of preservation currently provided to us by such diverse and complex beings. Rumor has it, upon seeing the live action remake of “Dumbo,” Perun, Slavic God of Sky, returned to the Pantheon and denounced Polytheism. Denounced it! Reason cited? “There’s no amount of deities that can undo this dumpster pile. I’m out.” Great! So let’s hope the sky doesn’t need tending to. Pangu, the Chinese horned beast that came into existence from the same egg that birthed the universe watched thirty minutes of the “Carrie” remake and immediately posed the primordial existential question. He posed it directly to the Jade Emperor! The actual inventor of “something.” Who was all like, “because I said so.” Do you see the consequences of these actions? Remakes aren’t just bad movies, they’re a declaration of a divinity lost. It’s humans run amuck. Our muck runneth over. Please, please never suggest, even in the most hypothetical and passive sense, that “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” could ever be remade. But, if it pleases the God’s, I’d definitely listen to a sequel pitch. I’m with him ^ Maybe not as mentally magnificently but I agree that Ferris is not one that should be remade. The Footloose remake worked. The Valley Girl remake barely did (actually it was p poor) but the girls thought it was ok. It sure wasn’t no Pretty In Pink. Ferris is too unique to remake and have any way to equal, let alone add to it. Esp seeing whoever remade it would not be able to help but try to make it modern and that would send it the way of Post Break (that movie that probably single-handedly caused Patrick Swayze to die). 🙂
  15. @marinapomorac ASD? 🙂 somemorecharacterstoletmepost
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