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So I now that I am getting deeper into coding art projects, I am beginning to think about how to make a living doing it. To make in the art world, you need to make a name for yourself using your projects
I'm not sure your projects mean diddly-squat.
(ideally, of course, there is also a ton of bullshit involved). Up til now, I have released all software that I have written under the GPL since I firmly believe that all software should be free. But now I am thinking that there might need to be one minor caveat for some art projects: the credit clause.
I know all about the old BSD license and the problems with it, that is why I am in a quandary about this. I am creating projects that anyone could download and set up and, if released under the GPL, claim complete credit for. So I am thinking of releasing them under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.
So my particular question lies is trying to figure out what harm will come of releasing art code with an Attribution clause. I believe that some harm is inevitable, but I think it my be a necessary comprimise.
I just read the rest of this thread {which, strangely enough got filed into my inbox rather than my pd-ot folder.}
My question would be... why bother?
Why don't you just do the thing put it up on the web, copyright it and use it as promotion. There's a hell of a lot more money to be made out here...
My opinion... art's kind of gpled in the first place... interesting ideas get absorbed back into the art world... {folk can't actually help it {unless you've made no impression at all {in which case you need to do a bit more studio time.}}} College kids the world over will be mimicking your stuff {if it's any good} within a few days. You get a window so that you've got some time to make a profit... if it's really good you get your name in the books... {maybe get rich.}
There is always this... http://www.perl.com/pub/a/language/misc/Artistic.html
I'm not quite sure what the "old school artist" comment is supposed to mean.