Why the double standard on this site?

-Flash artists are allowed to use unoriginal and ripped video game samples. Copyrighted sprites, icons, backgrounds, and music can be utilized in their flashes; I'm 99% positive they do not ask the companies for permission, and they generate money from (possibly through ad-revenue, sponsorships, and NG prize money) their submissions while audio artists are NOT allowed to use samples (from copyrighted movie clips, for example), despite the conditions of how they use the sample (splicing and what not), and in most people's cases, are NOT making money through their music.

To repeat the matter at hand in more eloquent matter here is a post by InGenius:

"To broaden what LJCoffee already said about Fair Use, that can only be used in terms of non-commercial, promotional, or non-profit usages, or when you are using mangled/glitched/chopped (ie., not looped) pieces of another artist's composition. Ie., using the drums from the Amen break for a drumkit MAY be Fair Use regardless of profit/non-profit end result, BUT using the loop itself is never Fair Use. Likewise, under a CC license, you are absolutely correct in the breakdown of the possible suits and countersuits, fines, etc. So it's generally not a good idea.............Except:

Many of the users of NG's audio portal don't particularly like the unfair use of Copywritten audio in Flash here at NG. There are SO many popular (and revenue/profit making) flashes with copywritten music in them, it strikes myself and others as odd that the AP is restricted to a CC license but Flash is not. The entire reason the AP was started was to provide Flash artists with music for their Flash, yet so many Front Page, Top 5, Weekly, etc. Flashes, and the vast majority of ad revenue (I hate MochiAds, btw) producing Flashes have copywritten (thus, illegal) music in them. Why the double standard? So I can see why many of the AP's artists blatantly ignore the CC rules for sampling, especially considering the fact that there are alot of us who have had our music used in a flash that made ad revenue, but we were not even given a Thank You many times, let alone an offer to share in the revenue. Share and share alike, indeed. There's an entire thread devoted to that happenstance with an artist, in fact."

Can anyone here give a legal justification as why Flash artists are allowed to bend the rules and audio artists are not?

Fuck you

pay me

Whilst knowing magic can open new worlds it also destroys the magic from an ignorant but blissful perspective...

11-13-08

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Have a wondeful holiday guys

Just for fun, I tried to think off all the unusual facts about myself. I was suprised (and slightly proud and ashamed) that I could find this many.

1. I have a syndrome where I can only pleasure myself in prone position, called "Tramautic Masturbatory Syndrome". I have never used my hands in the entire 8-9 years I've been pleasuring myself.
2. I can't eat mashed potatoes without throwing up. The texture makes me vomit.
3. I have more music in my reptoire that doesnt feature a guitar, than does.
4. my mom, aunt, and uncle, all share the same birthday.
5. I'm 20, never had any intimate relations with a girl, or had any "true" friends since my years at elementary school.
6. I'm extremely good at findings things on the internet
7. I play three instruments, and use my computer to write music for any style, however, I am mediocre at all of them. I'm quite proud of my versatility, but I hate even more my mediocrity, and not sticking to one or two styles and excelling in them.
8. I can remember random basketball stats that date back from the early 90s.
9. I have extrememly skinny fingers, NO ONE, literally no one, I have met that is my age for the past six years or so, has skinnier fingers than me.
10. Despite trying with doctors and psychologists, I can't swallow pills. I've had to order special medications in liquid form for my acne and depression medications.
11. I really don't have any idea what race I am.
12. I will likely have to get a corneria transplant eventually.
13. I havent spent a dime out of the paychecks I've recieved in the job that I've worked at for 1.5 years.
14. I'm obssessed with apples. (Honeycrisp and granny smith FTMFW!)
15. I have a foot fetish (not that unusual...)
16. During 2007-2008, I had a serious problem with anxiety. I literally believed I had almost any type of cancer that you could get, and partially due to these problems, I had to drop out of school because I couldnt concentrate. I wrote about it a little bit about it ?here.
17. I still play with stuffed animals sometimes.
18. I used to be quite superstitious, before my favorite basketball team would play (Suns), i'd play four games of NBA Jam, one with the Orlando Magic, one with the New York Knicks, one with the Minnesota Timberwolves, and one with the Miami Heat, and tune my guitar to CGEABE (a Hawaiin tuning, if I'm not mistaken). When I did this, the Suns won most (if not all) of their games (including the monumental comeback against the Lakers in the 2006 playoffs). my genesis adapter died a couple years ago, so I can't really do it anymore...
19. I hum classical sounding music in my sleep.
20. I used to hack cheat codes for the PS2 (fun times!)
21. I cringe anytime I hear someone say "open minded".
22. I spend a lot of my parents money on foreign anime and action figures. JUST KIDDING LOL!
23. This one no one believes. Probably its physically impossible. But, I remember the day I was born. The way its structured in my mind, and its blurriness, and accuracy according to what my mother says happened on my birthday makes it to real to be just a memory or dream that was formed later on in my life. No one believes, but I'm 100% certain its true.

I'll add more later. Anyone else want to share

We are currently experiencing some technical difficulties. Please standby. BEEEEEEEEEEEEP

"believe what you will but just listen to me. I sent these songs out along time ago when i was seven and im just sending them again to newgrounds to keep them convenient and dont say no because at that time before we moved away from my dad he would HIT ME FOR NOT MAKING ANYTHING MAAAANLY WTF EVER I FOLLOW MY OWN DREAMS. If you dont believe me then fine ill do something catastrophic for the world as i already have and invention idea that would throw the world into chaos < thats what ill do i this is gone because you dont understand this is all i have left and I wont let a bunch of assholes take it away from me"

America should not be socialist, it needs to be oligarchic.

The rich should rule over the land while we dominate the middle and lower classes.

Why the hell do we need to have public education? That's socialist. You're too poor to afford an education, it is completely your fault you were born into a poor family, go find better, new parents.

Police Officers? WTF? Why the hell should my taxes be directed to keep people in the slums safe from us? Pay for your own damn personal bodyguards.

Healthcare? Well if you cant afford that, it's not our problem, I'm sorry but you're going to have to create your own medicine from scratch.

Also...

I payed for these roads. Stop driving on them!
Get out of my library, these books were bought with my tax money, GTFO!

You socialist thinkers arent important enough to recieve these priviledges. PWNED NOOBS! LET THE RICH RULE, THIS IS THE AMERICAN DREAM I THINK!

Fellow NGers of NG, male and female, youg and old, tall and small, black or white, circular or rectangular, I have a question to ask you all.

What are your aspirations in life?

For people that are in high school (or middle school) do you have any idea what you want to do yet? For those that maybe dropped out of school, or are about to or (maybe not) enter college, do you have any idea what you might get an education in? Or do you absolutely have no idea at all? Maybe you've already found out what your "calling" in life is and you're either working towards your goal actively or possibly already living the dream (if you have a profession, is it what you wanted to do? or do you hate your job?). What is your purpose and motivation behind these goals? Once the goal is complete, what good is it to you?

If you read this please tell me because I am curious :D

Pancakes or Waffles?