Jonathan Coulton

Woh, I didn't mean to start a text brawl or be vague. My opinion is that royalty checks AREN'T required to keep music alive or vibrant, though possibly the industry aspect DOES require them. I have to hold up Jonathon Coulton here (http://www.jonathancoulton.com/). He loves his fans (who love him back) and doesn't require people to pay just to share his work. BTW, sorry I pissed people off, it wasn't my intention.

I'm delighted your stopped by! Thanks to you and Weird Al for all of your dastardly animated criminal words. Your Shop Vac cartoon led me to discover Jonathan Coulton's other geeky music, like Code Monkey! He makes his songs available via the Creative Commons license, so people have made some really cool videos to them, including yours. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Coulton https://www.jonathancoulton.com/ Shop Vac: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4sOfO8Ei1g Code Monkey videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Wy7gRGgeA >Jonathan Coulton is a singer/songwriter who releases his songs via the Creative Commons license, which enables projects such as this video. Through his "Thing A Week" podcast, Jonathan has put out a clever, creative song like this one every week for a year. >Mike Spiff Booth is a Program Manager at Adobe who though this great song really deserved a video. >Before you ask, since apes, goblins, and night elf receptionists don't tend to interact much in the wild, I couldn't only use captured game footage to make this video. Every frame of this video was composited together by hand using images captured from the WoW Model Viewer, WoW Map Viewer, and the World of Warcraft game itself. >No monkeys were harmed in the making of this film. >Please visit www.spiffworld.com for more information about my videos, including info about how I make them. >The song at the end of the video is "Big Bad World One", another great Jonathan Coulton…

Exactly the anecdote that I thought of when I saw this project. It also reminds me of Johnathan Coulton's breakout period - his Thing A Week project: http://www.jonathancoulton.com/category/thing-a-week/ Incidentally, this technique works. If you want to learn a creative skill, I'd argue it's about the best way to do it.

It's worth pointing out that Coulton claims that he bought a license to distribute his version. Source: http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2013/01/18/baby-got-back-and-glee/

"They also got in touch with my peeps to basically say that they’re within their legal rights to do this, and that I should be happy for the exposure (even though they do not credit me, and have not even publicly acknowledged that it’s my version – so you know, it’s kind of SECRET exposure)." Source: Coulton's blog http://www.jonathancoulton.com

Jonathan Coulton said it well: "I believe in copyright. I benefit from it. I don’t want it to go away. I love that we have laws and people to enforce them. But if I had to give up one thing, if I had to choose between copyright and the wild west, semi-lawless, innovation-fest that is the internet? I’ll take the internet every time." http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2012/01/21/megaupload/

> At the same time, I probably wouldn't even notice that famous Beatles recordings were recorded in mono. https://www.jonathancoulton.com/2008/10/10/funny-story/ > What’s amazing to me is that it hasn’t really mattered in any significant way. I’m sure I sweated like crazy over the stereo placement of this or that element during the mixing process, and then I just plastered over all those details with stucco, and turns out nobody really cares. Not even me, apparently. As far as my personal experience, I've noticed a stereo effect as being kind of cool on one song, and severely detrimental on one other song. Overall, my world would be better if every track was in mono. (What's the problem? "Pineapple Princess" plays on a Pandora channel of mine in stereo. I listen to Pandora with headphones. The particular stereo implementation is that the bass only plays in one of the ears. It's truly awful.) (This one, in case there are multiple covers: https://www.pandora.com/artist/annette-funicello-childrens/annettes-be… )

He apparently isn't owed royalties, he just wants acknowledgment. http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2013/01/18/baby-got-back-and-glee/

Per Coulton himself, he hasn't found any definite proof of it being used in a Glee episode so far, so it's ossible that it;s some overenthusiastic fanboy/girl. http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2013/01/18/baby-got-back-and-glee/

Read this: http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2012/01/21/megaupload/

It was sarcastic: http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2012/01/21/megaupload/

I don't mean to be a jerk, but this post was lifted wholesale from Jonathan's actual blog: http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2011/05/23/on-snuggies-and-business-mod… And this is the actual link to the post named in the submission: http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2011/05/how-jonathan-coulton-made-50000…

The song is free on Coulton's website: http://www.jonathancoulton.com/songdetails/Mandelbrot%20Set

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ http://www.techcrunch.com/ http://redvsblue.com/home.php http://www.purepwnage.com/ And for music...well maybe this is niche for me, but I like http://www.jonathancoulton.com/ And things like this are really only possible now: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5482774

A song inspired by that video (or possibly a similar one): http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2007/06/07/im-back-2/

Nice, but I personally prefer Jonathan Coulton's Code Monkey song ;-) http://www.jonathancoulton.com/mp3/Code%20Monkey.mp3

In addition to Radiohead, I was thinking of Jonathan Coulton. Many of his songs are still available for free, but enough people choose to buy them or to pay to see him perform live that he grossed half a million dollars last year. For instance, here's one of his songs with three options: (1) buy the song, (2) download the mp3 (without charge), (3) send a donation: http://www.jonathancoulton.com/wiki/Chiron_Beta_Prime > The very fact that the idea was strangled in its crib by a wise-ass, coupled with the dearth of similar ideas out there in the real world, seems to demonstrate fairly well that this is not a good idea. Whether something "is a good idea" depends on context, which changes. This wouldn't have been a good idea a few decades ago because the technology wasn't there to enable it. As society gets wealthier and smarter we can afford to support more free-riders and it becomes less and less important to rigorously charge for stuff. "serve yourself" soda refills is an example, as is the institution of unlimited free napkins, toilet paper, and use of the restroom. Any of those could be crippled by wise-asses too. > a hypothetical successful musician putting her album online, where the worst that a single defector can do is take the album for free. Something a single defector can do that's worse than that would be to (1) take the album for free, (2) put up a website encouraging others to do the same and expressing contempt for all the suckers who choose to pay, (3) get…