At 8/31/09 02:08 PM, AniMetal wrote:
1.) How much money are you approximately making off your audio portal submissions alone?
Pennies if you rely on your audio submission alone. Pretty much all of the adshare I get on NG is from submissions using my audio, only a few dollars have accumulated from audio portal adverts.
2.) Is there any set length maximum for how long a audio track can be? Like, could I upload something say 15 minutes long if I wanted to as long as I made it?
There is no length limit, however there is an 8mb filesize limit. If you want to release a long track, consider doing it in parts as opposed to compressing it and killing the quality! Also you could always release a sample on newgrounds and have the full download somewhere else.
3.) As long as I credited the original artist or band in the authors comments, could I upload songs on the audio portal that are 8-bit covers? As in, turning metal songs into catchy Nintendo sounding tunes that could be used in plat formers and such.
Technically yes, this is covered under fair use. Generally speaking, if you use none of the original recording in your track, and provide credit, you are well within the bounds of tribute work, and therefore covered by fair use. Fair use also does, to an extent, cover remixing, even of commercial tracks, however for first submissions there tends to be a moderation sway for totally original work. You will not be banned for doing a cover, however!
