New Movement Worse Than The Old Movement
I'm currently writing a web series and have been scouting out places to post it or new areas of distribution. I saw somthing in an article (I believe posted here) about a site called 60frames that was starting up and thought I'd look into it. Nothing was up at the time so I signed up for their e-mail for news when it started.
Well, the site has been launched and... wow, it's bad. To start, the description is: "60Frames is working with really talented artists to create really awesome, original internet programming." Clearly, this is going to be a very professional site.
Now, I can't talk much because my series is a pretty silly cop spoof and it's not like I'm going to be the guy who finally raises the level of internet series to actual art (although, that needs to happen) but most of the shows on that site were pretty terrible. Even worse than that, the site seems to promote itself like it's some new and improved distribution site. On the site it describes itself as, "60Frames is a new financing and syndication company, born of the belief that internet content should be much more ambitious than videos of cats playing piano and people falling down stairs. 60Frames was custom built to make it easy for smart, talented, professional artists to harness the power of the internet to entertain, enhance their relationship with their audience, and make money through their efforts."
Great. Just want I'm looking for, right? Wrong. To start, I'm not really sure what the site does. It just posts your stuff on their site and other sites (which anyone can upload videos on) and I didn't see any sponsor videos or any ads at all. On top of that, the blurb closes with the fact that the site isn't accepting submissions. So how does someone take advantage of this opporunity to "harness the power of the internet"? Beats me and I'm not going to find out. Check out their terms of service.
"If, despite our request that you not send us any creative materials, you send or have sent us creative suggestions, ideas, notes, drawings, concepts or other information (collectively, the "Information"), the Information shall be deemed, and shall remain, our property, and 60Frames shall own all now known and hereafter existing rights of every kind in and to the Information, in perpetuity."
Man, that's worse than the current Hollywood system. With zero advertisers that I could see on the site, I can't imagine it lasts more than a year.
