City of Heroes: The Fist and the Light

That's a very cool production. I liked it. I think CoX should add a link to acceptable videos (like this) and put it on their site. It's an excellent vehicle to dazzle people.

The only comment I would add (that hasn't been noted already) is adding items from the Vills side. Cap has some cool areas (the globe above the arbiter), the patron arcs have some cool scenes (Scirocco's finale is a good one) and the casino/pyramid is quite cool too.

Maybe a quick zoom in on the main Villain groups? Quick shots of some very cool supers? I don't know. So many cool ways to go. I can't wait to see the next one. Great work!

Yes, the music is Nightwish - The Poet and the Pendulum from their latest album, Dark Passion Play.

As stated, the problem is now I can't post the video anywhere. I'm not going to make another video if it will just get taken down anywhere I try to post it...

Re: using copyrighted material - there are some artists that don't really care (or can't be bothered to chase down every infraction), and others that DO (for example, Evanescence had EVERY video using one of their songs pulled from the animemusicvideos.org website). If Nightwish is one of the latter, then you're SOL apart from hosting it on your own server. Of course, should you receive a cease-and-desist notification, you'd still have to take it down.

Speaking ONLY for myself here, whenever I post a video up on YouTube, I always include the band's name in my video description and in the tags, I always put the band's name and title of the song in my end credits, and I always put the following disclaimer at the end of the description:

"ALL RIGHTS RESERVED BY THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS."

So far, so good.

That may not be enough for Facebook and MySpace - I don't know, I don't have accounts with either one.

You could TRY and contact Nightwish's agent to see if you can get permission to use the song - stranger things have happened. I contacted the band This Morn'Omina to ask permission to use some of their music in my videos, and was given permission so long as I a) credited the song and band in my end credits, and b) put a link to their website on either my site or the YouTube page with the video. (I haven't made it yet, but I will be.)

So what the hell, give it a shot and ask them - at this rate, you have nothing to lose.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Thanks for the advise. I will let you all know what happens.