Do royalties apply to online user-created material?

Hi. I know for a fact that indie cartoon and comics makers who showcase their cartoons and comics in video form on video-sharing sites like YouTube, Dailymotion and Metacafe can monetize them and they get paid by 1000 views per video. On YouTube it's $1-$2.50 per 1000 views per video at least and on Dailymotion and Metacafe it's $5 per 1000 views per video.

There's a lot of places online where cartoon and comics makers, other artists and writers can showcase their work.

I know on certain sites cartoon and comics makers can do commission work to make money.

I know on certain sites writers can do commission work to make money.

I would imagine people who produce any kind of audio work and showcase it online anywhere could do commission work to make money.

Do these people get paid royalties every time their stuff is looked at and/or listened to online? If not, I think that is a good idea.

It would be a good idea if the people who publish their works on video sharing sites, artist/writer community sites, social media, etc. got paid something every time people viewed their work and/or heard their work online.

Please help. Thank you.

Hi. I know for a fact that indie cartoon and comics makers who showcase their cartoons and comics in video form on video-sharing sites like YouTube, Dailymotion and Metacafe can monetize them and they get paid by 1000 views per video. On YouTube it's $1-$2.50 per 1000 views per video at least and on Dailymotion and Metacafe it's $5 per 1000 views per video.

YouTube is tightening the rules around its partner program and raising the requirements that a channel/creator must meet in order to monetize videos. Effective immediately, to apply for monetization (and have ads attached to videos), creators must have tallied 4,000 hours of overall watch time on their channel within the past 12 months and have at least 1,000 subscribers. YouTube will enforce the new eligibility policy for all existing channels as of February 20th, meaning that channels that fail to meet the threshold will no longer be able to make income from ads.

Previously, the standard for joining YouTube’s Partner Program was 10,000 public views — without any specific requirement for annual viewing hours. This change will no doubt make it harder for new, smaller channels to reach monetization, but YouTube says it’s an important way of buying itself more time to see who’s following the company’s guidelines and disqualify “bad actors.”

I would imagine people who produce any kind of audio work and showcase it online anywhere could do commission work to make money.

Do these people get paid royalties every time their stuff is looked at and/or listened to online? If not, I think that is a good idea.

It would be a good idea if the people who publish their works on video sharing sites, artist/writer community sites, social media, etc. got paid something every time people viewed their work and/or heard their work online.

People who get paid make stuff. They finish it, and they don't dawdle for years.