Topic: Sometimes doing the right thing suxs.
So I'm itching to start my next project, I found a neat script on the web. 4 pages, three sets, two actors, great short story. Right up my alley. It was written by a random oversea's. It was posted in good faith with a 2014 copyright notice on the front. Fair nuff. I emailed the author seeking permission to use it for free and started writing a script better suited to brick films. I started a storyboard as well. Went home and built one of the three sets.
I get an email back from the author in the morning. His response:
No.
Bummer dude. I didn't realise the script was hot off the press and he's trying to spruik it for money. Can't grudge him for that. Thing is, I could have easily just taken the script without permission and animated it, posted on my youtube and he nor anyone else would be any wiser.
No regrets but. I'll contact him in a month or two and see if he has a change of heart. The problem is I need something now and I'm about to go trawling for another script meaning I'll quickly lose interest in his sweet four pager.
No regrets though. If I'm going to stay in this hobby I can't do it based on lies and theft. On to the next project!