FRAF Pullout and Musician Interview Explained
Summary
In Homestuck Community this announcement covers a project pulling out of the FRAF license after contract concerns and a warning to have a lawyer review agreements. It also highlights an interview with a Homestuck musician discussing worker exploitation and the impact on creators, information vital to the community.
Two pieces of bittersweet news today.
First, an entire project pulls out of FRAF after its leader reads the contract more carefully:
My primary concern has always been with the fair treatment of the many talented, creative individuals that worked on this project. While FRAF seemed like an interesting idea that would help promote their work, after some thought on this my concerns about potential conflicts of licensing outweigh the benefits of involvement with FRAF.
If you don't remember what the FRAF (Fruity Rumpus Asshole Factory) license is, it's something Andrew Hussie recently introduced to "officialize" and extract profit from fanworks he has no involvement in, with nothing but exposure and vague legal implications in exchange.
If you're part of FRAF, or about to become part of it, please have a lawyer look over the contract, for your own sake.
Related, and uncovered today, this interview from Robert J! Lake, Homestuck musician known for flash tracks The Beginning of Something Really Excellent (Jade playing the bass) and Let The Squiddles Sleep (Jade dreaming about horrorterrors). You might have seen him at Gamescom recently for his game Unbeatable.
In the interview, we get the following exchange:
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Q: What were y'all's first experiences with worker exploitation? [...]
RJ: Yeah, uh, for me it was anything related to Homestuck. [...] My first ever "real" job doing creative work was I did music for Homestuck. [...] I did quite a bit of it [...]
Q: Oh, you're old.
RJ: I am very old, I'm thirty. [...] It sucks being thirty, and guess what, I was half that age when I started doing shit for Homestuck [fifteen years ago] [...]
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