28 July 2023--
USPTO--1330PDT:
The process for filing a trademark extension was straightforward and manageable. The most convenient part of the sequence of pages was not to change anything if not necessary, which many times in a long application can create errors that cannot be corrected. Just a matter of hitting the continue button unless flagged, which did not happen. Beyond the submission and payment, the pdf download is very useful to keep track of where the extension is going for the next required steps. Thank you for making the extension process understood without having to take additional measures.
LAKE SWIM--0730PDT:
As for the incredibly complicated process to get a 1 minute--involving just about ever editing item available: 3D Paint, Paint, Drive to download files, MS Video Editor, MS Clipchamp and was using Audacity to convert the MP3 recordings to .WAV, but that's now over with as going through the 3rd-part scammers is history, extinct.Originally, the project was to use cover songs through distributors to pay-per-stream/download but not only not cot effective, but unrealistic. A decision had to be made whether to sell at those sites and make $5 a year or just go ahead and upload for access by the public, the latter is the best approach. The reason is simple: all the other approaches eventually lead to a jinxed system, crashing, unavailable, and the opportunity to break the internet. Forget thousands of views, it's the system that needs develped more, and that's the strategy now. Theinternety has turned to the method of choice for swindlers and crooks, making promises that amount to nothing at best, legal troubles at worst, neither is acceptable. Aimed to extort money from socially immoble obscure artists, seeking to earn a place in the talent hierarchy that's loaded against them, the process turnms to perfecting the best approach, and not necessarily the content itself.
Since thee is already availability of MP3 files, most of which are 2-3 minutes in length, the first part of the new system is to edit them down to one minute. For that matter, the old MP4 files that took forever to develop, can also be used by separating the audio from the video. A number of various programs, online, are available to edit the files down, but MS Clipchamp provides many of the poor-man functions that are available through yet another exorbitant, scammer promising to do all of that for a cost, monthly, with a contract that has to be paid in full if the decision is made to back out of the deal. Limits may be set on the free programs, as is the case for the number of Youtube uploads allowed in a 24-hour period.
27 July 2023
UPLOAD & MORE UPLOAD--
Back to Youtube, all the other venues, distributors are scams--pay $30K for 250K streams-downloads, and at a penny return for most of the swinefurt distributor sites, after going through the 3rd-party fee of $100, is $1000. Just places to send the money with aphony agenda. What's revealng about the cover son scam biz is that uploading the same cover song to Youtube, there's a check to see if there's a copyright infringement. In most cases, there isn't; so where's the so-called royalty fees going? Into the pockets of the third-party scammers.
A visit to the Barnes & Noble self-publishing site resulted in the deletion of all those old stories, sripts that never sold one download. Jinxed. New material needs to be constantly added and the price see a radical drop from $10 a download, to $1. That will happen in due time.
The initial uploads to Youtube was with the basic system of two files to Tunes to Tube, which leaves a watermark, but converts a single cover image and an audio file to an MP4; which is then uploade to the channel. That method was soon abandoned as it did not take into the aspect ratio of the innovative method that now exists on the video platform, of "shorts." These are under 1 minute in length and, at first there appeared to be a megabyte limit on the upload, but recently, greater MBs have been uploaded to shorts with success.
Continue with content: Youtube, writing, nook e-pub, and online store reopened Shopify, but not necessarilyt o sell, since all of this is in development, to see what works and what doesn't.