Pricing for large institutions?

Eva

Hi there,

I have been asked to instruct someone else in a larger institution in the use of Isadora for executing my project. I am now in dialog about royalties etc. and in this dialog they also ask about the programme.
My question is now, how is it with playing in those places, do they just need a normal license? Can they do it without, if I send them the file? Or how is that?

If you btw. have some things to be aware of or tips in these situations, that is really nice also. I have my own material in there as a part of it and I need to figure out how to actually get paid for this and not just sell all my hard work for nothing, since they found out the product is good and they want to reuse it for further productions without me executing it.
Thank you!

All the best
Eva

Woland

@eva said:

I need to figure out how to actually get paid for this and not just sell all my hard work for nothing, since they found out the product is good and they want to reuse it for further productions without me executing it.

One thing that might be helpful is that you can password lock Isadora files by going to File > Add Password Protection.

By locking it so that only the Control Panel can be accessed, you prevent your programming from being modified or copy-pasted into other projects you didn't sign off on.

With a password-locked document, you can also put a killswitch into your patch like:

Using the Clock and Comparator actors to disable something in the patch past a certain date
Using the Get/Post URL Text actor feeding into Text Comparator actor to check a specific URL for a response that determines whether or not to allow the patch to function (so you can remotely disable and re-enable the patch whenever you'd like by changing the information the Get/Post URL Text actor gets back in the response)

Woland

@eva said:

My question is now, how is it with playing in those places, do they just need a normal license?

Academic institutions can apply for a 30% academic discount, but otherwise, yes, licenses work the same for them.

@eva said:

Can they do it without, if I send them the file? Or how is that?

Any Isadora file can be run without an Isadora license in demo mode; the only limitation is that they won't be able to save. That being the case, the answer to your question depends on whether your file is built in such a way that saving changes is important. For example, if you've got Controls in the Control Panel that let them tweak various parameters like the volume of Sound Players or the intensity of Projector actors, if they make adjustments like that without a license, they won't be able to save the changes, so those changes will be lost and the file will return to its original state when they close it. The end result of that situation would be that, without a license, they'd need to make the same changes again every time they re-open the file. If your file just runs as is without any way to adjust values, then yes, they could do everything they need without a an Isadora license.