DeviantArt…
So I finally broke down and got a Deviant Art page going.
I’m adding some paintings as I go.
Feel free to link to me if you have an account.
Also…any advice on what to DO with a Deviant Art account? Is it just a place to put up your art?
And for those who like Myspace…
http://www.myspace.com/dreamlandchronicles
🙂
apart from posting your own art, its great to just go on the front page and click on something that catches yer eye. then you can favorite stuff, comment, and eventually people will notice you and you can site back and enjoy the fame. XD
or somethin like that. its really up to you what you do with your time on dA.
I’d be careful at DA. Read through their legal documents on the site. There’s been more than a few times they(DeviantArt) used an artist’s work without permission resulting in monetary gain for themselves, and the artist is unable to do anything due to agreement that’s made when you sign up and host your work on their servers.
although I think you can stop that, by adding a creative commons licence to your submissions. I think tha works.
Read through their Terms and Conditions… it basically says that they own anything and everything you post, which is why I started using Flickr instead…
uh..I’m not sure what the others are talking about, DA has made it quite clear they may use art posted at the site to advertise and that’s about it, in no way do they claim ownership of the art posted there. Otherwise DeviantArt is a great place to find art and network and such.
Thats not true. If you read DA’s TOS it says and I Quote:
“deviantART does not claim ownership rights in Your Content. For the sole purpose of enabling us to make your Content available through the Service,
you grant to deviantART a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce, distribute, re-format, store, prepare derivative works based on, and publicly display and perform Your Content.
Please note that when you upload Content, you allow third parties to copy, distribute and display your Content.”
That means by uploading your work there you are giving them the rights, permission to do so or not, to do WHATEVER they want with YOUR work! They try to cover it up with the last sentence. Even if the last bit is true YOU can still tack action if someone posts the work in a away you don’t approve of, DA makes it so you have no say what so ever.
ROYALTY FREE – A term often used in photography CD collections or on CD collections of images. May also refer to the purchase of images from online sources. That means although they can not claim they own the works posted on their site , or sell it in anyway, they are given full rights to do whatever they wish to the work you posted, regardless if you want them to or not, as many times as they want, and as LONG as they want. Rather editing it, cropping it down, and using it in whatever content they wish. You “sale” your rights on the work to DA when you upload it.
Plus they like to throw our rights out the window! I have had my fair share of art thieves taking my art, croping it, recoloring over it, and out right tracing it. And most my friends have as well. What does DA do when the thives are reported? Rarly anything if at all! And when they do? The MOST I have seen them do is change the description on the stolen works to read ‘Inspired by”. Like with what happened to one of my own works that a blind person could see was just a croped and resized version of one of my works.
I quit DA a long time ago and moved to SA. At least there Art Thives (some of the same) get punished for what they do. That thief that cropped and resized one of my works? BANNED for it on SA, when on DA he is still going strong with stolen works from a number of artists.
Well done to think of soihmetng like that
re the Johnny Depp thing, I think the sequel is coming out soon (like within the amount of time this mag will be on the rack). I saw a piece on Keira Knightley last night on Much.Robyn
Two years ago, I decided to live green, and one thing that I enjoyed the most is the donating part. The happiness that I feel every time I see someone with a very grateful smile is just priceless.