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- detritus
I doubt many of you here use this, but just so you know if you do:
Wix has just acquired DeviantArt for $36M. Bully for them!
However, it looks like a part of the deal is that Wix will allow content uploaded to and hosted on DeviantArt over the years to be used by their web-building customers in their own sites = some schmo building a site for their company can use all your assets without your permission or without paying you. Bummer!
This might not come to pass, but if this at all affects you, you might want to check your ToS.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/2…
"Second, Wix will open up DeviantArt’s repository of art and creative community to the Wix platform, giving Wix’s users access to that work to use in their own site building."
https://about.deviantart.com/pol…
3. License To Use Artist Materials. As and when Artist Materials are uploaded to the DeviantArt Site(s), Artist grants to DeviantArt a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to do the following things during the Term:
a) to prepare and encode Artist Materials or any part of them for digital or analog transmission, manipulation and exhibition in any format and by any means now known or not yet known or invented;
b) to display, copy, reproduce, exhibit, publicly perform, broadcast, rebroadcast, transmit, retransmit, distribute through any electronic means (including analog and digital) or other means, and electronically or otherwise publish any or all of the Artist Materials, including any part of them, and to includethem in compilations for publication, by any and all means and media now known or not yet known or invented ;
c) to modify, adapt, change or otherwise alter the Artist Materials (e.g., change the size) and use the Artist Materials as describedin Section 3(b);
- detritus1
"If you're not paying - you're the product".
The modern [sub-] social internet's a big crock of shit, imho.
- sted0
The only thing a DeviantArt user can do is to delete their content, shut their account, and leave the site.
The policies only apply for the "Term" in which a user exists and the art exists on the platform.
- < yes, i forgot to mention that!detritus
- haha, from the HN comments, which I assume you've seen: "Website builder Wix acquires terrible amateur hentai repository DeviantArt for a $36M loss" :Ddetritus
- Ahaha yes :)) I still can't understand what's the business in this for wix unless they want to use their system to create artist portfolios for example.sted
- DAs userbase and pv numbers are hughested
- timemachine0
time to start closing my deviant art account.
- it would be worth keeping an eye on things first — the above might not come to pass exactly.. but it looks like that's the intention.detritus
- dopepope0
Kinda shitty. I suppose people can upload & re-upload their work with watermarks on it, but I always hated doing that. Pretty much defeats the purpose of putting any effort into your art, to then slap a hideous water mark on it, but it would deter theft of usage. Plus, for users with huge back logs of work, re-uploading art would be a full time job. Such a scummy move.