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Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M

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Re: Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M

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Post by reiichiroh »

NM-Super wrote: post #109
mcjiggerlog wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are some other art communities? I've been looking for a decent alternative for a while

People typically use Tumblr at this point. It's not designed for art, and it has issues with big images, but it has a fairly active community, so people use it. There's also niche sites, like FA for furries and various boorus for anime fans. There's also a semi-active twitter artist community, although 90% of those people also post elsewhere. Shameless plug: I've been stealth-working on an art site for several years,…

ArtStation seems to be popular.

Re: Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M

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Post by chrisper »

tannhaeuser wrote: post #42

Well I can say wix.com definitely isn't going to fly in Germany (eg. for the same reason that Mitsubishi's "Pajero" vehicle isn't marketed under that name in latin/US America and Spain) [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Pajero

Well, a city called Fucking (even though it is in Austria) exists. So wix.com can't be that bad ;)

Re: Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M

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Post by HeyItsShuga »

buro9 wrote: post #70
blackhole wrote: post #10

One potentially alarming sentence in this article is "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." Exactly what do they mean by that? Will it be opt-in? Will it only cover art that's already under Creative Commons? Will be it all Creative Commons? Does a Wix site count as commercial use? I can't i…

https://about.deviantart.com/policy/submission/ 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…

This line is pretty common in ToC's as far as I know (I'm no lawyer). It allows them to show the images on the site and in advertising. Nothing too uncommon, and most of it's needed to make the site work.

Re: Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M

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Post by throwaway729 »

dahart wrote: post #80
buro9 wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://about.deviantart.com/policy/submission/ 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…

I'm no lawyer, but it looks like that language grants the DeviantArt corporation rights to use submissions, which they need in order to provide basic search as well as marketing. It would be a different thing to grant Wix users the right to take someone's work over to their own sites, I speculate that would require an extension or transfer of copy rights in addition to the quoted policy. I'd wait and see, I'd expect…

> I'd expect that Wix won't just lay claim to all submissions without asking for permission or remunerating artists who's works are sold.

If buro9's reading of the user agreement was right, those artists' work was just sold. For 35M.

Re: Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M

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Post by Angostura »

abledon wrote: post #66
minimaxir wrote: post #4

Yesterday, coincidentally, there was a surprisingly silly and heated discussion in a large Facebook group about whether a person who specializes in Wix can be considered a "web developer." ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/hackathonhackers/permalink/1... ) Hacker News is biased toward DIYing websites from scratch, but WYSIWYG builders like WIx are very important for those who aren't tech-savvy. DeviantArt, in a world…

Whenever someone asks me advice on building a website, I just say "Wix", unless they are willing to spend 10,000$ or more paying a quality developer to do a custom and probably unnecessary build.

I always used to say Weebly - and I've helped quite a few friends and family build little brochure sites. The big change with a new version a couple of years ago made less enthusiastic, though I haven't looked at Wix yet.

Re: Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M

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Post by grahamo »

This seems, like most things, it could be good or bad. Wix could choose to launch a Graphicriver / Canva / Adobe Stock type add-on that could help artists monetize their work. Or they could straight up license the work and pocket the money via some legal mumbo jumbo. Hopefully it is opt-in and the first case.

Re: Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M

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Post by sotojuan »

kepano wrote: post #53
neom wrote: post #8

From 2001-2007 I worked on helping build the community at dA. Had such an interesting and unique childhood and teenage years due to deviantART (and IRC). I owe everyone from that time a huge thank you for helping me become who I am today. It lost all it's magic (for me) when Scott and Eric Kolb left. Angelo is an absolutely amazing guy and I really really admire him but it was pretty sad to watch the community die. F…

I was there from 2000-2006 and feel the exact same. I grew up on deviantART. All my friends were there. It opened my eyes to many forms of creativity and I may have never become a designer or entrepreneur without it. At the risk of embarrassing myself, here's what I was up to from ages 15-20: http://a-t-o-m-i-c.deviantart.com/

The 00s decade in general seems to have been the high point for small/idependent/hobby-based online communities in general.

Re: Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M

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Post by Keyframe »

kepano wrote: post #53
neom wrote: post #8

From 2001-2007 I worked on helping build the community at dA. Had such an interesting and unique childhood and teenage years due to deviantART (and IRC). I owe everyone from that time a huge thank you for helping me become who I am today. It lost all it's magic (for me) when Scott and Eric Kolb left. Angelo is an absolutely amazing guy and I really really admire him but it was pretty sad to watch the community die. F…

I was there from 2000-2006 and feel the exact same. I grew up on deviantART. All my friends were there. It opened my eyes to many forms of creativity and I may have never become a designer or entrepreneur without it. At the risk of embarrassing myself, here's what I was up to from ages 15-20: http://a-t-o-m-i-c.deviantart.com/

Damn, I forgot I even had an account there for a brief time. 15 years or so, damn. I think even the email provider I had account with went bust. No way to recover the account. http://keyframe.deviantart.com/gallery/ here's my embarrassment in support to you! Real edgy, I was.
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