[cc-community] DeviantART does the CC thing

Mike Linksvayer ml at creativecommons.org
Thu Jul 19 17:27:12 EDT 2007


On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 20:53 -0500, Terry Hancock wrote:
> I recently joined "DeviantART", which is an inclusive online art
> posting/sharing site. I was pleasantly surprised to find that they
> support all six standard CC licenses via a standard form interface. I
> didn't recall seeing them mentioned here (though maybe I just missed
> them or it was posted a long time ago), so I thought maybe I should.
> 
> I've posted a few things under By-SA at:
> 
> http://digitante.deviantart.com/
> 
> I've got about a 20 year backlog of never-before-published artwork that
> I'll be posting by-and-by. So this is kind of fun.
> 
> They apparently also have some kind of system for selling prints of your
> work. I'm skeptical of the value of such a thing, and I don't
> immediately imagine I'll be using it, but it might be worth checking out
> for a more serious/professional artist than myself.
> 
> Also, there appears not to be much limit on the type of file you can
> post, so long as you provide a JPG, GIF, or PNG "preview" image. I've
> already tried uploading an SVG.

That's great.  I wish they provided a way to search/browse by license.
Google works to an extent, though I don't think they've indexed your
pages yet.

http://www.google.com/search?as_sitesearch=deviantart.com&as_rights=%28cc_publicdomain%7Ccc_attribute%7Ccc_sharealike%7Ccc_noncommercial%7Ccc_nonderived%29


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