deviantART

DeviantART is a company with the legal form LLC, which offers registered users the opportunity to publish their own works. Many of these works can be ordered in printed form in the integrated shop and therefore has no membership fee is required.

The company was founded on August 7, 2000 by Scott Jarkoff and Matt Stephens; CEO Angelo Sotira is. That's a company behind the offer, however, was until 2003 known as the website presents itself as a community.

Offer

Basically any digitizable form of art to be published, with an emphasis on the photograph and digital photo manipulation. Other categories dealing with areas of traditional painting and drawing, anime, flash animation, vector, 3D, Film and pixel art, poetry, prose and stock photos.

A finished work is referred to in the terminology of the page as a deviation, while designs are known as Scrap.

Functions

Beyond the mere dissemination of art, users of the website, also known as Deviant can (English: different, of the Alternative / ) are called communicate in various ways, uA with a bulletin board, an internal e- mail system and, on their homepage.

Another forum focuses on proposals made by the user which are included under certain circumstances in the next version of the platform, so that users have control over the design of the page.

Chargeable services

Paid subscribers receive additional convenience functions.

Copyright and licensing issues

There is no automatic check for potential copyright infringement and violations of the Creative Commons license conditions when a work of art on deviantArt is uploaded, such problems can go unnoticed until they are reported by the users. However, there is a method to report potential violations of copyright and license administrators. Some members have also been used victims of copyright violations by sellers, the artworks illegally on products and printing.