DeviantArt Warning About Copyrights

[twowolves80]

So, this is a heads-up to any artists in this community who cross-post on deviantArt.

They literally do not care that a member of theirs is stealing artwork off the site and reposting online across multiple platforms without permission, and modifying it in a defamatory fashion, and trotted out their BS-specialist to massage my emotions while assuring me all is fine.

I have the entire email chain (including the DMCA notice), and the member-pirate is still active on that site. I even made a meme.

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So if anyone here cross-posts there, be very stringent and litigious about your copyrights because getting slapped upside the board of executives with a civil suit for aiding and abetting copyright theft is the only thing dA will understand.

[joaodafi]

Or, like me just don't use dA

[twowolves80]

I plan on leaving the site. I just have to port everything over. Are there any good sites you'd recommend?

[Falconius]

As far as I can tell form their front page, DA is mostly just AI generated p--n. It's not a site that respects art or artists, or even humanity for that matter, and never will be.

[twowolves80]

There's still a few great artists on there, and some people doing really cool stuff with digital art on Wacoms and the like, but I need something a bit more professional at this point.

[Falconius]

Artstation just had a user meltdown over AI stuff, but it was/maybe-still-is a pretty great place (although the aforementioned rebellion against AI saw a huge user drop so the community is way less now). Artgram is a splinter site that was formed from users who left Artstation and looks quite promising, and forbids AI as well as actively fights against AI exploitation. Artstation has a few advantages, like a marketplace already existing (artgram plans on having one soon), but perhaps more importantly a lot of tutorials available (https://www.artstation.com/learning). There was also another one or two that splintered off but I don't know their names.

https://www.artstation.com/
https://www.artgram.co/

[twowolves80]

Those sites are cool, and will be useful once I start doing commissions. That's a year or two off at this rate.

Are there are any sites for simple archiving like dA is? There is no impetus on dA to monetize your artwork, if all you wish to do is showcase fan art to highlight the techniques and ability. Artstation (which I'm on) pushes you to market your art work, and I have nothing suitable for marketing at this point because all I'm doing is digitizing hand-drawn and written material for free use once it's complete (ETA: TBD).