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DEVIANTART PRESENTATTİONINTRODUCTION * Establishment phase• “Deviantart.com” is home to the largest online art community in the world, a

site offers the opportunity to display artworks• It has over 11 million members• was established in April 2000• main executive staff member and CEO Angelo Sotira which has a account on

DeviantArt called as 'Spyed ', Scott Jarkoff (jark) and a founding team consists of CTO Andrew McCann , Chris Bolt ,Chris Wright and a unknown person described as 'Spot' on DeviantArt

• the first idea owner Scott Jarkoff with the financial and administrative provider Angelo Sotira

• administrative provider Angelo Sotira. Matthew Stephens is hired later as Consultant to the company

• created under the name of Dmusic Company• Dmusic first sold to the Lynx Technology Group

* Angelo Sotira• Angelo Sotira is a Greek• After his high school graduation in Greece came to the United States of

America

• Sotira is the 5th richest Internet rich after with $75 M assets after Chad Hurley (YouTube) under the scale of 30 years old age

* Peculiarities of the site• consists of large variety of art category such as traditional art, literature,

digital art, photography, Flash, filmmaking and with others• downloadable tutorials and stock photography• to display, share, and sell their art works• Deviantart offers two types of memberships described as Premium

Membership and the free one• Premium Memberships offers discount on sharing sales of artworks between

artists and Deviantart Inc. Premium members earn much than basic users due to the share of selling the artworks with the company, because Deviantart gives less commission from premium members

• it let to the artist earn %50 of sales of his artwork while for free-users it is %20.

• Pre. users can give, receive works or comment, also they can put their portfolios to Journal Polls (similar with Facebook wall) which is either provided for free-users

• As of January 8, 2005, deviantART had over the 5 million member and has over 18million 'deviation' annually while today number of the members of Deviantart has reached over 11 million and deviation becomes the number around 25-30 million.

INFORMATION on CAPITAL *Dmusic, Lynex Technology Group, Deviantart• In 1997 Angelo Sotira founded a company called Dimension Music which

later renamed as Dmusic• They were keen on skinning applications as well they've established very first

site customize.org first resided at Dmusic's servers later sold to a company called Rare Medium

• Sotira decided to sell Dmusic, and acquiered by a company called Lynex Technology Group run by very famous person Micheal Ovitz

• Sotira'd kept working on Dmusic and keep continue to acquire little web companies including a company called Cybertropix

• Cybertropix was an Mp3 releasing site run by Scott Jarkoff whom later becomes one of the co-founders of DeviantArt. Jarkoff worked for either Cybertropix and Dmusic at the time and first offered to commit a site called Screenphuck.com with interesting features but still was quite similar to Customize.org. And after, not so long, Jarkoff offered an idea of art-skinning website which was first meant to be deviate.com but was taken so they'd chosen deviantart.com.

• DeviantArt had a great potential but still expenditures was higher. Dmusic was getting improved and taking big steps also.

• Eventually, big worldwide known financial incident has blown up in the area of web business which called 'dot com bump', happened on Nasdaq and affected every internet company in terms of enormous amounts. Sotira say about those days '' Companies in the digital music space were going out of business left and right and with every competitor around us filing for bankruptcy.’’

• Dmusic and its 'baby' Deviantart stopped standing to it and loosed this war against the finance bubble burst also

• a lawsuit emerged between Lynex Technology and Dmusic due to decide on share quotes. Deviantart was appearing to be belonged to Lynex Tech at the time by some gaps (which eventually corrected after) in terms of law rules

• Deviantart has created it found itself in a very bad situation. However they've found a way proceed and resulted with a amicable agreement. According to that they had the rights to sell Dmusic and Deviantart

• Tricky part of this agreement was it was given 3 days to sell or share DeviantArt

• Dmusic sold to Larry Feldman and the president of the company became Michelle Robertson who is already from a high-tech entrepreneur family

• Deviantart sold to the Andrew McCann and Ian Lyman. they were also in entertainment business.

*General income of DeviantArt

• can be count as a art gallery and the users are renters• earns most of its income from sales of artworks • you have a free account it's a obligatory to present %80 of the sales

to DeviantArt• you are a Premium Member you have to give %50 of the sale of your

artwork directly to the Deviantart.

• $4.95 billed every month • $7.95 billed every 3 months (you save 46%) • $7.95 pre-paid 3 month membership (you save 46%) • $29.95 pre-paid 12 month membership (you save 50%)

WORLD TOUR

• Everyone at the Deviantart HQ, and crew members are in every corner of the world

• $Heidi (Director of Marketing) and $spyed (Angelo Sotira which is co-founder and CEO) taking to globe on Deviantart's first ever World Tour

• The tour offers all deviants able to hang out and chat with Deviantart crew $admins to share comments ask questions, make suggestions or just have good time with like minded people

• In each city, they decided to place which is meeting point named DeviantartMEETs at the local art museums, galleries, or parks

• They came to visit Istanbul 30th May Sultan Ahmed Mosque courtyard on Saturday @2.00PM. $Heidi and $Spyed came to met deviants.

CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE

• On November 14, 2006, Deviantart has offered to users submit their works under Creative Common license to protect deviants

• ''CC'' license means, giving the artists right to choose how their works can be used• “CC” prevents to copy without permission• The creative commons license enables people to easily change their copyright

terms from the default of all rights reserved *Creative Commons Infringement Points:• Placing a photograph or creative work online without proper permission.• Using a creative work commercially• Adapting a creative work of one medium to another, such as making a book into a

movie or a photograph into a painting.• Modifying or editing a creative work without proper permission. DeviantART

respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects users of the Service to do the same, and deviantart has utilized CC licenses in a variety of instances throughout their digital services. DeviantART does not claim ownership rights in members’ content. For the sole purpose of enabling us to make member content available through the service, members grant to deviantART a non

• exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce, distribute, re-build, store, prepare derivative works based on, and publicly display and perform member content.

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