DeviantArt is an online community for artists and photographers established in 2000. It has over 11 million members and 25-30 million pieces of original artwork. The site was founded by Scott Jarkoff and later acquired by Angelo Sotira. Sotira grew it and sold it after financial struggles. It now allows members to share artwork in categories and earn money from sales. In 2006, DeviantArt adopted Creative Commons licenses to protect artist copyrights. The site also holds real-world meetups of members in various global cities.

2. DEVIANTART PRESENTATION INTRODUCTION * Establishmentphase In April 2000 Staff member and CEO is Angelo Sotira (Spyed) Idea ownerwas Scott Jarkoff with the financial and administrative provider Angelo Sotira Matthew Stephens who mentioned as founder hired later as Consultant to the company. It has over 11 million members. Deviation becomes the number around 25-30 million

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4. * 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

5. * Characteristics of the site Deviantart has many categories to share, these are; traditional art, literature, digital art, photography, Flash, filmmaking and with others. Deviantart has downloadable tutorials and stock photography Deviantart offers two types of memberships described as Premium Membership and the free one. It let the artist to earn %50 of sales of his or her artwork while for free-users it is %20.

6. DeviantART users are worldwide. There is no central location for either the staff or the users; it really is an international endeavor.

8. INFORMATION on CAPITAL *Dmusic, Lynex Technology Group, Deviantart In 1997 Angelo Sotira founded a company called Dimension Music which later renamed as Dmusic Sotira decided to sell Dmusic, and acquired 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 run by Scott Jarkoff.

9. Cybertropix was an Mp3 releasing site. Jarkoff worked for either Cybertropix and Dmusic (Sotira) at the time and first offered to commit a site called Screenphuck.com with interesting features but still was quite similar to Customize.org. 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 were taking big steps.

10. Dmusic and its 'baby' Deviantart stopped standing to it and loosed this war against the finance bubble burst. As a result, a lawsuit emerged between Lynex Technology and Dmusic due to decide on share quotes Deviantart has created it, found itself in a very bad situation. However they've found a way to proceed and resulted with a amicable agreement.

11. 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 famous high-tech entrepreneur family. Deviantart sold to the Andrew McCann and Ian Lyman. they were also in entertainment business.

12. *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%)

13. WORLD TOUR Sydney, Singapore, Warsaw, Istanbul, Berlin, Paris, London, New York City, Toronto and Los Angeles 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.

16. 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

17. *CreativeCommonsInfringementPoints: 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.

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19. DEVIANTART SOURCES INTRODUCTION Articles of category ''DeviantArt community'' .Retrieved January, 2006, from www.syl.com website: http://www.syl.com/articles/online_matchmaking/virtual_communities_subcultures/deviantart_community/ Retrieved from Team Core: http://about.deviantart.com/ [page with no author] (21 December 2009)Deviantart. (n.d.). In Wikipilipinas. Retrieved March 24, 2009, http://en.wikipilipinas.org/index.php?title=DeviantArt DeviantArt. (n.d). In Wikipedia. Retrieved December 21, 2009, from edia.org/wiki/DeviantArtBlog.faunstudios. (2007, September 36). Deviantart: Design. Retrieved from http://blog.faunstudios.com/academia/virtual-clusters-creative-industries-in-the-digital-realm/ Retrieved from Angelo Sotira, Interviewed (2009, November 12) http://yokom.deviantart.com/art/Angelo-Sotira-Interviewed-14204533 Dennis, T. May 8th, 2009. 30 Inspiring web design layouts from DeviantArt. Retrieved December 21, 2009 from Six Revisions website: http://sixrevisions.com/design-showcase-inspiration/30-inspiring-web-design-layouts-from-deviantart

20. CAPITAL Blog.faunstudios. (2007, September 36). Deviantart: Design. Retrieved from http://blog.faunstudios.com/academia/virtual-clusters-creative-industries-in-the-digital-realm/ Retrieved from Angelo Sotira, Interviewed (2009, November 12) http://yokom.deviantart.com/art/Angelo-Sotira-Interviewed-14204533 Deviantart. (n.d.). In Wikipilipinas. Retrieved March 24, 2009, http://en.wikipilipinas.org/index.php?title=DeviantArt Dot-com bubble. (n.d.). In Wikipedia. Retrieved February 4, 2010, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot.com_bust COMMON CREATIVE LICENSE AND WORLD TOUR Creative commons. (n.d.). In Wikipedia. Retrieved February 4, 2010, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons What is cc: (2008, October 14). Retrieved February 28, 2010, from creative commons Official Site website: http://creativecommons.org/about/what-is-cc DeviantArt. (n.d). InWikipedia. RetrievedDecember 21, 2009, fromedia.org/wiki/DeviantArtRetrievedfromAbout Us: Terms of Service [page no author] (October 10 2003) fromdevaintartofficial site: http://about.deviantart.com/policy/service/ Deviantart. (n.d.). In Wikipilipinas. Retrieved March 24, 2009, http://en.wikipilipinas.org/index.php?title=DeviantArt

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