<story><title>Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/23/website-builder-wix-acquires-art-community-deviantart-for-36m/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>buro9</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;about.deviantart.com&amp;#x2F;policy&amp;#x2F;submission&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;about.deviantart.com&amp;#x2F;policy&amp;#x2F;submission&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    3. License To Use Artist Materials. As and when Artist Materials are
       uploaded to the DeviantArt Site(s), Artist grants to DeviantArt a
       worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to do the following
       things during the Term:
       a) to prepare and encode Artist Materials or any part of them for
          digital or analog transmission, manipulation and exhibition in
          any format and by any means now known or not yet known or
          invented;
       b) to display, copy, reproduce, exhibit, publicly perform,
          broadcast, rebroadcast, transmit, retransmit, distribute through
          any electronic means (including analog and digital) or other
          means, and electronically or otherwise publish any or all of
          the Artist Materials, including any part of them, and to include
          them in compilations for publication, by any and all means and
          media now known or not yet known or invented ;
       c) to modify, adapt, change or otherwise alter the Artist Materials
          (e.g., change the size) and use the Artist Materials as described
          in Section 3(b); and ...

&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
The only thing a DeviantArt user can do is to delete their content, shut their account, and leave the site.&lt;p&gt;The policies only apply for the &amp;quot;Term&amp;quot; in which a user exists and the art exists on the platform.</text></item><item><author>blackhole</author><text>One potentially alarming sentence in this article is &amp;quot;Wix will open up DeviantArt’s repository of art and creative community to the Wix platform, giving Wix’s users access to that work to use in their own site building.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Exactly what do they mean by that? Will it be opt-in? Will it only cover art that&amp;#x27;s already under Creative Commons? Will be it all Creative Commons? Does a Wix site count as commercial use? I can&amp;#x27;t imagine people would be very happy about their art suddenly being available for use elsewhere without their consent.&lt;p&gt;Hopefully, this is much ado about nothing, and Wix won&amp;#x27;t do anything terrible, but we&amp;#x27;ve seen technology companies do stupid things before. At the very least, it would be nice if they elaborated on their plans regarding this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pdpi</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  a) We can re-encode your images, to whatever format
     we need to make the website work.
  b) We are allowed to display the pictures online.
     If something happens and the internet stops existing,
     we&amp;#x27;ll still be allowed to show people pictures where
     we go after the web. We are also allowed to display
     pictures not only by themselves but also as part of
     a gallery. E.g. in search results.
  c) We&amp;#x27;re allowed to resize, convert to grayscale, etc
     so that galleries, search results, etc, all work
     the way a modern website is expected to.
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You need all those rights to be able to operate DeviantArt. You really don&amp;#x27;t want the licence to become the limiting factor when you implement a new feature on the website, so you need to be quite broad.</text></comment>
<story><title>Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/23/website-builder-wix-acquires-art-community-deviantart-for-36m/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>buro9</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;about.deviantart.com&amp;#x2F;policy&amp;#x2F;submission&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;about.deviantart.com&amp;#x2F;policy&amp;#x2F;submission&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    3. License To Use Artist Materials. As and when Artist Materials are
       uploaded to the DeviantArt Site(s), Artist grants to DeviantArt a
       worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to do the following
       things during the Term:
       a) to prepare and encode Artist Materials or any part of them for
          digital or analog transmission, manipulation and exhibition in
          any format and by any means now known or not yet known or
          invented;
       b) to display, copy, reproduce, exhibit, publicly perform,
          broadcast, rebroadcast, transmit, retransmit, distribute through
          any electronic means (including analog and digital) or other
          means, and electronically or otherwise publish any or all of
          the Artist Materials, including any part of them, and to include
          them in compilations for publication, by any and all means and
          media now known or not yet known or invented ;
       c) to modify, adapt, change or otherwise alter the Artist Materials
          (e.g., change the size) and use the Artist Materials as described
          in Section 3(b); and ...

&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
The only thing a DeviantArt user can do is to delete their content, shut their account, and leave the site.&lt;p&gt;The policies only apply for the &amp;quot;Term&amp;quot; in which a user exists and the art exists on the platform.</text></item><item><author>blackhole</author><text>One potentially alarming sentence in this article is &amp;quot;Wix will open up DeviantArt’s repository of art and creative community to the Wix platform, giving Wix’s users access to that work to use in their own site building.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Exactly what do they mean by that? Will it be opt-in? Will it only cover art that&amp;#x27;s already under Creative Commons? Will be it all Creative Commons? Does a Wix site count as commercial use? I can&amp;#x27;t imagine people would be very happy about their art suddenly being available for use elsewhere without their consent.&lt;p&gt;Hopefully, this is much ado about nothing, and Wix won&amp;#x27;t do anything terrible, but we&amp;#x27;ve seen technology companies do stupid things before. At the very least, it would be nice if they elaborated on their plans regarding this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dahart</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m no lawyer, but it looks like that language grants the DeviantArt corporation rights to use submissions, which they need in order to provide basic search as well as marketing.&lt;p&gt;It would be a different thing to grant Wix users the right to take someone&amp;#x27;s work over to their own sites, I speculate that would require an extension or transfer of copy rights in addition to the quoted policy.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d wait and see, I&amp;#x27;d expect that Wix won&amp;#x27;t just lay claim to all submissions without asking for permission or remunerating artists who&amp;#x27;s works are sold.</text></comment>