DEVIANTART PRESENTATION

INTRODUCTION

* Establishment phase• In April 2000

• Staff member and CEO is Angelo Sotira (Spyed)

• Idea owner was 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

Deviantart’s first design

* 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

* 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.

DeviantART users are worldwide.

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

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

*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

• 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.

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.

Account Creation

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