*jdam

Interesting job, another way to enjoy art I suppose! Ever had any interesting cases?

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"It's Art" is the best excuse in the world!

Well, I love my job and that can be hard to find. And it is a real joy to work with creative people and to help them protect their own work and go after those who knock it off. Interesting cases....I have sued Wal Mart for ripping off a photographer and lots of other companies for ripping off artists. I negotiate licensing deals and work on deals involving films, music, books, art, and all kinds of creative expression.

Yeah, I get some pretty interesting cases.

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Art and entertainment attorney in US

Cool, you have satisfied my curiosity

Are you just an observer on dA then?

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"It's Art" is the best excuse in the world!

Pretty much. I find it an incredible place full of creativity. There sure is a lot to observe.

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Art and entertainment attorney in US

What is your "professional" view of a site like Deviant Art? Do you see it as a place that works to support what you uphold daily? Or is it a place where people undermine the laws and rip each other off daily? I've always been curious how someone in your line of work would see this site.

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Interesting question. I have known about DA for a long time but only joined and really started looking around recently. So much here is very new to me and I am sure I dont get or see everything going on. In general, I think this is a very good community for reinforcing and promoting creative expression. Of course, the concept of intellectual property has always been about placing boundaries around creative expression and the exploitation of it, while attempting to recognize and balance the simple fact that there will always be inspiration, reference material and derivative works.

I am still learning about how people share and use each others works here, so my opinion may change in the future. As long as the terms are clear and everyone knows what they are, I think DA is doing something positive for people who want to create and express themselves in a public manner in communication with others doing the same thing. The stock and sharing are great because they foster interactive and mutual and shared creation. That is great.

I dont see it as a place where people undermine the laws and rip each other off daily, although I understand that is very common. But again, I am still getting experience here. What do you think?

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Art and entertainment attorney in US

Sorry for taking so long to reply!
Thank you for taking the time to both answer my question and give it such a thoughtful reply. As far as "getting" or seeing everything that goes on on here. Blah! I don't get much that goes on here And I'm a "submissions admin" for a club, I submit my own photography, writings/rambling experiments, edits of photos from modeling for my close friend ~NihilusParadox, occasionally an experiment w/ stock images, and snaps taken by my fiance. No one has thus far accused me of rip-off, I haven't needed to do the same, and I have given no one the reason to do this.
I have tho, come across several instances of blatant rip-off. People posting images as their own. (not w/out credit, just claiming to have been the creator when they weren't) Actually, I think the biggest problem is not internal, rather it is folks taking images and posting them in their blogs/myspace ect. w/out permission from the creators. Very disturbing. I do think that DA has set up some very nice ways to curtail this, and I believe that by having these options the "artists" can protect them selves. Basically, in most of the rip-off occurances I think the artist was just as at fault by not limiting the accessibility of their image. (allowing downloads, blog access, mobile access, ect.) Aah! I'm rambling....
I'm glad you like this site. I think the people using it need a bit more common sense is all.
I recently did an experiment in how well the stock was set up. It was ok. There is an abundance of stock on here, some very creative, and some very professional, and some neither. Same goes for those posting their stock. Many of them insist on silly conditions suck as linking specifically (not to the stock itself but to the account page, or vice versa.) Also there is the whole thing of collecting and using stock. The process of collecting and citing stock does not follow a strict form in the way that collecting sources for writing a paper does. I found that in my collecting one can not simply down load all the images they would like to use and then go back latter to link to the image/creator. Many stock images have vague file names that show no resemblance to the actual title or creator's name. You have to slog through the image search and attempt to recreate the initial image hunt. Even then, since there is no such thing as searching based on user name here, it can be near impossible. I lost one image and then found the creator. They appeared to have deleted/removed the image from the account! How do you credit something that no longer exists?

Maybe I'm wrong for pointing out the few flaws in an otherwise dang good system...? I dunno!
Well ne-ways thanks again for your 2 cents, and for reading mine!

*bluenozdkitty

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"But in our sleep,
there’s an order."
~Lansing Dreiden

Since you seem to know a lot about copyright law, I dare say maybe DA should hire you to be on the policy violations staff in regards to art theft. The 'virtual cubed' who's currently the head of that department doesn't do shit about art theft half the time.

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They have the resources but can't be arsed to use them.

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