DeviantArt, historically stylized as deviantART, is an American online art community that features artwork, videography, and photography, launched on August 7, 2000, by Angelo Sotira, Scott Jarkoff, and Matthew Stephens among others.
The Hollywood Palladium while hosting the first deviantART Summit
World Tour meet in Toronto, Ontario in 2007
Creative Commons (CC) is an American non-profit organization and international network devoted to educational access and expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright licenses, known as Creative Commons licenses, free of charge to the public. These licenses allow authors of creative works to communicate which rights they reserve and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators. An easy-to-understand one-page explanation of rights, with associated visual symbols, explains the specifics of each Creative Commons license. Content owners still maintain their copyright, but Creative Commons licenses give standard releases that replace the individual negotiations for specific rights between copyright owner (licensor) and licensee, that are necessary under an "all rights reserved" copyright management.
Lawrence Lessig (January 2008)
Creative Commons Japan Seminar, Tokyo (2007)
A sign in a pub in Granada notifies customers that the music they are listening to is freely distributable under a Creative Commons license.
Creative Commons guiding the contributors. This image is a derivative work of Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix.
