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If youre going to be hosting your graphics that use renders never host them on Deviantart. I made that mistake and some p***k reported me saying that I was plagerizing because the FREE renders that I was using.

What a b*****d. How can you get reported over that? There's nothing in dA Terms that says you can use free renders. I have art in my dA account that uses renders and if some buttmunch reports me, I'll back myself up with that too.

Is there a way you can talk to an admin on dA about it? That's just not right.

-_- I don't think I like dA anymore. Banning people for no reason.
FEE! I spit on them.

It's still bull to me. It's not like the renders are copyrighted and you illegally stole them from someone without permission. They are there for us to USE.

when you upload art to them youre basically giving them legal rights to your art. They are free to distribute it and sell it to any 3rd party they think neccessary.

well im not sure if that matters in the upload terms you are relinquishing it.


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

d) the right to sublicense to any other person or company any of the licensed rights in the Artist Materials, or any part of them, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

e) Artist acknowledges that Artist will not have any right, title, or interest in any other materials with which Artist Materials may be combined or into which all or any portion of Artist Materials may be incorporated.

f) During the Term, deviantART's licenses under this Agreement include the right to use any part of the Artist Materials in the promotion, advertising or marketing of the DeviantART Sites.

g) As used in this Agreement, the term "Artist Materials" means any content uploaded to the deviantART Site(s) which may include without limitation Artist's name(s) (including professional names), trademarks, trade names, likenesses, photographs, biographical materials, artwork, liner notes, and other graphical or textual materials and any and all "skins," computer-generated images or other artwork or images that Artist submits to deviantART.


http://about.deviantart.com/policy/submission/

because you except the their terms when you make the account.

There has been controversy over the terms because many people say that it is too complex for most to understand and that with all that law terms people just give up and click accept. And if you do read it then youll see that most of it is unnessecarily complex, and most of it falls for their favor.