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DeviantArt provides a way for artists to opt out of AI art generators

DeviantArt, the Wix-owned artist community, today announced a new protection for creators to disallow art-generating AI systems from being developed using their artwork. An option on the site will all

Web3’s early promise for artists tainted by rampant stolen works and likenesses

Jillian C. York didn’t want to be a non-fungible token. A Berlin-based author and activist, York is also the director for International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. F

Cent, the platform that Jack Dorsey used to sell his first tweet as an NFT, raises $3M

Cent was founded in 2017 as an ad-free creator network that allows users to offer each other crypto rewards for good posts and comments — it’s like gifting awards on Reddit, but with Ether

Automattic’s bargain-bin Tumblr deal plugs right into the WordPress business model

Tumblr has been a millstone around the neck of its owners, first Yahoo and later Oath and Verizon Media, pretty much since it was acquired in 2013. They never found an answer to the question that new

Crunch Report | DeviantArt Acquired by Wix

DeviantArt gets acquired by Wix, AirMap raises $26 million, Airbnb buys Tilt, Google releases perspective for comment toxicity rating and more. All this on Crunch Report.

Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M

Wix.com has made another acquisition to build out the tools that it provides to users to build and administer websites: it has acquired DeviantArt, an online community for artists, designers and art/d

deviantART Makes Its Case For Administering The .Art Domain

Online artists’ community <a target="_blank" href="http://www.deviantart.com">deviantART</a> is hoping to <a target="_blank" href="http://heidi.deviantart.com/journal/deviantART-is-applying-to-manag

With 28M Users, Art Community deviantART Gets Strategic Funding From Autodesk

Online art community <a target="_blank" href="http://www.deviantart.com">deviantART</a> is announcing that it has received a strategic investment from software company Autodesk. The financial terms

Madefire Partners with deviantART To Bring Its ‘Motion Books’ To The Web (And Start Charging For Them)

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.madefire.com">Madefire</a>, the <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/27/madefire-iphone/">True Ventures-backed startup</a> building a new kind of digital comics,

The 100 Millionth Deviation on DeviantART Is A Gay Sex Story, But I'm Going To Show You This Arctic Unicorn Instead

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/arcticunicorn-214x156.jpg" width="214" height="156" /> On <a href="http://www.deviantart.com/">deviantART</a>, the site for anyone who thinks

MyFolio Launches: (Yet) Another Way For Artists To Show Off Their Work

<img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/myfolio.png" alt="" /><a href="http://myfolio.com/">MyFolio</a> is a brand new social network in public beta that takes another crack at bui