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About the author: SOAR: The Southern Oregon Artist's Resource is a directory of Southern Oregon artists, artisans and those who serve them and calendar of their art events, and Art Matters!, our blog posting Southern Oregon art events and matters of interest to artists, enthusiasts and patrons of the arts near and far. SOAR was created and is maintained by art advocate and web designer Hannah West in Jacksonville, Oregon to promote our diverse and talented arts community to our visitors and the rest of the world.  Artists’ Bill of Rights is for everyone. Artists-Bill-of-Rights.org formed in 2007 by a group of professional photographers under the direction of Gordon Harrison, who sought to tame the Wild West of internet rights-grabbing competitions. Artists Bill of Rights wished to create a venue that provided a safe place for all people to learn how to protect their creative work online. In addition to the many content harvesters who steal whole websites’ worth of images, many competitions require overly broad terms for entry that deny the creator a fair deal for the use of their images. Artists Bill of Rights provides information on how to minimize your exposure to those schemes, and they list competitions that meet fair standards. Online contests with onerous rules are either rights-grabbing venues or overly-cautious competition organizers who don’t understand copyright and fear lawsuits. We try to sort the wheat from the chaff and worked Continue reading The Artist’s Bill of Rights, by Don Schaefer By Southern Oregon Artists Resource, 1975 contributed posts
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About the author: SOAR: The Southern Oregon Artist's Resource is a directory of Southern Oregon artists, artisans and those who serve them and calendar of their art events, and Art Matters!, our blog posting Southern Oregon art events and matters of interest to artists, enthusiasts and patrons of the arts near and far. SOAR was created and is maintained by art advocate and web designer Hannah West in Jacksonville, Oregon to promote our diverse and talented arts community to our visitors and the rest of the world. The excitement about Pinterest as an effective means of driving traffic to your website has a significant downside. They are stripping all your metadata (if you were conscientious enough to enter it) when uploading, and now a new site called Printerest will print users’ boards without any regard for the intellectual property of the people who created the content being printed. We need your opinion – please make your voice heard in the comments! Continue reading You Need to Know About Pinterest and Your Intellectual Properties | |
