Very important! You're lack of rights as a deviant:
California Corporations Code - organized on dA
Original Link CA.gov

Best compilation of incidents:
**Killjoy tells all**

What is my cause?:
Obviously, I don't necissarily know how close anyone here is to the staff, but I'm hoping that through people that sincerely want to help, we can end this game of telephone; at the very least shorten the line.

Do you remember that game everyone played as a kid where something would be said, you whisper it into the next person's ear, and the person at the end of the line would have it all distorted? That's what has seemingly come of this matter.

The purpose of this is to try and centralize the truth. This is not a Jark fanclub, it is not an attempt to stick it to the man or to be competition for the Jark supporting clubs. It is an attempt to create a unified outreach to infect the truth through facts and not rumors, and to bring peace to the community.

World peace may never be possible, but deviantART once showed that this community can create its own.

What is my view?:

What is backing Jark? This is the question asked his colleagues. His hypothesis is that it's the cool thing to do or that it is to get page views. While this may be true, I emphasize that I joined the movement for one reason.

As a fellow Webmaster and artist, I refuse to stay silent while friends turn their backs on each other and overthrow a creator. Whatever the reason is, I don't care. Matt and Scott made this site, and they should have all legal ownership of it. Everyone else is an employee that has been treated like co-owners of the site and given authority to make massive changes. That's what teamwork is about.

And then, we as members post thousands of thank-yous to every moderator for their hard work and dedication. Some of the moderators claim otherwise. Firelite, such members that are so thankful would never attack the "Corporate Agenda" as you called it, as an anarchist movement. Those people would only attack when that agenda puts deviantART in jeopardy. In jeopardy of what Matt and Scott made deviantART stand for.

makes an excellent point when he says the "jark movement" needs to be an organized effort. I bet that over 90% of the current followers have no idea what's going on. This really needs to be centralized at one club and one only, where rational comments can be made and official truth posted.

I still support deviantART because all that is, is a name for all the people in the community. The only one(s) people should be mad at is/are the one(s) who didn't do what was best for that community.

As for THE LEAK, the mods need to stop complaining about all the rioting and bitching and about mods who try to release information. Some mods have said that it is none of our business. told us we should demand the truth, but he chastises us for our recent methods, and rightly so. Violence solves nothing. Neglect, verbal abuse, and physical abuse are all forms of violence, and it's been coming from all sides.

You have all seen the rumors for a week now, yet the mods refuse to tell people the truth. You mods need to make an official, but professional post that doesn't bash either mods or members. You can end the rumors with the truth and start acting like professionals. Some of the mods have made comments that are just as immature as those made by members. I know my jark tribute with Foamy may seem to make me a hypocrite in the sense of maturity, it is a play off of what Foamy is like. It's just a message of where I stand. I don't stand against deviantART BECAUSE I stand behind Scott and Matt. DeviantART was their dream, their work of art, and they cared enough to make sure you were all an equal part of it.

You are the leaders of this community. Act like it. Whether we get Jark back or not, you should put the same love, thoughtfulness, and care into the site and it's members that he did.

A point of urgency:
You NEED TO READ the CA Corp Code. It is because of this that we need a leader as trustworthy as jark. Leaving dA in the hands of a wishy-washy leader puts the site, the deviants art, and otherwise related materials at stake. was the first to make me aware of this.

By signing up with dA, you wave all rights to your deviations and are giving dA the right to exploit, sell, manipulate, or advertise with your deviations.

From section 1: The term ("Term") of this Agreement shall commence on the date that the "Artist Materials" (defined below) are initially uploaded to any deviantART Site(s) and shall continue thereafter until either Artist or deviantART terminates this Agreement in writing, with or without cause. To the extent this Agreement is terminated by Artist, the rights granted hereunder shall terminate *** only after Artist has removed all of Artist's Materials from the deviantART Site(s), *** and deviantART has received notice of such removal.

Where the flaw lies:
said:


"Sunday, while looking into the submission process and the Agreement within it, I uploaded a "test" deviation, not a finished piece of art but just an Ashley photo I'd been working on. Just for the hell of it, I called it "The Day Behind Me."

I uploaded it, and then deleted it immediately. According to the conditions above (way up there in Section 1), "the rights granted hereunder shall terminate only after Artist has removed all of Artist's Materials from the deviantART Site(s)..."

So, what would it mean if I couldn't delete it from the site? If the mechanism didn't effectively do that?

So here, take a look, at that deleted deviation. Notice the URL.

So I don't know, does that count as removed from the site or not?

What does that mean?:
dA backs up all files in it's archive. When you remove a deviation, the back-up still exists. You no longer have the benefit of the copyright stamp on the deviation page. Though your username is in the file exention, all legal binding of your art to your username has been dismissed. Anyone can therefor take the art and re-submit it as their own. You no longer have proof of ownership or submission.
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Who am I anyway?:

I am

I will post nothing as truth unless it comes from the mods themselves.

I am not a person that follows the crowd and anyone who knows me will attest to that.

I am not a person that expresses my individuality through anarchy and other things that are really just different ways to conform to peers.

I stand with my own opinion of the situation, not under the influence of any other.

I seek the honest truth from its original source.

And I will not be counted as part of a general movement, I have made my own.

Sources and important reads:

The Leak
T52
The first T52
Jark
s Mom
Jark's Stand
Justthorne's sources
Liquify's Stand
More by liquify
**Alitheia's research**
**justthorne's proposal**
About the company and the code
**Killjoy tells all**


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Those who are undoubted and true suporters:



If you're ready for this, feel free to note me and get invloved. Everyone is welcome to help support, but don't be offended if I don't use your information. I want to only post what we know to be true and what content is in the good interest of this site, the people involved, and the community.

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What I've said to :

I don't know what to say anymore. But after reviewing what all the staff has said, it seems that you are the only one remaining silent. I don't understand why you won't just post the truth.

Jark doesn't want the riot to go on, but he did say we should ask for the truth. He is trying to protect you and the rest of the Admin from members who are getting out of hand, yet you turn your back on him and on us and say nothing.

Funny thing is, I feel no contempt for you, I feel sorry for you because you aren't confident enough in your case to share it with the rest of the world.
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