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Where to Announce Free Graphic Art?
BrynM asks: "I have a good portion of my deceased father's artwork scanned and up on a personal website (294 images with everything from sketches to finished work). I have been adding more in batches and should end up with around 1,000 images when done. My sister and I have released the art under the Free Media License, which is much like a GPL for art. We have also set a date on paper that the art falls into the public domain regardless of what laws may change in between (avoiding the eternal copyright stuff). My hope is that people will utilize the art, since the only gain I desire is to share the pride in the work my father did. Where can I announce that the site is open to the graphics and stock art geeks out there? Since the server can't take a full slashdotting (DSL), that's out. Are there any sites that specialize in public domain or commons type art sites without having to submit every piece to an unknown body?"
Ask Slashdot? They'll post anything there.
The Internet Archive seems to dig on this kind of thing. They put up the Prelinger archive when Rick Prelinger put it into the public domain, and they do a lot more than the Wayback Machine.
Why can't I moderate something "Wrong" or at least "Grossly Misinformed"?
What about one of the common themes sites used heavily by open source geeks?
- billn
http://opart.org
If you are so concerned about the potential bandwidth impact from such a posting that you omit a link to the site in question from your post, also remember to use an email account in your slashdot user profile that is in a different domain than the site you don't want slashdotted. Not being malicious, but we are a curious (and clever) bunch...
deviantart
Thread over.
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Post it to usenet. I have no idea what group(s) would be appropriate without more explanation, but with 20,000+ groups, something should fit.
Find a group, read the FAQ, learn the rules about flooding and binary posting, and upload it over an appropriate period - and it'll be forever enshrined in any of a number of usenet mirrors.
If you have the ability to do thumbnails somewhere, you could zip a bunch in a folder (tar.gz or PKZIP or whatever) and use FreeCache to save bandwidth - they only cache stuff over 5 MB, though, so you'd have to have a way for people to see samples and choose which set of images they want before they download 'em.
Where to Announce Free Graphic Art?
Why, on Slashdot of course !
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Spend a hundred or so bucks a year and get your site hosted somewhere with load-balanced servers that can handle Slashdot.
:D
Not much use having a website if you can't tell us where to find it
1. Place art here. ...
2. Place an ambiguously worded article on Slashdot to avoid the usual front page story slashdotting.
3. Know that someone will find your hidden stash (we are geeks) and post the location of aforementioned art within the comments, and it will safely be disseminated without a typical slashdotting.
4.
5. Profit!
-Adam
Don't forget the Creative Commons, which also offers a directory of CC-licensed art.
If you're interested in eventually ceding the work to the public domain, you should definitely examine the Founder's Copyright, which sounds a lot like what you're already trying to do. This might be better than simply writing it down on a "piece of paper", because this is a full legal contract and procedure.
Put a bunch of porn keywords in your web pages. Get some oft-used sites to link to yours.
Google will find it.
Give me my freedom, and I'll take care of my own security, thank you.
I know I'll be modded troll instead of funny because most /. users aren't 14 yet but...
Give all the files pr0n names and distribute on Kazaa!
If I was looking to download some graphics or artwork, the tool I would use would be google.
Why not simply use meta tags on your web page, to attract googlers to your site?