Welcome to globally enforced liberal capitalism boys and girls

Yes, the corporations will take away your art and use it for leaflets, posters, marketing campaigns etc. so they can induce even sicker and more compulsory consumer society. The gap between supply and demand will continue to be progressively bridged by symbolic violence (marketing) rather than by choice, thinking and individual rights. Thus our issue with the Orphaned Arts Bill…

But no time to be depressed or lost in space, action is the right thing, right now. Let’s face it, we cannot change the corporate mind or their will by civic activism. Don’t be that naïve! Artists never won a battle in history ever, they only manage to survive. And how should you survive the Orphaned Arts Bill if not by protecting your art with corporate mechanisms at hand. Terrorist fight against global oppression with technology and not with ideology, so I suggest you to become an art terrorist. This is your art terrorism cook book!

First of all remember the keywords INVESTMENT, PROMOTION, PRODUCT, PRICE, LAWYER.

You can send emails to senators, representatives, foundations, organizations… who cares!!! There are millions like you, thus millions of collateral damage to be talked about and nothing else. Start appreciating and protecting your art by investing in it as a product you can promote for a certain price with a lawyer to keep your art yard guarded. If you don’t do this, no one will!

What is the recommended cure?

Get a damn web site, it’s not luxury goods, it’s not for knowledgeable people or commercial whores. It’s something you NEED. When I recommend this to artist they usually say “But I’m on deviantArt or Flicker or Facebook…” or “I don’t have that much money “. Well if you can afford a damn HP Pavilion, Wacom Pen tablet or Nikon D80 you can afford a damn 30$ web site!!!! Stop eating so much if you must, just collect the bloody 30$. Yes it’s that cheap, believe it or not. This is your INVESTMENT in your own art! If you don’t appreciate it the corporations have the right to use it and abuse it in anyway their “brainstorming geniuses” fit right. Your best work might end up as toilet paper packaging (though some of you won’t mind this). Creative Commons license cannot protect your art from this Bill in the US!!! Therefore none of the art online communities can, not even DeviantArt (reference [link]). You should have a web site and keep PROMOTING it on every art community you like and enjoy visiting, thus making your web site alive and dynamic. Having a web site to display your art makes you more serious and “ professional” in this “business”, plus it makes it difficult for corporations to orphan your art! How is this possible? Read the “makes it difficult” literally and not in the form “impossible”. Is it worth it? Well fuck yeah if you want your art to remain off Wall-mart racks and for the puny amount of 30$. Let’s see how.

Treat your art as a PRODUCT because someone else will do it for you. Feel all emotionally attached to it all you want but it’s the capitalistic reality of today to treat anything as if for sale. Don’t become a mere commercial slut, just camouflage it this way. This way you make perception to corporations difficult for abuse. They don’t see it as free anymore. To make this even stronger and logical tag a PRICE! Never mind how much it would cost, use thousands of dollars for a blank piece of paper if you want to. Just tag a price. However keep methods of payment unavailable unless you really wish to earn from your art. Just leave a note on your web “To purchase any of the art PRODUCTS contact me at bla@blabla.com”. Now you are on top… of this major rape game.

And finally go to a LAWYER and ask him if he would like to be your personal “guardian”, to go to lawsuits in case some company takes your art PRODUCTS without paying the PRICE… mmmm sweet. Just having this conversation with a lawyer is free, get his contact details and add them to the footer section of your web site. This dog will scare away even more corporations.

You can register one of your art pieces or not register at all. Add a threatening message on your web site that some of your exhibited work is registered and protected or even add link to the legislators relevant web link. This and the legal Cerberus should do the work nicely.

Again to be honest, nothing can protect you as much as registering every damn thing you create, but for 30$ this a good start to be more sustainable about it.

Web advices for dummies:

1) Visit [link] or [link] or some other web domain provider, purchase a www. blabla.com web site domain. Be sure its .com and not .info or other option that looks 4$ cheaper.

2) Then you will need hosting to store your web site files on. You can buy a separate hosting from different provider or you can get a deal from the same domain provider, most give it for free if you buy a domain.

3) Next you will need a web design to organize your art, biography and contact details. You can get free stuff and set it up yourself (just google free open source web gallery). Or you can have 3in1 deal with your domain/hosting provider and get a free CMS (Content Management System [link] ) installed with administrator panel. Just be sure to tell your provider it’s a gallery oriented CMS.

4) Eventually you can buy all this from a web design company and have it the easy way. If you hire a Marketing Agency to do this for you, demand an agreement that obligates them to protect every content in your web site from art theft or orphanage.

5) Never upload art images with higher resolution than 72dpi and 800x600 px. For someone to steal it good enough to print (posters etc.) will need optimal 300 dpi or at least 1024x768 px for commercializing desktop images.

6) If you are too damn ignorant on this subject ask other artists on deviantArt that already have web sites. If they aren’t total narcissistic jerks (good luck!) they will help you get one as well. CSS mumbo jumbo we all use on DA profiles is basically web design for organizing your art and information together. Look up CSS know-how talented people on DA.

7) If you need help just note me, I’d be glad to help out as much as I can.

Congratulations, you may be actually considering having your own personal web site WOW!

How do I know all this? I work in a Marketing Agency hahaha

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