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Providing the ability for content creators to become sellers and generate real earnings by making digital files of their high-quality work available for download. Sellers are able to set their own prices while retaining 80% of all revenue earned, and buyers are able to quickly get the things they want with the satisfaction of supporting the artists they love.
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The Premium Content Platform launch is a staged release. All members are currently enabled to buy content. However, only a small segment of deviants have been granted the privilege to sell. Over the next few weeks, more and more deviants will be given the privilege to become sellers. Those who have the ability to sell will be notified with a Hot Topic notification in their Message Center.
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Also, if your content appears elsewhere on the web for free or for sale, you'll be able to narrow down the suspects. That way you can either contact your lawyer to help you receive monetary damages as those purchases could and should have been yours, or, you could contact the deviantART Help Desk and have the admin team put some disciplinary actions in motion.
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Well, there should at least be the option to remain anonymous.
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would fan art be in violation of the "content that is original to you and/or that you have the full authority to offer the content for sale"? if someone commissioned a image of a character from a tv series or something?
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I don't think it is a violation because it's your art, you drew it and you own it. Think about those people that sell fanart at places like Comic Con and Supanova. It wouldn't be a violation.
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Yeah, I think it is a violation!
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i just googled this and this unanswered question is the only one i could find. darn.
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I just found out about this. Interesting.
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ok, so you can sell our art, and in return you get points, but you have the option of turning it into real US cash? please help!!!!
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Yes, you do. When you've sold something, dA will notify you and then you can choose whether you want points or cash (Paypal or check).
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Not sure what's really going on here. So far I like (the art, the diversity) that I have seen. All looks very complicated, but I guess that I'll learn as I go. I've just thrown out a couple of my paintings as a way of wading into this. Will see what happens. Oh yes, compared to most (all) of you, I'm nearly computer illiterate.
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So is this only for .pdf sales? Like, multiple page documents?
That makes sense, but this article makes it sound like anything can be sold using Premium Content Platform. If that is the case, how is it any different than the buyers copying and pasting the picture?
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Groovy! Does the content available only to DA members?
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Can we add some suggestions here? If so, why can't we also have the, (Withdraw with, a) check, b) PayPal. c) dA Points)) in the commissions widget? >:U I mean, we can't always stick to dA Points all the time. Some people here need this because they need the money. REAL Money
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Hi I'm 4 years late lol. But just list the price in the description of it because you can only have points for the premium widget. Like let's say 50 pts on the widget, it's be 82 cents. If someone wants to pay thru money, give them your paypal and they can send it there. If you don't want people to buy with points at all, then don't use this. Just put the price in the description.
You might've already found this out lmao
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The idea of selling comics through DA instead of what I'm doing right now (hand e-mailing PDFs) was really exciting to me at first, until I realized that it would charge people in DA points. It would be nice to be able to sell to anyone like prints where people can pay in real money who don't want to sign up for a site to pay money for Disney land money to buy something.
I guess it's still e-mailing PDFs for us
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But you can convert the points into real money.
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But the buyer still has to buy DA points to be able to get the product. I believe what DemonRoad is saying is that he wants the buyer to be able to use real money instead of DA points.
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I got excited because the notice in my inbox said "sell your comics!", but then I realized after putting together the PDF for my comic that I can only be paid in DA points, which are utterly useless to me. Is there any word on if or when users like me will be able to sell premium content on DA for something a little more substantial than arcade tokens? Or am I missing some way to turn these points into money without being a paid DA user?
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Buyers make Premium Content Platform purchases with Points.While all payments are made in Points, earnings from work sold can be withdrawn as U.S. dollars via PayPal or check, or converted into Points.
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That's what I wanted to know. Thanks!
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is there a specific date for this or is accesable all time
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Hi there! You can submit Premium Content whenever you like. It can all be done from the Submit page , just select Premium Content in the right column when submitting, and you'll be prompted to go to Step 2 in order to set it up. If you want to remove Premium Content from one of your deviations at any time, you can do so by editing the deviation. I hope that helps!
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thank you 
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I have a question. Can you make a bunch of pages and have it sold in a bundle? or do you have to sell pages seperatly?
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Hi there! You can upload multiple files as Premium Content and sell them as one purchase, yes. When you select Premium Content in the right column of the Submit page, you'll be prompted to go to step 2, at which point you can upload all of the files you want to offer for sale, just upload all of the files that you want to sell and make sure that they're all selected, and they'll be included in the download when someone buys.
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do you have to have premium membership to use the premium content plaform? if so, then are there any monthly payment fees I have to make in oder to continue to using premium membership, or is everything free after purchase of premium membership?
please respond v_v
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Hi, there. Just passing by.
Any member can use premium content (buy and sell) without any regular fees.
BUT you only get 80% of the price you enter. 
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I would like to make tee shirts from D A how do I do this?
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->"Paypal" Options in the photo. But no way to actually get real currency to transfer into paypal? I remember taking a survey for deviants with a premium membership. I took the survey and gave my opinion about what should be added to premium memberships. Im sure many others had an opinion about having more payment options options like paypal. We should be paid in real currency. As an artist I thinks its great I can promote my art here; I don't mind paying for a membership to get more benefits.
Payment Options would help a lot of artists start making a name, or pay for another premium membership. Yes you can earn points, but points don't pay the bills, Our memberships probably pays yours.
Some deviants don't like to pay through paypal, they probably earn points through donations because they cant afford them. If we could convert points into cash or into paypal, I wouldn't mind being charged a small percentage fee of some sort.
Yes this is my opinion, but im sure a lot of people could agree with me. It would definitely make a huge difference for artists using DeviantArt.
If this is just a bug please fix it soon....
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it says after a period of 14 days you will be given the option to accept your payment in the form of A.) check B.) paypal or C.) dA points
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why so long? But thank you ^^
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I guess that provides both of the people in the transaction enough time to cancel or refund if they needed to before all payments were final
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hello I have question x3
if i have points and i want to transfer them into USD how can i do this ?
I try to click to button : withdraw by paypal but when I fill all boxes (and I think all are filled good ) but I still see this : [link] :c
dont know where is problem ?
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Have a look at the #PremiumContent group and that may clear things up, there'll be more up to date news there
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Everyone should have it now!
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Is it only me, or is the premium content platform bugged atm? cant seem to purchase anything.. it just freezes your screen :l
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This happened to me as well...
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And this is for premium members only. Right?
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No, for everyone!
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Why do I have that option then? O:
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It is available for everyone!
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