The following is a certificate text that accompanies any sale of my websites.
I hope this can be a starting point for people to think about how to sell websites as art pieces.
Feel free to use/modify/publish this text, mention my name if possible.
If you have your own version, please link to it in the comments.

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1. The Work:
The Owner is provided with one archival disc with source files, exhibition files, and online files; control and ownership of the domain name;
and this signed Certificate of Authenticity. The Work consists of these items, or migrated technical support and should be equally safeguarded.
In case of loss of the domain name due to technical changes or any other reason, the Work consists of the archival disk or the migrated technical support, and this Certificate of Authenticity.

2. Permitted Uses:
The Owner may show the work in art exhibitions and any form of art manifestations. The work may not be shown in advertising
or commercial spaces.
If any parts of the Work are lost they must be replaced at the expense of the Owner.

3. Presentation:
In case of public exhibitions the Work should be presented using the exhibition files from the archival disc.
The Work is based on vector information and should always be presented at the highest resolution possible.
The Work will adapt itself to any aspect ratio and should always be displayed using square pixels.
The Work should be open to the public on the Internet for as long as technically possible. The website consists of the online files on
the archival disc presented in the domain name of the work.

4. Restoration and Repair:
Restoration and preservation of the Work are at the expense of the Owner. If the Work needs to be restored for any reason, the Owner must contact the Artist
to ensure that the restored Work remains as close to the original as possible. If the Artist is unavailable for consultation, the Owner is responsible for
preserving the integrity of work in case of restoration.

5. Copyright:
The Artist or their estate retains copyright of the Work and of all images of the Work.

6. Transfer of ownership:
The Owner may resell the work. The Work should always remain complete as described per paragraph 1.

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Thank you to Stacie Sueko Lyons Van Der Star and Oliver Laric

Jag skulle gärna länkat till den, som han skriver, så att ni kunde kommenterat, men det verkar som att han tagit bort den. Aja, det står ju att det är fritt fram att publicera den så det var väl ren tur att jag hann spara den bara. Ni får kommentera här istället. Tycker ni det känns vettigt?

Snelson balances his expansion of searchable online catalogues with the creation of hermetic archives. One of these is a site devoted to digitizing Marshall McLuhan’s legacy; the link to it is passed hand-to-hand, and the site is coded with a robots.txt file blocking search engines and the unfavorable copyright attention they might bring.

Danny Snelson är en arkivist av sällan skådat slag. Rhizome har publicerat en väldigt intressant artikel om honom, hans skrivande, hans spretiga projekt och viljan att bevara konst åt eftervärlden. Digitalt till tryck, tryck till digitalt. Hårddiskar säljs med blandat arkivat curerat material för 99 cent per Gb. Hemliga länkar till oindexerade online-arkiv passas förtroligt vidare från person till person. Se t.ex. hans samarbete med Phoebe Springstubb; The Book of Ravelling Women. Ja ni kan ju googla själva, det är oändligt.

PS: Blogginläggets titel refererar här till.


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