Good news everyone!
This is now available for testing in beta; on each event entity page you’ll now see the Event Art tab and then can upload.
Now there is no hard and fast guidelines yet for what should and shouldn’t be uploaded; I guess that is for us now to hash out however it seems to be encouraged to upload event posters.
There are a few examples already underway by @UltimateRiff as per these events:
I think these are great examples of adding the art and I can’t see there being too much kick-back from the community in understanding these are the event poster.
The issue comes further in that there are many “posters” (read more in a minute) which cover multiple venues. Considering we split events per venue that would mean needing to upload a tour poster to every entity; fear not however as the quick thinking UltimateRiff has already raised this ticket to add these posters to their tour series entity instead!
There’s a few examples they have provided in that ticket however here is what it would look like if we uploaded these types of images to multiple events:
So here are the questions ultimately;
Should Posters with Multiple Dates Be Added to Event or Series Entities
- Events Only
- Series Only
- Both Events and Series
Along with that it might be good idea to get an idea of additional art types; here are some I can think of that people might want to upload:
- Poster for the event this would be a poster (traditionally shown at the venue) for the event at a single location, but possibly for multiple dates at that one location
- Poster for the tour this would be a poster (traditionally shown at a participating location/venue) for a wide selection of dates and usually following some kind of promotional theme (album release, reunion etc.)
- Altered posters sometimes venues/promoters will like to post posters that have been altered from the original to either show dates that have sold out or have been cancelled. There are also revisions of posters with additional dates added (usually for big events)
- Ticket stubs these are copies of people’s tickets after they have been processed by the venue on arrival. These are considered collectable and are a good source of evidence of not only the act but the promoter, the price, the start time and sometimes even any support acts
- Magazine advertisments [a vested interest to me as I have 1,000s of these] these are not posters per-se, although they can be general copies of the posters found at venues, and are often printed in music magazines and can range from full page colour prints to small black and white listings
- Zine advertisments considering that 'zines differ from magazines in their DIY approach and low production run they can include adverts done by fans usually by hand and then photocopied (or Xeroxed) for reproduction
- Flyers thinking here more about the rave scene, flyers were often the main way that raves (legal or otherwise) were advertised; there is a big scene in collecting and preserving these flyers and they can be just as interesting as posters IMO.
- Photographs of the event this might be the most contentious point yet; there is a large grassroots community of photographers who’s livelihood (or at least a decent amount of income) comes from taking photos of these events; these photos are usually copyright of the photographer or promoter and are not intended for re-production. Of course in the modern world of the internet we know that these copyright images are often copied without permission and uploaded to websites without said permission. Even if we consider “non-professional” photographs, like those taken by amateur fans on simple point-and-shoot cameras, they are also falling into this bin of copyright hell. Considering we generally don’t permit the upload of images of performers, I believe that photographs of the event might likely fall into this camp too. Happy to discuss further of course.
I believe that’s all the variants I can think of now, please comment below with more or any comments you have.
Having the Event Art Archive working is a major achievement and I am really excited for its possiblities!