About My Art My Rules

Why this exists

Creators everywhere search for the same things: will this platform pay me where I live, do I need a permit to film in this park, can I fly a drone here, who owns this photo, which studio or rental house is near me. The answers exist, but they are spread across government sites, platform help centres, forums and outdated blog posts, and AI answers often get them wrong.

My Art My Rules puts them in one place, country by country and city by city, with the source and the date on every fact. It is built for every kind of creator, from someone filming on a phone to a production company scouting a new city.

How the directory works

It works like a travel site for production: instead of searching a dozen places, you look in one. Some needs, like a film lab, a self-tape studio, a city's filming permit or a country's drone rules, are too specialised or too scattered for a map search to answer well.

So the directory lists them all, free, and keeps the rules current: a watcher re-checks every cited source each week, and a fact that can't be sourced isn't published.

The founder

My Art My Rules was founded and is edited by Terrell Groggins, World Press Photo award winner, Getty Images contributor, photojournalist and filmmaker from Detroit.

Terrell Groggins is a photojournalist and filmmaker from Detroit, Michigan. He is best known for Shields Strikes Back, a black-and-white photograph of boxer Claressa Shields rising from the canvas during her 2018 fight with Hanna Gabriels at the Detroit Masonic Temple. The Guardian named it one of 50 photographs that reshaped sport.

The photograph won third prize in the Sports category of the 2019 World Press Photo Contest, and toured more than 30 venues on several continents in the World Press Photo Foundation's exhibition Resilience: Stories of Women Inspiring Change. His work is in the permanent collection of the University of Arizona's Center for Creative Photography, and is shown in Muscle Memory: Lens on the Body at Phoenix Art Museum (24 January to 28 June 2026). He is also a Getty Images contributor.

He started My Art My Rules because the answers creators need are scattered and often wrong, and because, in his experience, Black creators are too often left uncredited and unpaid. He opposes AI replacing human creative work, and believes people can use it to change the world. The directory exists so every creator can find the rules, get paid and get credit.

Awards

Elsewhere: en.wikipedia.org · ccp.arizona.edu · worldpressphoto.org · myartmyrules.substack.com · x.com

How we verify

Every fact links to the source it came from. Official government and platform sources come first.
Every page shows the date it was last verified. Pages are re-checked on a regular cycle.
If we haven't verified something, we say "not verified yet" instead of guessing.
Sponsored listings are labeled. Rules and facts are never for sale.
Verified creators are listed only if they opt in, and the badge describes their verified work, not an identity check.
This is general information, not legal advice.

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