From The Oprah Winfrey web site: Send us your beautiful nature images! Are you a great photographer? We want to see! Share your beautiful and inspiring images of nature to help create the Breathing Space Gallery on Oprah.com.
Now, before participate, be aware that Oprah (whatever legel entiry she is hiding behind) shall exclusively own all known or later existing rights to the Submissions worldwide and shall be entitled to the unrestricted use of the Submissions for any purpose in all media now known or hereafter discovered without compensation to the provider of such Submissions. End quote.
So, in a word, if you submit your pictures Oprah can do whatever she wants with your submissions without paying you a penny or even acknowledging you as an author. And she can do it in perpetuity even after converting your work to fartography (a medium not known yet, but...) I consider this a roadside robbery in the worst way. You know, Woody Guthrie sung once
"Some will rob you with a six-gun,
And some with a fountain pen"
Never, ever relinquish any rights to your pictures, or any intellectual property, even if you are a rank amateur, without just compensation. Better yet, stick to the specific use and one-time or time-limited licensing.
My hypothetical submission? A picture of a nicely extended middle finger...
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