Well, I can't think of any other license they could come up with that
would be safe. They are a magazine, and they expect the right to use the
entries in the magazine, and in promotion of the magazine, and promotion
of future competitions. If you enter the competition and win, would you
not expect them to use your winning image? Would it make sense to have
the right to pull your image out at some future time? How about ten
years down the road, when they use the best of show from each previous
year to promote the event? You want the right to withdraw your copyright
after they've printed fifty thousand copies? How could they proceed if
there were ten previous winners, any or all of whom could withdraw their
permission? Any license granted needs to be perpetual.
They're even committing to putting your name and website URL on all
those future uses, although they don't promise that all such uses will
allow the URL.
If you don't want to enter, don't. But I can't see anything wrong with
this very-limited license. I might word it a little differently if I
were sponsoring the show, but it says exactly what I would want it to
say. Oddly enough, it says exactly what I would want it to say if I were
an entrant.
Van
On 04/11/2010 17:38, Gary wrote:
>
> So once again we have another online venue that only wants an open
> license on your work...
>
> DIMi wants no rights over your submission beyond a perpetual and
> non-exclusive
> right to publish your work in any form, electronic or print,
> indefinitely, in
> the form of the DIMi magazine or any special issues or accumulations or in
> advertising of such. Your work will always be published with your name
> and,
> wherever possible, a link to a site where people can see more of your
> work and
> contact you, except in the case of illustrations showing the magazine in
> advertising or on the app store
>
> Really? No rights other a perpetual, non-exclusive right in any form.
>
> Wayne, your work is great. But this type of wording, while great for
> the lawyers, offers no protection or control to the artist. Hope the
> folks down under aren't experiencing the level of copyright theft we
> have here in the US.
>
>
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