Hi all, I just ran into some smart business, that I thought was worth sharing with you.
The BBC News on line invites readers to contribute by sharing pictures that they think may be of interest to others. At http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/2780295.stm the BBC gives instructions on how they would like to get the job done. At first glance I thought "Yeah, I could send them some pictures from my corner of the world!." However, when looking more closely at their terms and conditions I found the following agreement that I would be entering by sending them a photo. (Needless to say my initial idea was scrapped. I also wonder to what extent submitters realize what they are gving the BBC for free in submitting photos to them.) "Contributions to BBCi 9. Where you are invited to submit any contribution to BBCi (including any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio) you agree, by submitting your contribution, to grant the BBC a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub-licenseable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, play, and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to your contribution worldwide and/or to incorporate your contribution in other works in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in your contribution, and in accordance with privacy restrictions set out in the BBC's Privacy Policy. If you do not want to grant to the BBC the rights set out above, please do not submit your contribution to BBCi. 10. Further to paragraph 9, by submitting your contribution to BBCi, you: 10.1 warrant that your contribution; 10.1.1 is your own original work and that you have the right to make it available to the BBC for all the purposes specified above; 10.1.2 is not defamatory; and 10.1.3 does not infringe any law; and 10.2 indemnify the BBC against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by the BBC as a result of your breach of the above warranty; and 10.3 waive any moral rights in your contribution for the purposes of its submission to and publication on BBCi and the purposes specified above." Lasse
