#rights grab

[emwrote]

Findaway And Corporate Rights Grabs | Kristine Kathryn Rusch

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[writingvideos]

Has a publisher held your book hostage for 35 years? Here's a way to get the rights back, legal and free.

 I actually sold my first book when I was a pre-teen, okay, 24 years old. That was back in the Dark Ages, pre-internet, heck, pre-personal c

[jenniferrpovey]

I just saw an ad (which triggered a mild migraine) for an asos “tumblr t-shirt competition.”

First of all:

They are claiming the right to feature your design even if you don’t win.

Second of all:

If they decide to sell your design you will get a flat payment of 500 sterling as an e-voucher...and that’s it. Also, their terms and conditions are contradictory - they both say they automatically claim all rights to all submissions and that you give them a royalty-free license to use your image for three years. Including selling non-winners. Oh, and you waive your moral rights too - meaning you don’t get credit and, thus, can’t use the design in your portfolio because you can’t prove it’s yours.

IOW: This is a rights grab. Don’t touch it.

Also, don’t go to their website to look - the same flashing, migraine-and-seizure-triggering image is right there.

[whopaysphotogs]

UNICEF (NGO, UK)

£300 day rate - Photojournalism. 2015

Total loss of rights and even have to ask for permission to use the images on your website

The rates I can stomach given the nature of the organisation but the total world wide rights grab is immoral

Up to 3 months

[scottwcoleman]

It's one thing for a band to want to control its image and to try to make sure people aren't using their image and likeness to profit through merchandise, etc.

It's another thing entirely for a band to DEMAND and assume ownership and control over the creative work of a photographer, with the band then being able to use those images anytime, anywhere, for anything — making t-shirts, cd covers, posters, etc. Those are things that a band usually hires a photographer for, and pays that person.

By stealing the work of a media photographer in the pit, the band is taking the media photographer's work and ability to publish that work in media outlets (the pay is paltry, but it's all we have as freelancers) and they're also taking a paying gig away from another photographer for the shoot for the posters, cd covers, etc. That is just plain wrong.

FYI: 98% of photographers in the pit are freelancers, making a pittance for several hours of work. Many aren't getting paid at all unless and until an image gets published, and even then it's not much. 

[radicalmilitantlibrarian]

When our own Timothy B. Lee stepped into a Philadelphia dentist's office earlier this year, he had an unpleasant experience: the dentist required him to sign over control of all copyright in future online commentary related to that dentist. Here's how Tim described the visit:

When I walked into the offices of Dr. Ken Cirka, I was looking for cleaner teeth, not material for an Ars Technica story. I needed a new dentist, and Yelp says Dr. Cirka is one of the best in the Philadelphia area. The receptionist handed me a clipboard with forms to fill out. After the usual patient information form, there was a "mutual privacy agreement" that asked me to transfer ownership of any public commentary I might write in the future to Dr. Cirka. Surprised and a little outraged by this, I got into a lengthy discussion with Dr. Cirka's office manager that ended in me refusing to sign and her showing me the door.

Ah, rights grabs and mandatory fine print.