Grabbing Photo Rights
Watch out watch out there’s a rights grab about.
When something looks too good to be true it usually is.
A rights grab is when a company or publication tempts you to submit your images – usually in the form of a competition – for their use.
But watch out – the T+C’s may mean they can use and PROFIT from your image FOREVER !!
Just imagine if you submitted an image that became world famous and you received ZILCH.
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A quick excerpt……….
Recently I received an email from Great British Life asking me to "Share my best photos". Having my suspicions I checked out their website. You can upload images to their site and…
"Some photos could be printed in some of the Archant Life magazines and there is even a chance that your photograph could become a magazine front cover."
So, time to read the small print in the Terms and Conditions, and surprise, surprise:
"By submitting any material to Archant, You automatically grant Archant the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, edit, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such material (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in such content."