Yesterday a new Image Rights Grab competition was launched by the UK Department for Innovation, Business and Skills. Reading the small print in the terms and conditions for photo submissions to their
Living Science Competition on the 'Science, so What?' website, we find that:
By entering, all entrants licence News International, the Department for Innovation, Business and Skills, and their authorised representatives, a worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free licence to publish and use each entry (including all images and text submitted by the entrant as part of the entry process) in any and all media (including, without limitation, print and online) in perpetuity.This means that
News International (The Times, The Sun, The Sunday Times, The News Of The World), the
Department for Innovation, Business and Skills, and 'their authorised representatives' (ie
anyone else they choose), can use your images for anything, for all time,
without any payment to the photographer.
Following the
huge success of our campaign to persuade
Great British Life and Archant Publishing to change the terms and conditions of their website and competitions, we now ask our loyal supporters to help us in publicising this new underhand Rights Grab on photographers' images.
WHAT YOU CAN DOIf you have your own website, blog, newsgroup, whatever, please copy and paste this link into your site:
What will happen is that anyone searching for info about the Living Science Competition is likely to see a link to this blog and be warned about the Image Rights Grab attempt.
Does this have any effect? Our previous campaign rose as high as the number 3 search result on
Google for the search term 'Great British Life' and as a direct result
Great British Life and Archant Publishing liaised with Fair Trade Photographer in rewriting their terms and conditions to make them fair to photographers.
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