Shoshanna opened this issue on Jan 31, 2004 ยท 20 posts
hauksdottir posted Sat, 31 January 2004 at 11:21 PM
I'm going to raise the same objection to the rules as I've raised in the past. Most Renderosity contests have now been modified... why are we repeating history? The problem sentence is this: "By uploading your image you are giving permission to Renderosity and e-on software for the use of the images for an undetermined period of time." This is TOO vague. It grants to Eon and Renderosity ALL rights to use our images for as long as you want and for any purpose you want, without limitation, merely for uploading an image. The next line saying that we remain intellectual copyright holders means nothing if we grant you unlimited rights. I can hunt down and post the links to the earlier threads, which got pretty nasty as I recall, but it ought not to be necessary. Why don't you look at current contests where the rules regarding copyrights were modified in a reasonable compromise? Saying that winners give you the rights to show the work in a contest archive, or that winners grant you the right to display the image for promotional purposes (tradeshows and websites) for x years, or other reasonable grant of rights is fine. Granting you all rights to all entries for any use forever and ever is not fine. This does sound like a fun contest, with excellent prizes. But anybody who cares about their copyrights is going to shudder at the expansive vagueness. Carolly