gagnonrich opened this issue on Oct 29, 2004 ยท 23 posts
AmbientShade posted Sat, 30 October 2004 at 4:03 AM
If they're taking entries for a calendar, then that's the only thing they should be using the entries for. I haven't even read the details of the contest, but that doesn't matter. I could see validation in the above license agreement for WINNING entries, even for say 2nd and 3rd place entries, (if there are any), but that license states that if ANYBODY enters ANYTHING in the contest, then Daz and its said affiliates are granted full use of anything they receive. THAT is what's wrong. So, if you submit something, and you lose, you don't get squat. You've basically just given daz a piece of your work and they can turn around and do anything they want with it. And no, they probably wouldn't use the submissions for other purposes, but if they wanted to they could. I don't really see much wrong with that license agreement applying to winners because in turn they are receiving the recognition, etc, that could give them the boost they need.