On 21/01/14 07:52 AM, Seth Guy wrote: > May interest some of > you: > http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/special-event/1840s-gif-party-call-submissions
This is an amazing project artistically but Tate need to do some work on their image copyright policy. Specifically the tumblr requires that you: "ensure that any third party copyrighted material contained in a submitted work has already been cleared with the copyright holder." But the Tate website says: "You may not copy, reproduce, republish, disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer, download, post, broadcast, transmit, make available to the public, or otherwise use tate.org.uk content in any way except for your own personal, non-commercial use. In certain prescribed circumstances, you may adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any tate.org.uk content for your own personal, non-commercial use, with the prior written permission of Tate which will be indicated against the relevant tate.org.uk content." This applies to the Tate's dubious practice (sadly common among UK museums) of claiming copyright on reproductions of out-of-copyright paintings, which includes the paintings that are being used as source material for this project. (Also of relevance is the Tate website's terms disallowing: "Reproduction of Tate website content on any social media platforms, except where other terms allow" I'm not sure the project page counts as "terms".) Having required you to both accept and break their hallucinated copyrights, and promise not to use the resulting work publicly or as part of your artistic livelihood, Tate then require that you: "grant Tate a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual royalty-free licence to reproduce, modify, edit, publish and distribute the content you submit" At least unlike the Tate site the tumblr doesn't require that: "You also grant to Tate the right to sub-licence these rights to third parties." The solution to this iniquitous morass is that Tate should place all the images that they can under a Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike license. They can then receive adaptations under the same terms in return, including the adaptations they are calling for in this project. - Rob. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
