"Hallucinated copyrights." I like that.
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Rob Myers <r...@robmyers.org> wrote: > 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 > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- ***************************** Pall Thayer artist http://pallthayer.dyndns.org *****************************
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