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mike.wilson wrote:
Hi,
The following is part of a footer I received in an acknowledgement email after writing a letter to a newspaper. Names have been obliterated to protect the guilty.....
==================================== 1.You will retain your copyright.
2. During the copyright period and afterwards, The xxxxxxxxxxxxx and those authorised by it have the world-wide assignable right to use your work in any publication or service in whatever media (e.g. CD Rom, newspapers, online etc).
3. The xxxxxxxxxxxxxx may further allow others to authorise scanning/photocopying of cuttings that include your letter.
4. The xxxxxxxxxxxxxx may shorten or edit your letter for publication. ======================================
In other words "yes, it's yours but we will do what we like with it,
including making money from it and giving it to whoever we please to". I believe it tried the same approach with photograph copyright.
Stinky.
mike
-- graywolf http://graywolfphoto.com
"You might as well accept people as they are, you are not going to be able to change them anyway."
