On 6/23/05, mike wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > From: Billy Abbott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > They're taking entries for their gallery and competition at > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/apictureofbritain/competition.shtml - > > These tend to be fishing expeditions for free publicity stuff. Sure enough, > rule 8: > "The BBC reserves the right to publicly display all entries and to publish > any images to promote the BBC, and/or the photography competition. Copyright > will remain with the photographer." > > So it gets free use of your picture in perpetuity. Copyright's not a load of > good if you don't get paid for use of it. I wouldn't mind so much if it > wasn't paying horrific amounts of money to goons for sitting in suits and > reading autocues.
That's what I was expecting - the copyright still remains with me though, so anyone else would still need to get my permission to use the image. I try and look at it as the BBC giving my photography free advertising... billy -- Billy Abbott Photography - http://www.cowfish.org.uk/paw/
