> > The City of Toronto is holding a photography contest via Flickr [*]. > They plan to use winning pictures in official city business. > > I did a double-take at this clause in the agreement [**]: > > - You waive all moral rights in any of your winning photos and photos > that receive honourable mention. > > Is that a reasonable condition (or even legal) ? >
I am not a lawyer, but probably. In the UK moral rights are the right to be identified as the author of the work, and to object to the derogatory treatment of the work. It's likely that in the case of the photos they want to be able to reuse them in their own literature, advertising etc. without giving you a credit, and perhaps to reuse them in ways which you might think denigrates the pictures - eg by cropping. There are probably other parts of the terms which give them the right to reuse the pictures for their own purposes. It is not the same as waiving copyright, and doesn't allow them to sell your work on. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
