Time to celebrate? Umm...that depends. After checking the BBC One Minute Films site, their terms state:
"1. You agree, by submitting your contribution, to grant the BBC a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub-licenseable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, play, and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to your contribution worldwide and/or to incorporate your contribution in other works in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in your contribution, and in accordance with privacy restrictions set out in the BBC's Privacy Policy. If you do not want to grant to the BBC the rights set out above, please do not submit your contribution to the BBC." I saw the 'Self Emptying Bin' film, and liked it - but the BBC now have the right to do what they please with your work, and make money from it - and you don't get a penny. Under their terms they could even re-make the work or use your idea in another film and you get nothing. Imagine if your initial one minute animated idea ended up as a massive moneymaker like the Teletubbies, or was sold on as a TV commerical concept to an advertising firm - legally, you wouldnt have a leg to stand on. If you do try to sell the work or idea now to a film production company, they won't accept it, because you've already given the rights to your video away. This is pretty typical of the BBC I must say. Apart from requesting their UK domestic viewers pay a License Fee tax, they then use that tax to finance commercial cable and digital channels (not available to all viewers) and add insult to injury by grabbing the rights of viewer contributors creativity. It's 'content mining' and it's a real betrayal of their public service remit. I'm a photographer who's recently joined this listing out of a developing interest in video. In my sphere (stills), the increase in people submitting images to media groups for free has decimated my business sector. A lot of freelance photographers are going broke or re-training, because contrary to popular belief, most earn modest incomes and have very high business costs. Now, the response (I'm sure) would be: Why shouldn't people submit images to these channels if they want to? Doesn't it represent a democratisation of the media? Personally, I couldn't agree more - and if people want to go head to head with professional photographers then snap away I say...after all, its how most professionals started anyway... ...so why the hell shouldn't they get paid? Those channels are presenting a 'false interactivity' which is basically a front to gather content which they leverage for commercial gain and reduce costs - which means firing production staff and reducing fees to professional contributors creating 'content' for a living. I've had a decent run, and times change ya know? I just hope a lot of photography students walking out of college realise they'll never make a living, however talented they are. I believe Rupert Murdoch owns MySpace, and as I live in the UK, for various reasons I'd rather poke my eye out with a fork than submit work to any of his channels, but if you do...why the hell shouldn't YOU benefit? The guy is a billionaire - and you wanna give him more stuff to sell? The MySpace terms state: "By posting any Content to the public areas of the Website, you hereby grant to MySpace.com the non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to use, publicly perform, publicly display, modify, and translate such Content on the Website." The BBC pays its cameramen, directors etc...why ain't they paying you? By submitting to the One Minute Movie and MySpace, you're subsidising gigantic multi-million dollar businesses with your time and money. It's like walking into McDonalds, paying for a burger, and then being told to get an apron on and cook it yourself, just so you can say you ate there. I just don't get it. Regards, Sion Touhig. > From: Paul Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: It's a time to Celebrate!!!!!! > >Dear All, > >This isn't self promotion, honestly, but I sent a submission into the >BBC. And after a while of waiting, I think I posted it to them in a >brown envelope around November 2005, they have finally released it on >their website....... > >Click Here and look for "Self Emptying Bin" > >http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/oneminutemovies/ > >Love to all for you love and support. > >Today I got closer to winning an oscar. > > >Paul Knight Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
