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I work for Talentcall, we’re an online creative contest platform hosting contests in the visual and performing arts. Right now, we have a $500 USD “Around the World” Photography Contest. I would love for you to join the contest. It’s Free!
Please check out our site, we are really working hard to this work and we’d love to have your talent on display!
Here is a link to our site: [link]
Here is a link to the competition site: [link]
Facebook Name: TalentCalling
GOOGLE: Talentcall Around the World Photography Contest
"you grant Talentcall a perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, fully-transferable, fully- sublicensable (through multiple tiers), royalty-free, worldwide license to use, copy, modify, adapt, translate, publicly perform, digitally perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such Content (in whole or in part) or prepare derivative works of such Content, for any purposes relating to our or our affiliates business or the Website, including, without limitation, operating and using the website, promoting the Website, Talentcall and Talentcall’s products, contests and services, and promoting our sponsors and their products and services. We reserve the right to display advertisements in connection with your Content and to use your Content for advertising and promotional purposes. You acknowledge and agree that your Content may be included on the websites and advertising networks of our distribution partners and third-party service providers (including their downstream users);"
I completely understand your point and sympathize with you. Honestly, our intent is NOT to transfer rights so that we can make money directly by using anyone's submission. However, for marketing, social media, etc.... we do send out messages and show off art that is hosted on our site - User Submissions. It is used as a marketing tool, NOT for us to make money.
I wish there were a better way to convey this. The legal language - as you pointed out - makes us seem as if we're trying to steal ownership. We aren't!
Do you have a Terms & Conditions that you like? Or that you feel is more transparent as to our purposes, as I mentioned above.
I got into this to provide artists with an avenue to make money and gain recognition. NOT to take their material and maliciously make money off of it. But at the same time, we need to be covered in the event that we do use someone's submission for marketing or other purposes. You can see our facebook [link] - you will see how we use User submissions.
Again, my goal is to make this a WIN for talented people. If you have any T&C that you have read that you like, please share. I WOULD LOVE to make this more appealing to people like you, who value their work.
Please do keep in touch. I'd love to run future T&C's by you, if that's OK.
"You grant Talentcall a perpetual, non-exclusive license to use your work in association with and in promotion of future competitions from Talentcall" of something along those lines.
As it stands people are literally giving away everything except exclusivity. You could literally harvest peoples images and sell them onto a third party. I guess those terms just covers you for absolutely every eventuality. I appreciate that you are being polite but really you should know better. If you are running a competition like this and you want to do it responsibly (and professionally!) then you should be able to stand behind your T&Cs. Your T&Cs are currently amongst the worst I have ever seen. The only way you could make them worse is if you added exclusivity to the list!
This: [link] is a classic example of good T&Cs as far as I am concerned because it is specific about what images can be used for.
"16) By entering the competition, you grant Take a view and its sponsors and supporters a non-exclusive, irrevocable licence to reproduce, enlarge, publish or exhibit, on any media, the images for any purpose connected with the competition. This may include, but is not limited to:
a) inclusion in the Take a view book – print & digital versions;
b) display at any exhibitions;
c) on a secure web browser for judging purposes;
d) on the Take a view website and on the websites of sponsors and supporters;
e) for use in press releases to be distributed to national, regional & specialist press giving information about or promoting the competition."