Thu 5 Oct 2006
PostSecret - Crap Submission Rules
Posted by Kitty under ...Issues, ...Media/Markets, ..Stuff, ..Blog Making Etc, ...IP/Law
I like this one from PostSecret:

What I don’t like so much about them is their awful submission rules. Basically, you send them free content (your clever and charming postcards) and they won’t share it with it anyone. You are allowed to post ONE image as a link only, which is pretty stupid because it means that once you’ve linked to them once, you’re outrightly banned from giving them any further publicity (other than text links which are nowhere near as appealing), however much you might like a future postcard. They have made a book from it and I suppose plan future ones but it’s simple enough to attach a Creative Commons Attribution/Non-Commercial license to it and then maybe it would feel a lot less like exploitation.
By submitting information to PostSecret, you grant PostSecret a perpetual, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, distribute, and otherwise exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to that information at its sole discretion, including storing it on PostSecret servers and incorporating it in other works in any media now known or later developed including without limitation published books.If you do not wish to grant PostSecret these rights, it is suggested that you do not submit information to this website. PostSecret reserves the right to select, edit and arrange submissions, and to remove information from the PostSecret website at any time at its sole discretion.
No image from this site may be used for any purpose without expressed written authorization, with one exception; you may post one image as a link to this site.
