Call for submissions: Post your ex, a global arts project.

[richmau]

expostcards is a recently launched non-profit making arts project inviting the public to anonymously submit 4×6inch postcards expressing any thoughts and feelings that remain about a relationship after it has ended.

All entries will be posted on the http://www.expostcards.com website.The pieces themselves will be used to create an installation piece for an exhibition in London and Bath 2008.

For those who would like to participate please check the submission guidelines on the site before you post.

Many thanks

Rich
http://www.expostcards.com

[dougj]

Submission guidelines:

Legal Notice

By posting to expostcards you grant both yourself and ourselves a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sub- licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display all content published by you on expostcards throughout the world in any media, unless expostcards indicates otherwise. expostcards has the right but not the obligation to monitor and edit or remove any activity or content. expostcards takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any content posted by the poster or any third party.


And of course, they claim copyright to the webpages on which the photographers work is displayed.....

I think I'll pass on this 'opportunity'.

[richmau]

'I think I'll pass on this 'opportunity'.[/quote]

Hi Doug, I accept it's easy to be cynical when faced with establishment styled legal guidelines, but the whole issue of copyright is an interesting one. The submissions are intended to form part of an exhibition in Jan 08 - and for legal reasons, the legal terminology has to be mentioned somewhere to avoid any possible misunderstandings further down the line.

I want as much freedom as possible for both for the people who choose to submit, and also for myself when it comes to displaying/exhibiting the pieces of submitted art.

I think the project is an exciting one - it has a lot of capacity for growth, and exploration. Your mistrust in it may be a fault of mine, not explaining the project thoroughly enough. I'm gaining more understanding of the potentials and challenges of the idea as I go further into unpicking the complex dynamics of submitting works and viewing them. So please bear with me, this is the start of a project that I think could be useful to people, as well as visually stimulating and entertaining. The boundaries of the project will firm up on the way, but thank you for your comment. Copyright and the issue of intellectual property is a question that needs to be addressed for people to feel free enough to participate, and in attempting to answer you, I've answered a few of my unresolved thoughts on the subject. So, thanks for the nudge, and hope you make an expostcard sometime!

Sincerely

Rich

[dougj]

... I accept it's easy to be cynical when faced with establishment styled legal guidelines, but the whole issue of copyright is an interesting one. The submissions are intended to form part of an exhibition in Jan 08 - and for legal reasons, the legal terminology has to be mentioned somewhere to avoid any possible misunderstandings further down the line.

Right.

Let's be very clear and cut through the post-legal verbage and attempts to make this something other than the specified terms and conditions.

Your organization has established the guidelines of image usage, and this is very clear on the website. If your orgainization has/had the intention to legally specify some other legal conditions for image useage it would have done so. You write the terms and establish the legal guidelines. If your organization has other legal T&Cs or guidelines, these should be stated as part of the submission guidelines.

As it stands, your organization has unlimited rights to submitted images, attempting to explain this is not so in a forum just does not work. Change the legal guidelines to relfect the intention, should these really be different.

Further, how can you possibly copyright a web page that contains the copyright work of others when they have not assigned copyright to you? You really need to do your homework.

[richmau]

Thanks for the friendly advice Doug. I'll consider it all.

Rich