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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 8361200" data-attributes="member: 7023840">Well, here's the thing. If you had a passing knowledge of the issue, you would know that what you wrote doesn't work for multiple reasons.The primary one is ... it doesn't work. Let's assume, charitably (and I am trying to be charitable here) that you actually used real legal language- you know, something like this off the top of my head (without defined terms)-Providing a Entry constitutes Entrant’s consent to give Company a royalty-free, irrevocable, non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, publish and display such Entries in whole or in part, on a worldwide basis, in any form, media or technology now known or later developed for one year for purposes of implementing the Competition.See? That's how you would have language that might work. Problem is... that language doesn't protect the company if it gets sued later on down the road by someone claiming that a product they produce resembles something that was submitted.Again, if you read my whole post, instead of going for the knee-jerk "I'm on the internet and I'm right I know more than everyone else" you would see that I'm not about protecting poor corporations- I'm all for paying creatives more. But if you don't understand why things are the way they are, you will have trouble understanding what happens when you remove it.And if the purpose (as I wrote) is to get rid of fan contests like this, that's totally cool!* But don't think these selfish corporations that you hate so much are going to be all like, "Hey, let's spend all this money on a contest for mediocre stuff, and NOT PROTECT OURSELVES!"EDIT-*Again, I shouldn't have to keep repeating this, but I don't have a fully formed opinion on the underlying issue of "no fan competitions." I am completely against unpaid internships, for example. And to the extent that fan competitions lower the wages of creatives, I am against those. I just have never considered them in that way, because I have always viewed them as amateur competitions for fun that companies run as loss leaders. If that's no longer correct, then maybe they should go away, and only art contests that aren't being run by rivalrous companies (i.e., companies that do not produce creative works) and non-profits should occur, not fan contests.</blockquote>

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