Barenaked Ladies
From Robert Wurth of Freshly Squeezed Design:
So, what do you do when you’re an internationally recognized, successful band with millions of dollars in CD and concert ticket sales? If you’re the Barenaked Ladies, you slap an industry in the face by running an unethical, exploitive contest, that’s what.
Over at the web site Deviant Art, a recent contest was posted for the development of a t-shirt design to promote a new Barenaked Ladies tour. The details of this contest are glaring examples of the problems this trend creates within the design community. The fact that it comes from a representative of the music industry, an industry very vocal in the protection of artist’s rights, makes it all the more disturbing.
So, why the bitch? Besides the fact that they are a business and can pay a fair rate for designs they will turn around and sell?
Check out, for yourself, a snippet of their rules:
All entrants to the Contest acknowledge that the Barenaked Ladies will own all results and proceeds including copyright in and to the entrant’s designs submitted hereunder. To the extent entrant owns same, entrant hereby assigns such rights to the Barenaked Ladies in perpetuity. Entrants waive any and all moral rights in and to the designs and the artwork created hereunder. Entrants acknowledge that Nettwerk Productions may commercially release or otherwise exploit the artwork design in any manner it deems fit, now or hereinafter invented, without territories limitations, and that entrant shall not be entitled to any payment of any kind as a result of such use or other exploitation.
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