Breakingnews.ie & Irish Examiner
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Breakingnews.ie & Irish Examiner

Thomas Crosbie Media publishes the Irish Examiner newspaper and the www.breakingnews.ie website where they say:

We’d love to receive pictures and video from readers on any news or sports topic, so we hope you’ll get your camera or phone out and send us some!

Aw, nice! But don't read the terms!

In submitting your pictures and/or video, you agree to be bound by the following terms:
(a) In consideration of allowing you to submit photographs and video, you grant us and our affiliates perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free licence to modify, translate, make available, distribute and sub-license your photograph or video in whole or in part and in any form. This may include personal information such as your name, alias and caption. You waive any moral rights that you may have in regard to the photographs and video you submit;
(b) We reserve the right (which we may exercise in our sole discretion without notice) to modify, edit or delete any photograph or video;
(c) In consideration of us allowing you to submit your photograph or video, you agree not to submit any photograph or video that is indecent, infringes the copyright or other rights of third parties or which contain any other form of illegal content, profanity or immoral material; and
(d) You agree to indemnify and hold harmless us and our affiliates (on demand) against any losses, damages, fees, expenses, costs and liabilities arising out of any photographs or video sent by you that are in breach of these terms and conditions or the guidelines;
(e) We reserve the right to modify or vary these terms and conditions from time to time;
(f) In these terms and conditions and guidelines, the term “we” or “us” is a referent to Thomas Crosbie Media Limited and its affiliates.

The Irish Examiner has a website but does not appear to be soliciting user photos yet. However they take an acquisitive view of any other user material

Please note that all comments, feedback, postcards, ideas, suggestions, materials, information, and other submissions disclosed, submitted or offered to Irish Examiner on or by this Site or otherwise (collectively, "Comments") shall be and remain property of Irish Examiner. Any such disclosure, submission or offer of any Comments shall constitute an assignment to Irish Examiner of all worldwide rights, titles and interests in all copyrights and other intellectual properties in the Comments. Thus, Irish Examiner will own exclusively all such rights, titles and interests in, and shall not be limited in any way in its use, commercial or otherwise, of any Comments. Irish Examiner is and shall be under no obligation (1) to maintain any Comments in confidence; (2) to pay to user any compensation for any Comments; or (3) to respond to any user Comments.

 


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anonymous
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What I find most onerous about breakingnews.ie's terms and conditions is that fact that not only are you expected to give your work away, forever, without credit or recompense but that you are also expected to foot the bill for any legal actions taking against breakingnews.ie as a result of them using the image or video that you have so generously given away for nothing.

Lawyers, pshaw, don't you just love... to hate them.

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