[FC-discuss] Grammy Foundation and Legal Writing competition for Law Students

[Brian Rowe]

The Entertainment Law Initiative Writing Competition, sponsored by the
GRAMMY Foundation, REQUIRES authors to yield all ownership rights to their
work to the Grammy foundation.

Condition 11 states:

"Each manuscript submitted shall be accompanied by a letter from the author
in which he or she certifies that the article submitted has not had prior
publication, that it is original work prepared by the author alone for this
contest, and that the *author transfers ownership to the GRAMMY Foundation*.
This type of a default authorship agreement points out one of the major
problems that exists the current entertainment industry, authors rights
often subjugated to middle men with no provisions to distribute the work the
the larger community allowing it to be locked away for a price.

More information here:
http://www.freedomforip.org/2007/09/grammy-foundation-overzealous-in-taking.html
-- 
Brian Rowe
Brian at freedomforip.org
(206) 335-8577 (Cell)

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www.ATJWeb.org

Freedom for IP
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