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

[Denver Gingerich]

On 9/20/07, Brian Rowe <brian at freedomforip.org> wrote:
> 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

What action should we take?

Denver