AAdvantage Milestones; User Submissions; ongoing
AAdvantage Milestones; User Submissions
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
This is not a contest. It is simply an appeal to submit photos on the AAdvantageMilestones website where it states "Have a great photo you want to share with the world? We'd love to see it. To get started, just follow the instructions below" AAdvantage is the frequent flyer program of American Airlines.
The terms and conditions, which can be found as a miniscule link at the bottom of the page, detail the rights those who submit images (using their password) grant to American Airlines, Inc. American Airlines are referred to as "American" in the terms and conditions. The terms and conditions are quite extraordinary in the greedy demands they make of the users rights. The user is just invited to make a submission "we'd love to see it" they say. But the user is not referred in the invite to the terms and conditions for User Submissions, only to the privacy policy.
Here are some of the terms and conditions -
Any material submitted to the Website using your password are collectively referred to as "User Submissions."
1. By providing any User Submissions to the Website, you hereby grant American the following rights:
(a) An irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, fully-paid-up, royalty-free perpetual license under any copyright, trademark, right of publicity, right of privacy and other right in or relating to any User Submission to modify or create derivative works based upon such User Submissions and to use, copy, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce and otherwise exploit such User Submissions and any such modifications or derivative works, including, without limitation, the title(s) and each and every element of the User Submissions or of any such modification or derivative work, in whole or in part, in any and all manner and media (whether now known or hereafter invented or discovered) and for any purpose, including, without limitation, on the Website and in advertising, publicity, promotional and marketing materials;
(b) An irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, fully-paid-up, royalty-free perpetual right to use your name, voice, image, likeness, signature and biographical data in connection with any User Submissions and any promotional activity, including, without limitation, on the Website and in credits, advertising, publicity, promotional and marketing materials; and
(c) An irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, fully-paid-up, royalty-free perpetual right to sublicense or assign or otherwise transfer to any other person or entity any rights granted by you under these Terms and Conditions.
2. You hereby acknowledge and agree that:
(a) American shall have the right to arrange, organize, classify and categorize any User Submissions and any modifications thereof or derivative works based thereon in any way it desires in American's sole discretion;
(b) American shall have the right to publish or display commentary or criticism submitted by other Users regarding or relating to any User Submission in American's sole discretion, and you waive any claims against American based upon any such commentary or criticism, including, without limitation, any claims for defamation;
(c) American shall not have any obligation to provide you with any credit when using any of your User Submissions, but in the event American chooses to provide you with credit the size and placement of the credit shall be at American's sole discretion;
(d) No confidential or fiduciary relationship exists between you and American, and no such relationships have been established by reasons of these Terms and Conditions or by reason of your submission of any User Submissions to American;
(e) To the maximum extent permitted under applicable law, you hereby waive any "droit moral" or "moral rights" that you may have in any User Submissions, and, accordingly, you hereby approve any and all uses, public performances, public displays, publications, reproductions and other exploitations of the User Submissions or of any modifications of or derivative works based thereon that American or any successor or transferee thereof or any third party sublicensed or otherwise authorized by American or any successor or transferee thereof, directly or indirectly, may make, and you expressly agree that no such uses, public performances, public displays, publications and other exploitations will or may cause harm to your honor or reputation and that no modification of or derivative works based upon any User Submissions by American or any successor or transferee thereof or by any third party sublicensed or otherwise authorized by American or any successor or transferee thereof, directly or indirectly, will be deemed to constitute a distortion or mutilation of any User Submissions;
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10. You shall not have the right to assign or otherwise transfer these Terms and Conditions or any of your rights, obligations or duties of performance herein and any such assignment or other transfer shall be null and void unless expressly accepted by American in writing, in its sole discretion. These Terms and Conditions are binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the respective permitted sublicensees, successors, heirs and permitted assigns of the parties hereto.
HOW THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS WILL AFFECT YOU
The following notes explain how the above terms and conditions affect your rights in respect of any works you submit to the above competition or appeal.
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The terms and conditions require you to waive your moral rights. This means you will not be able to object to how your work is used in future, such as it being altered in a manner you may find derogatory, or if it is used to promote a product or cause you find objectionable. You have also lost your right to be credited as the author of your work.
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The terms and conditions do not state you will always be credited when your work is reproduced. One of your most important moral rights is that you should be credited as the author of a work whenever it is reproduced.
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The terms and conditions are granting the organiser unlimited use of your work for ever.
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The terms and conditions grant the organiser the unlimited rights to use your work. For further information on fees and licensing refer to the Introduction to Rights and Licensing.
For the above reasons you should not submit any works to this appeal. For further guidance please read the Bill of Rights for Artists.
SPONSORS
Not applicable
CONTACT
Use this form to contact AAdvantageMilestones.
Use this form to contact American Airlines.
To visit the competition website click the competition title above to submit the free image we have created. Note that the competition link may cease to work at some point after the competition results are announced.
You can help the Bill of Rights campaign by complaining to the organiser urging them to change their terms and conditions. If time is at a premium for you we have prepared a complaint email which you can copy and send to the organiser. Alternatively, or as well as, you can submit the free image we have prepared to register your complaint simply by entering the free image to the contest.
Where a contest automatically displays entrants images on the contest website as they arrive you can use the free image to test the competition and determine if it is stripping metadata. The test results can be submitted to a survey by the Controlled Vocabulary Group.
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Updated on 22 Sep 2009
Wikipedia 
Competitions or appeals seeking submissions of creative works from the public, works such as photos, videos, poems, music, etc., are reviewed by the Bill of Rights campaign. The reviews are to help you decide whether you should participate in the competition or appeal. The only thing you need to understand is that when you create a work (e.g. a photo) the law automatically makes you the sole beneficiary of certain rights over that work (but see note 1 below). These rights are called intellectual property rights.
