In other words, you lose all control over the images. I especially dislike the “authorize others to do so.” And there’s no apparent time limit. I wouldn’t do it.

 

 

Hello,

 

I am working with a production company that used images from our Photograph Collection in a documentary.  They are asking for an amendment to the Licensing Agreement they signed more than a year ago to include: “Non-theatrical, Internet, New Media, and In-Context Promotion.” While I believe the original agreement covers non-theatrical, internet, and in-contextual promotion (although in our language and not their legal department’s), the term “new media” is causing us a bit of concern.

 

They are defining New Media Rights as: “the unlimited rights to duplicate, display, stream, download, and otherwise distribute the Program and portions thereof, and to authorize others to do so, by all media on all wireless devices now known or hereafter developed, including cell phones.”

 

My question is, how are others handling such requests? And, are others giving this blanket permission for unknown, undeveloped technology?

Karen Keehr
Curator of Visual and Audio Collections
Nebraska State Historical Society
P.O. Box 82554
Lincoln, NE 68501-2554
402-471-4750
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