RICKY GERVAIS - “EXCLUSIVE”
As a pal of David Bowie Ricky Gervais has undoubtedly been introduced to the idea that copyright is a finite concept. Still, there is time to make hay while the sun shines. Click the small print on Ricky’s official website and these points pop up > Intellectual Property > > 8. The names, images and logos identifying Plumplard and Ricky Gervais > or third parties and their products and services are subject to > copyright, design rights and trade marks of Plumplard and Ricky > Gervais and/or third parties. Nothing contained in these terms shall > be construed as conferring by implication, estoppel or otherwise any > licence or right to use any trademark, patent, design right or > copyright of Ricky Gervais or any other third party. > > Contributions to rickygervais.com > > 9. Where you are invited to submit any contribution to > rickygervais.com (including any text, photographs, graphics, video or > audio) you agree, by submitting your contribution, to grant the Ricky > Gervais a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub-licenseable > right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, > translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, play, > make available to the public, and exercise all copyright and publicity > rights with respect to your contribution worldwide and/or to > incorporate your contribution in other works in any media now known or > later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in your > contribution, and in accordance with privacy restrictions set out in > the rickygervais.com Privacy Policy. If you do not want to grant the > rights set out above, please do not submit your contribution to > rickygervais.com. > > 10. Further to paragraph 9, by submitting your contribution to > rickygervais.com, you: > * 10.1 warrant that your contribution; > * 10.1.1 is your own original work and that you have the right to make > it available to the Ricky Gervais for all the purposes specified > above; > * 10.1.2 is not defamatory; and > * 10.1.3 does not infringe any law; and > * 10.2 indemnify the Ricky Gervais against all legal fees, damages and > other expenses that may be incurred by Ricky Gervais as a result of > your breach of the above warranty; and > * 10.3 waive any moral rights in your contribution for the purposes of > its submission to and publication on rickygervais.com and the purposes > specified above. Ricky is a ray of sunshine in a sad world, one the funniest guys in the Britcom room, long as Larry David isn’t visiting. I’m sure the generously proportioned fella no more needs, the jokes and pitches of his fans than he needs the name of a top quality cheese supplier. I’m also sure that in the new world of web paranoia, chiselling horse fixers, media bandits and the like the on his website terms are , or are becoming, commonplace on interactive websites. A test of how much you love your idols perhaps - give them your all, go to court for them - and pay all the costs. Doesn’t make it any more tasteful though. Because the terms above seem to suggest that Ricky not only owns any contributions to the site, but is also able to set the legal vultures on the contributor’s ass if said contributions cause legal proceedings to ensue when he USES them. Talk about having it both ways! Is he having a laugh ?
