Unfriendly Clause About Duration of Grant

By uploading content such as photograph image files, Photographer Member agrees to give BigStockPhoto and all users irrevocable nonexclusive royalty-free rights to use the content for any purpose including publication, display, modification, and creation of derivative works. BigStockPhoto has the right to license any content up until the time Member removes the file from the Website. Once submitted to the Photo Approval Queue, Member may not remove photos from site until after they have been posted for 90 days, regardless of whether the Member chooses to terminate their account. Once content is uploaded to the Photo Approval Queue, Member must allow BigStockPhoto the opportunity to license uses for at least 90 days.

This agency, BigStockPhoto, allows members to upload their photographs on the web. Members must give BigStockPhoto the right to use the image for any purpose; BigStock does not pay the member. The author may remove her photo from the site, but not before 90 days. As long as the picture is posted on the website, BigStockPhoto can create new works using the member's photo.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you grant all of the foregoing rights irrevocably, and free of royalty or other participatory claim. The [publisher] may transfer, assign, or sublicense these rights without further permission from you.

This is a contract for an academic journal. It means that whatever rights the author gave up are granted forever, and the publisher doesn't have to pay anything for the rights. The contract also allows the publisher to transfer any or all of the rights it has under the contract to anyone else without asking or paying the author.

[Party 1] does not claim any ownership rights in any articles, information, materials, data, files, programs, photographs, concepts, communications, footage, ideas, opinions, and other materials ("Member Content") you post, store, or exchange through the [party 1] Site or Software; you continue to retain all ownership rights in such Member Content. Member Content is the sole responsibility of the person from which such Member Content originated. This means that you, and not [party 1], are entirely responsible for all Member Content that you upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available through the Site or Software, or on the Network or Web. To the extent that [party 1] provides you with an opportunity to post, store and exchange Member Content, you agree to and hereby do grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, [party 1], its contractors, and the users of the [party 1] Site an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully sublicensable, fully paid up, worldwide license to use, copy, publicly perform, digitally perform, publicly display, and distribute such content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such Member Content on the [party 1] Site or Software. This license does not grant [party 1] the right to sell Member Content or otherwise distribute it outside of [party 1's] Site and Software.

['Party 1'] is a website that enables musicians, photographers, and creators of video to promote their works on the internet. This license allows the non paid use of any materials the user uploads, forever and for the whole world. The contract also allows [party 1] and its users to alter or modify the posted work, and to incorporate it into other works. The license does not premit [party 1] to sell the works or distribute the material outside of its website, but it appears that members who use the site can download and exploit the material. It appears that the grant of rights persists even after the material is no longer on the website.