[Contest] FieldReport True Stories

mamawriter · Jun 19, 2008

Anyone know anything about this? I happened across the website this morning (http://www.fieldreport.com/contests) and...I dunno. I can't quite put my finger on it, but something seems not quite right.

They retain rights forever and ever amen, so that's off-putting, but even beyond that...again, I dunno. Anyone have more information? I searched around and all I could find were several contest anouncements on various sites; here's the one on AW: http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=103948&highlight=Fieldreport.

Thoughts??

victoriastrauss · Jun 19, 2008

I'm in the process of doing a blog post about FieldReport, and will post a link when it's done.

The short version: contest winners must surrender copyright, and simply submitting to the site grants a sweeping menu of rights which may encumber not just the submitted work, but future work, if it's derived from or related to the submitted work.

- Victoria

mamawriter · Jun 19, 2008

Thanks, Victoria! I'll look forward to reading your blog post.

victoriastrauss · Jun 20, 2008

Writer Beware's blog entry on FieldReport.

- Victoria

Old Hack · Jun 20, 2008

Fabulous post, Victoria. Words (almost!) fail me.

Khazarkhum · Jun 20, 2008

Read the About Us page. :Wha:

Several friends from a Poker site put this together. And they all live in San Francisco. If their bios are to be believed, some may have made money from the dot-coms, but that's not at all clear.

While I fully believe publishing is gambling, that's taking it a little too far!

para · Jun 21, 2008

Great Post Victoria. That is scary.

mamawriter · Jun 21, 2008

Thank you so much, Victoria! I really appreciate it, as I'm sure we all do.

CaoPaux · Aug 1, 2010

Site is currently "under construction", and looks like it's been so for some time.

Finchlark · Aug 2, 2010

As I recall a couple of years ago one of the guys suffered a personal tragedy and since then the site has been in limbo.

[Contest] FieldReport True Stories

mamawriter

NAK

victoriastrauss

Writer Beware Goddess

mamawriter

NAK

victoriastrauss

Writer Beware Goddess

Old Hack

Such a nasty woman

Khazarkhum

para

mamawriter

NAK

CaoPaux

Mostly Harmless

Finchlark