Sharing my photos

Going through my twitter feed this morning, I came across a tweet from British Airways suggesting that people upload their “stunning cloud photos taken from a British Airways flight” to the BA Business Life gallery. OK, I thought, I’ve got a couple of good ones, including this shot I took from on board BA’s first Boeing 787 delivery flight, just after leaving Seattle. Going to the Business Life site I clicked on the terms and conditions. The first clause was pretty much as expected:

1. By submitting your photographs you agree to grant Cedar Communications and British Airways a perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable, non-exclusive, sub-licensable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, create derivative works from, distribute, make available to the public…. etc etc

But then I got to clause 1.2:

1.2. To the extent permitted by law, you waive your moral rights (e.g. the right to be identified as the author or to object to derogatory treatment) in your Content.

WTF? No attribution is already a pretty nasty clause. But waiving my rights to object to derogatory treatment? Well, since British Airways is part of International Airlines Group, my employers, I won’t criticise them. I guess the terms and conditions are spelt out clearly and nobody is obliged to submit their photos if they don’t want to. But it certainly put me off and so I am sharing this photo via my blog, where I don’t have to waive my rights just to share a photo with the world.

And on the off-chance that BA would like to reuse this photo and is prepared to discuss less onerous terms, I think you know where to find me!