Bands Beware

[matt schrauben]

I know some of you on here are in bands yourself. I came across the "Get our of the Garage" promotion that is being put on by Converse and Guitar Center. The terms and conditions of it are so ridiculous and one-sided that our band felt the need to notify others.

On the surface the promotion sounds good:

Submit your music and you could win:
$25,000
A show at the Fader Fort in Texas
A 3 song EP Produced by Dev Hynes
Some free Gear
Free worldwide digital distribution from TuneCore.


However the terms and conditions give Guitar Center and Converse (and whoever else maybe associated) the complete right to anything you submit (including music) without your permission or compensation, perpetually. Take a look at them:

Subject to the application of the Privacy Policy to personal data, any Materials you send to this Site, including, but not limited to, any data, questions, comments, suggestions, ideas or other information, material or property will be deemed non-confidential and non-proprietary. You agree that by submitting Materials to the Site, you are granting us and any and all of our Related Parties the non-exclusive, irrevocable right and license to exhibit, broadcast, copy, reproduce, encode, compress, encrypt, incorporate data into, edit, rebroadcast, transmit, record, publicly perform, create derivative works of, and distribute and synchronize in timed relation to visual elements, the Materials and/or any portions or excerpts thereof, in any manner, an unlimited number of times, in any and all media, now known or hereafter devised, throughout the world, in perpetuity. We may use the Materials to advertise, promote and publicize any of our or our Related Parties' worldwide products and/or services and/or any Site in all media throughout the universe and may authorize others to do so, such advertising, promotion and publicity which may include portions and excerpts, in addition to cut-in, synchronized, dubbed and superimposed versions of the Materials. You acknowledge that we may use the Materials in accordance with the permission granted herein without notice and WITHOUT COMPENSATION, royalty, accounting, liability or obligation of any kind to you.

Just want to give a fair warning to anyone who may have seen this and is in a band. Metul.

 

[hagenmusic]

So basically they can steal from you. Awesome.
Thanks for the heads up.