“Cape Le Grand and Lucky Bay remains the best place to visit in the West, according to visitors to the RAC’s new travel website, 101WA.com.au,” this West story began.
“Rottnest Island has jumped up the voting to fourth place over the festive period.”
Like any decent, quokka-loving, right-thinking, sensible Sandgroper we trotted over to the website to do our bit for WA’s bit of paradise.
It was a bit tedious, as you had to register, and it seems only RAC members can participate.
You can upload photos and win a prize, though (a trip to Broome). Not quite as good as a trip to Rotto and unlimited time at the Brett Heady Family Fun Centre, but never mind. We started rummaging through the folders to see what we could submit.
But then we saw this charmless 105-word sentence in the RAC’s terms and conditions:
‘Where you are invited to submit any contribution to this site (including without limitation any text, graphics, video or audio) you are required by such submission to grant the RAC a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sublicenseable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, play, and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to any such work worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in such content, consistent with privacy restrictions set forth in the RAC's Privacy Policy. ‘
What bullshit. What content creator would agree to that?
‘If you do not wish to grant such rights to the RAC, it is suggested that you do not submit your contribution to this site.’
Too right. We voted for the beautiful island, but commented to the RAC that their copyright policy sucked.
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