Rights
Outside Keble College, Oxford
Today I have agreed to two reductions in the rights I would hold over two new areas for work that I intend making in the near future. The first is with Keble: my project with Keble in relation to the Oxford House exhibition in November has been granted an “official” status within the college. That’s of course great except that any image I make inside the college perimeter, in relation to access surrounding the project, can only be used in the exhibition itself or in the publicity for the exhibition. Which means of course that I won’t be able to use the work in any other area. Primarily it is because they are planning a big exhibition to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the College. Ho Hum.
Secondly, I have signed on to do a (very) short course on video editing and I have agreed that any work that I make there will be jointly owned by the school. And whilst I don’t think I’ll be making anything significant during the course, my diminution of rights happening twice in a day has rocked me a bit.
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I can understand Keble’s point of view but have never heard of a short course expecting this.
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No, but I comfort myself with low expectations and the short duration.
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We have reached this point when trying to protect our rights have shifted in a restriction of our own rights… We need some fresh thinking about all.
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It seems to me to be moneytising, about how to protect their “value-add” in order to develop capital from what they believe are possessions.
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