Nasty hackathon terms and conditions: Sydney Opera House hackathon

[Glen Newton]

"Sydney Opera House to devs: build our app for peanuts, wear patent pain"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/18/sydney_opera_house_to_devs_build_our_app_for_free_wear_patent_pain/


1 - Clause k: “that, by submitting your Entry in this Hackathon, you
warrant that your Entry is your original work which does not infringe
the intellectual property rights of any third party and assign, on
creation, any intellectual property rights in the Entry to the Sydney
Opera House Trust and agree to sign any necessary documentation that
may be required for us and our designees to make use of the rights you
granted.”

2 - “in the event you breach the warranty set out in paragraph k)
above, you indemnify the Sydney Opera House Trust, its officers,
employees, contractors and agents against any and all claims that your
Entry infringes on the intellectual property rights of any third
party.”

3 - “By entering this Hackathon, you agree that use of information in
our representatives’ unaided memories in the development or deployment
of our products or services does not create liability for us”

Wow. Basing future liability on someone else's memory _in_a_contract_?

-Glen
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[Russell McOrmond-4]

Once you allow information or mental processes to be patentable, all sorts of nonsense results.. 

The fault lies with the politicians who haven't clearly fixed this bug in the law (and put the offensive proponents in their proper place in society), not the Opera house trying to protect themselves from broken law.

Let's please direct our well founded disgust to the proper malfeasants.

On Nov 19, 2013 1:07 PM, "Glen Newton" <[hidden email]> wrote:

"Sydney Opera House to devs: build our app for peanuts, wear patent pain"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/18/sydney_opera_house_to_devs_build_our_app_for_free_wear_patent_pain/


1 - Clause k: “that, by submitting your Entry in this Hackathon, you
warrant that your Entry is your original work which does not infringe
the intellectual property rights of any third party and assign, on
creation, any intellectual property rights in the Entry to the Sydney
Opera House Trust and agree to sign any necessary documentation that
may be required for us and our designees to make use of the rights you
granted.”

2 - “in the event you breach the warranty set out in paragraph k)
above, you indemnify the Sydney Opera House Trust, its officers,
employees, contractors and agents against any and all claims that your
Entry infringes on the intellectual property rights of any third
party.”

3 - “By entering this Hackathon, you agree that use of information in
our representatives’ unaided memories in the development or deployment
of our products or services does not create liability for us”

Wow. Basing future liability on someone else's memory _in_a_contract_?

-Glen
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