Ordering prints over the net at Costco Canada

[slm]

Hello Everyone, I have some scans and digital images I'd like to see printed, and thought I'd upload them to Costco and pick them up tomorrow. Well, I stopped at the terms and conditions for using the service. Apparently, you have license your images to the service to allow them to transmit them to your local Costco for printing. It's the wording in the license that is bothering me.

...a perpetual, universal, nonexclusive right to copy, display, modify, transmit, make derivative works of and distribute any content transmitted or provided to the Service by you, solely for the purpose of providing the Service...

You can see the whole terms and conditions here:

http://costco.pnimedia.com/terms.aspx

I really don't see why a perpetual right has to be assigned, and why we must grant the right to make "derivative works of"

I've used their developing/printing before and find the results to be excellent, but only dropping off the film at the store.

So, what does you think ? Do you use online services for printing (Costco or otherwise) ?

 

[BillBingham2]

Something sounds rotten in Canada there. I never thought to read the fine print. Now I have not used any online service yet, but this is a real heads up to read the fine print. I read this as they are stepping over the line of outright owning my images after I send them for printing. I'd have to read the entire thing before I make a call.

Some legal eagle out there help us with this interesting problem?

B2 (;->

 

[slm]

Looks like Walmart Canada and Astral Photo (Black's in provinces other than Quebec I believe) uses the same service for the transmission of photos, so subject to the same terms and conditions.

Is this a big deal or not ? Seems to me I've been reading lately, instances where photographers inadvertently giving up their rights to their photographs.