This is what you are agreeing to on the site (I seperated the sentences so it becomes barely more readable):
Bitcoinpride.com Design Submission Legal Terms & Conditions Last Revised March 6th, 2013 By selecting "I Agree" below and in consideration of bitcoinpride.com evaluating your Design (hereinafter the "Design") for its possible use on clothing and future product graphics (the "Items"), you agree to the following terms and conditions ("Design Submission Terms and Conditions"):
If your Design is selected for use by bitcoinpride.com, you acknowledge that you assign to BitcoinPride and its subsidiaries and affiliates (hereinafter collectively "bitcoinpride.com")
the entire right, title, and interest in and to the copyright in your Design including the right to sue for past infringement and the right to further sublicense the Design, for its sole and exclusive use on and in connection with the Items.
You also acknowledge that you waive all "moral" rights that you may have in and to your Design.
If your Design is selected, bitcoinpride.com may use your Design in any manner on or in connection with the Items, including but not limited to: reproducing the Design on the Items, selling Items bearing the Design, changing or reworking the Design by making color or size changes, making derivative works of the Design, using the Design on the bitcoinpride.com website and on promotional material for bitcoinpride.com, and registering the Design with the US Copyright Office in the name of BitcoinPride as the Claimant, and you as the Author.
You agree to provide bitcoinpride.com with minimal information as may be required in order to register the copyright in the Design if bitcoinpride.com so requests, at no cost.
You may use or continue to use the Design for any other purposes, except those described below.
If your Design is selected, you may not use the Design (or derivatives of the Design) or allow others to use the Design (or derivatives of the Design) on any Items, as described above.
In addition, by submitting your Design, you may not reproduce, sell, or submit the Design to others for any commercial purpose for ninety (90) days after the date of submission while the Design is being evaluated by bitcoinpride.com.
Once the ninety (90) days have passed, if your Design is not chosen for print by bitcoinpride.com, you are free to use the Design for any commercial or non-commercial purpose.
However if your Design is used elsewhere, you must notify bitcoinpride.com by email at
support@bitcoinpride.com about where and when the Design will be used, so that it can be removed from the bitcoinpride.com website at that time.
In addition, if the Design is used or reproduced for commercial purposes elsewhere, you cannot use the bitcoinpride.com design page to promote the Design or the company using the Design.
You further agree not to use the bitcoinpride.com design page to promote the products and services of any company that operates in competition with bitcoinpride.com.
Bitcoinpride.com reserves the right to choose your design after the (90) days have passed, on the condition that the design has not been used for commercial purposes on any Items, as described above.
You acknowledge that the Design you are assigning to bitcoinpride.com is your own original work, has not been previously published, and does not contain any trademarks, logos, copyrighted material, or any other intellectual property belonging to any third party, or any material, which bitcoinpride.com in its sole discretion, deems to be profane or offensive.
You acknowledge that bitcoinpride.com reserves the right to decline to select a Design for consideration for any reason, including poor design, as further explained in the "Decline Reasons" page of the bitcoinpride.com website, which are subject to change at any time. If your Design is selected for use by bitcoinpride.com, you will receive: $250 cash/BTC and a $50 bitcoinpride.com Gift Certificate. Bitcoinpride.com reserves the right to
change these payment terms at any time, by posting them on the bitcoinpride.com website, and changes will be effective upon posting.
Payment will be based on the terms in effect when your Design is selected. You alone will be responsible for the payment of any tax that arises as a result of receiving payment from bitcoinpride.com. Payment will be sent within ninety (90) days after bitcoinpride.com receives hi-resolution artwork deemed suitable for print. If the hi-resolution artwork is not deemed suitable for print as determined by bitcoinpride.com, bitcoinpride.com will notify you of the reason(s) for its determination by email and will make a good-faith effort to assist you in presenting a suitable hi-resolution format. Participants, who in the opinion of bitcoinpride.com, do not comply with these Design Submission Legal Terms and Conditions, or for any other reason at bitcoinpride.com"s sole discretion, can at any time be excluded from consideration without notice. The decisions of bitcoinpride.com are final and binding.
This is an untenable contract. You demand people not use their work for 90 days, when they have neither assigned any copyright or license to you, nor entered into any compensated arrangement. Unenforceable.
You want to sue people for "prior use"? So the person that uploaded the "rendered bitcoin logo" (who is most certainly not the creator) in some way gives you the ability to sue reddit or other places it was used, or even sue the uploader or creator for their own prior use of the artwork?
You can change anything at any time? So after you get stuff uploaded to your site you can change the terms, like the contest reward is now 0.0001 BTC and everything uploaded becomes "selected" and the copyright is transferred to you, or even easier, "anything previously uploaded is now ours to use in perpetuity"?
Hell no. I recommend people stick to what they've been doing, uploading the copyrighted works of others. Domain providers like to take down not just domains, but entire domain accounts, when they get DMCA notices.
