RE: "INDI.COM"
This outfit offers popularity contests. You need to bring all your fans to them for voting, and you may win a pittance of cash. But what do you lose in the bargain?
Their schools of lawyers have basically made your video belong to them, forever.
It took me three rounds of legal threats to get them to remove my short film. Even then, they may have just done it to get rid of small-time me, but would refuse if the video had been more successful.
There is no delete button.
You can upload, but you can't erase your own material from their servers. Ever.
Indi.com “Terms of Use”:
“4. Posting Content. (…) Except as otherwise expressly set forth in any Challenge Rules, by the act of submitting a video, comments, reviews, ideas or feedback through a challenge or otherwise on the Site, you hereby grant to Indi.com andits designees the irrevocable, fully paid-up, royalty free, sublicensable, transferable, perpetual,worldwide exclusive right and license to reproduce, distribute,transmit, publicly display and perform, modify, create derivativeworks of, synchronize, broadcast and generally use any such content(or parts thereof) ...”
http://indi.com/info/termsofuse
Accessed:8/22/2015, 8:30pm PST
“4. Posting Content. (…) Except as otherwise expressly set forth in any Challenge Rules, by the act of submitting a video, comments, reviews, ideas or feedback through a challenge or otherwise on the Site, you hereby grant to Indi.com andits designees the irrevocable, fully paid-up, royalty free, sublicensable, transferable, perpetual,worldwide exclusive right and license to reproduce, distribute,transmit, publicly display and perform, modify, create derivativeworks of, synchronize, broadcast and generally use any such content(or parts thereof) ...”
http://indi.com/info/termsofuse
Accessed:8/22/2015, 8:30pm PST
Let me translate that lawyer speak into plain English and put it through the vernacularizer:
FU$%^ THAT s*%t.
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