Hugh Pickens writes "In a few weeks, tens of thousands of ingenious people will make their yearly pilgrimage to Nevada's Black Rock desert for Burning Man, an annual art event and interim populace celebrating radical self expression, self-reliance, creativity and freedom, but EFF reports that the event's Terms and temperature include "a remarkable bit of legal sleight-of-hand." As soon as "any third party displays or disseminates" your photos or videos in a manner that the Burning Man kind (BMO) doesn't like, those photos or videos become the acreage of the BMO. BMO's Terms and temperature also limits your own rights to use your own photos and videos on any public websites obliging you to take down any photos to which BMO objects, for any reason; and unhospitable you from allowing anyone else to reuse your photos. This "we automatically own all your stuff" magic appears to be ingenious lawyering intended to allow the BMO to use the streamlined "notice and takedown" process enshrined in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to quickly remove photos from the the net* giving BMO the power of fast and easy online censorship. "Burning Man strives to especially by merrymaking.
rejoice our individuality, creativity and free spirit," writes Corynne McSherry. "Unfortunately, the fine print on the tickets doesn't live up to that aspiration.""

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