Dear Mr Gaiman, I would like to address the issues I have with the terms and conditions in the “Calender of Tales” Contest sponsored by Blackberry. I am aware that it is not yourself that drafted these terms but as you have blogged their response, I feel the need to respond here. How Blackberry has “explained” the terms is incorrect. If they intend to mean exactly what they say, then a change of terms is in order. Anything less is complete and dishonesty.Sure. Unfortunately, not everything moves at the speed of internet. So what they have done is write the explanation I posted, to make sure that people understand that there is no land grab or intellectual property grab intended or going to happen, while somewhere in the underground lake where they keep their lawyers a noble young lady of a proud BlackBerry clan has gone out in her canoe to catch a lawyer (she will have a net with her, they are slippery), who, once caught, will sit in a dank pit translating the Terms and Conditions into lawyer and out of lawyer again, and then giving the new version to the coding gnomes who will feed it into the website, which apparently involves a huge amount of heavy lifting and not working on the weekend.
So you are not going to see new Terms and Conditions until at least Monday. Which is why they sent me the big “Oh for heaven’s sake, we are neither evil nor stupid and this is what we are trying to do here” post that I put up earlier.
Having said that, if there really is anybody out there who is actually thinking, “I know what BlackBerry have said in their official statement and through Neil’s Tumblr but I do not believe them because obviously this is all a sneaky way to STEAL MY ART FOREVER!” I have several really brilliant conspiracy theories I would like to sell you.
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