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Stay away from this, unless you want to give away all of your photography to Wal*Mart Canada Corporation for its use and profit.

Excerpt from the terms and conditions one is required to accept before creating an account:

“You grant to Wal*Mart Canada Corp. a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, unrestricted, world-wide right and license to access, use, copy, reproduce, distribute, transmit, display, perform, communicate to the public, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, and otherwise use such Materials (in whole or in part) in connection with the Site and/or the Products, using any form, media or technology now known or later developed, without providing compensation to you or any other person, without any liability to you or any other person, and free from any obligation of confidence or other duties on the part of Wal*Mart, its affiliates and their respective licensees;”

(see http://www.walmartphotocentre.ca/disclaimers/terms.aspx)

-ben

Wow..as a photographer...I think I’m going to puke.

Ben, you should not upload anywhere then - all that the sites I have been to have the same clause:
Blacks"You grant to the Web Site and its service providers and licensees a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, unrestricted, world-wide right and license to access, use, copy, reproduce, distribute, transmit, display, perform, communicate to the public, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, and otherwise “
Costco USA:
Accordingly, as a condition to your Membership, you hereby grant Costco Photo a perpetual, universal, nonexclusive right to copy, display, modify, transmit, make derivative works of and distribute any content transmitted or provided to the Services by you…

This is a great offer picked up my Free prints next day.

CanuckX: I have printed photos both with photo-service.ca (Dumoulin) and photolab.ca (Loblaws), and neither has such draconian policies.

https://www.photo-service.ca/condition.php?send=eng
http://www.photolab.ca/disclaimers/terms.aspx

It is hilarious and offensive that any photography shop would attempt to take control of a customer’s work.  Obviously, Black’s is not interested in professionals (nor Costco nor Wal-mart).

-ben

Good to know - most of them do, but Loblaw’s works for me - thanks Ben.

CanuckX, for a image hosting site sure, but not for printing photo.  costco usa’s term is specifically for providing the service (printing photo).  it’s not saying they own the pictures you uploaded.

on the costco canada:
“You remain the owner of all content that you submit to the Service and as a condition to use, you represent and warrant to PhotoChannel that you are the owner of the copyright to content you submit to the Service or that you have written permission from the copyright owner to submit such content.”

Hmm, very good point on the the intellectual property loss on the Wal-Mart site.  Thanks zygoat.... (Ben).  Hope my stuff is too banal to re-use in a corporate manner.

so here’s an idea...after you order them...delete them from the album…

Once you upload your photos they store them in their database. By deleting them that just makes it unavailable to you not them.

so then just take crappy pictures...and they won’t want to use them…

yes… I am going to get my mediocre photos that I normally wouldn’t pay to get printed from this offer… Hey Walmart.. help yourself.

I don’t see where I get the free prints from after I signed up.

About picture ownership:

Them corporations would only want on the safer side.  Its us against them, like if one person attempted to file charges, it will prosper all the way to court and get junk right after.  A waste of time and money for the company.

This photo upload feature may be for basic consumer use and for professional use.  Maybe, if photogs goes digital, there is no way they can protect their pictures anymore.

Wal-Mart is evil.
http://www.walmartnation.com/

I followed the instructions, but when I went to checkout, I was being charged 19 cents for each print..

Just curious, what if I print in-store? Do they have this kind of agreement?

I’m with the shocked crowd on this, not surprised, just sick. Glad I read the comments first

I encoutered the same problem as gillnancy79. I followed the instructions and the screen shows 50free prints credit added to my account. however when I checked out, I was still being charged 19/c for each.
Can anybody help me? thanks!
JessieJ

omg! Walmart service line never get you through… I’ve been keeping waiting for more than 15 min!!!!!!! the annoying adervertisement is still singing....

finally, got it..

i went...picked it up...hassle free...not sure what walmart’s gonna do with 24 pictures of alphabets spelling different things…

worst quality I have ever seen… it’s my first time to print @ WM, and it must be the last time.

So when it shows my total that I will owe for the pictures , is that already after my 50 free pictures???

I signed up and went through the email that was sent to me and still no free prints offer.  Must I go through the entire upload/order process to continue?

Typically corporation, trying to gain ownership of everything they can (all your photos on facebook now belong to that company too)

Same here...no credit appears and a charge of .19 per print..  AAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGGGG!

I’m also not seeing the 50 free prints? those of you who got this working, what are we missing here? thanks.