Deviant Art, new agreement Options

[NickTheGreek]

[news]After a recent management takeover Deviantart have decided to put in place a new art submission agreement which was supposed to have been agreed by a large number of artists. I have no idea who was on the committee and decided on the wording but In my opinion this must contravene so many copyright laws it's incredible.[/news]

Here are the parts of the agreement that are dubious at best and very grey in legality in my opinion:

"As and when Artist Materials are uploaded to the deviantART Site(s), Artist grants to deviantART a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to do the following things during the Term:

1. to prepare and encode Artist Materials or any part of them for digital or analog transmission, manipulation and exhibition in any format and by any means now known or not yet known or invented;
2. to display, copy, reproduce, exhibit, publicly perform, broadcast, rebroadcast, transmit, retransmit, distribute through any electronic means (including analog and digital) or other means, and electronically or otherwise publish any or all of the Artist Materials, including any part of them, and to include them in compilations for publication, by any and all means and media now known or not yet known or invented ;
3. to modify, adapt, change or otherwise alter the Artist Materials (e.g., change the size) and use the Artist Materials as described in Section 3 ( ; and
4. the right to sublicense to any other person or company any of the licensed rights in the Artist Materials, or any part of them, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
5. Artist acknowledges that Artist will not have any right, title, or interest in any materials with which Artist Materials may be combined or into which all or any portion of Artist Materials may be incorporated.."

If we have any lawyers in the forum I would love to hear their opinion on these passages.