Does anyone here subscribe to Private Eye? I do. It comes to me snail mail. It's an English periodical that has been pointing out hypocrisy for years.
They have a story on P. 26 in vol. 1549 about Archewell.
Archewell.com is entreatying people to send in their stories about "actioning compassion." You can see it right there on Archewell.com. They want you to share your story for a chance to be featured. Or, "you can describe a time you felt connected with friends, family or your community."
The problem Private Eye had is in the Terms and Conditions. A person who submits their uplifting experience to Archewell loses all copyright, gets no royalties, no nothing, worldwide, in perpetuity.
Archewell also has the right to edit, crop, revise and condense. The contributor is not entitled to any credit, consideration, payment of any kind. I'm a bit of a publishing novice, so you big city editors correct me if I have this wrong.
There's a whole lot more, but the big sticking point with Private Eye seems to be the potential legal obligations of the person who submits a story about compassion, in that you get one word wrong and someone sues Archewell, you are on the the hot seat and legally responsible for damages and court-ordered awards, even though you submitted a heartfelt post to a seemingly philanthropic group in the expectation you were building communities and hoping to share empathy with like-minded people. And they own your material and copyright.
See, The Terms and Conditions also spell out that the submitted stories may be used by the Archewell non-profit,
as well as the money-making LLC branch of the couple's interests, regards to publications, films, books etc. again, with no payment, public recognition, right of copyright or ... well, no coddling, that much is certain.
https://archewell.com/terms-conditions/