CaptSpiffy
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Apparently Sony Animation is almost, if not more of a pile of dicks than Sony Online Entertainment and Sony Computer Entertainment.
There's more here: http://blog.drawn.ca/post/36147847020/does-sony-pictures-own-your-art-portfolio
But seriously, fuck these guys. I know that work is hard to find, ESPECIALLY in art fields, but this is so fucked up, it's not even funny.
Sony Pictures (“SPE”) have posted jobs on their site for storyboard artists and visual development artists, but you might want to read the terms closely before you apply. Mark Mayerson did, and his analysis suggests you may want to look elsewhere for work:
[…] Sony takes ownership of your portfolio material when you apply for the job. If you are submitting samples of work you have done for other companies, Sony wants you to assign the rights to them. You clearly don’t have the authority to do that for work you don’t own, so that means that you are not legally allowed to show Sony work you’ve done for other companies. Sort of defeats the purpose of a submission portfolio, doesn’t it? What’s clearly disturbing though, is that any original work in your portfolio becomes their property. This does not depend on whether they hire you or not, they get ownership because you applied.
There's more here: http://blog.drawn.ca/post/36147847020/does-sony-pictures-own-your-art-portfolio
But seriously, fuck these guys. I know that work is hard to find, ESPECIALLY in art fields, but this is so fucked up, it's not even funny.