FanLib contests and author's rights

Crossposting from FanNation's forums.

This is for my fellow FanLibbers mostly, but anyone can weigh in on it.

Someone is researching author's rights after a contest, and they're interested in what happened to the stories that were part of FanLib's contests like KvP. Did you lose your rights to your story if you didn't make the cut? For other contests, did you retain your rights to post the story you wrote elsewhere? I'm not talking about the member contests, but the official tie-in contests, like with Weeds and Dexter.

Reason is that Britney Spears's label is running a fanfiction contest, and the rules are - to my mind anyway - pretty scary. All entries are considered "work for hire" and not only do the authors lose all rights to their stories, they also lose their rights to privacy. Someone is writing a blog entry about it, and wanted to know some details.

Please reply ASAP, either here or by email.

Thanks!

The fast weather moves fast.

Just had a thunderstorm with some really wicked lightning and pea to nickel-sized hail (it's still melting on our welcome mat). Watched it come from the NE as I took Boy #1's friend home, and raced it back to shut down the computers and even take the modem offline. It literally blew on through within about 15 minutes and now all I hear are the echoes as it heads toward Spartanburg.