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Scottish Nature Photography Awards 2018

The Scottish Nature Photography Awards Photographic Competition 2018 is open to professional and amateur photographers from around the world, but images must be taken in Scotland.

Entries close 24:00 hours GMT on Friday 30th November 2018.

This is the 9th annual competition to seek the Scottish Nature Photographer of the Year.

Winning images and videos will be featured in a Touring Exhibition in 2019. Winning and shortlisted images and videos will be featured in the Portfolio Yearbook 2018.

For further information please see our news post announcing the competition and visit the competition website.

This competition meets all the standards set out in the Artists Bill of Rights

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claim copyright
claim exclusive use
seek waiving of moral rights
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add, alter, or remove metadata from submissions
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seek free usage rights in excess of 5 years
use the submissions commercially without the entrant's agreement, and such commercial usage is to be subject to a freely negotiated license independently of the competition.
make it a condition of winning that an entrant must sign a commercial usage agreement
fail to publish all documents on the competition website that an entrant may have to sign
fail to name the judges for this or last year's competition
fail to explicitly state all the organisations who will acquire rights to the submissions
set a closing date more than 18 months after the contest launch date
fail to make clear statements of rights claimed and how submissions are used.

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