Scottish Nature Photography Awards 2026
See full details of the competition, prizes, rules, and how to enter at: https://scottishnaturephotographyawards.com
This competition meets all the standards set out in the
Artists' Bill of Rights
Competitions which meet all the standards set out in the Bill of Rights For Artists do not do any of the following -
- claim copyright
- claim exclusive use
- seek a waiver of moral rights
- fail to give credit for any free usage
- add, alter, or remove metadata from submissions
- seek usage rights other than for contest promotion and for no other purpose. Note that a book, posters, cards, or a calendar are seen as legitimate ways of promoting the contest and defraying costs
- seek free usage rights in excess of 3 years
- use the submissions commercially without the entrant's agreement, and such commercial usage is to be subject to a freely negotiated license independent 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 usage 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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