The Competition
PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris
Ends 16 January 2009
The Rules of this Contest
Listed below are extracts from the rules of this competition. These extracts detail the rights being claimed from entrants.
"The winner’s work is publicized and exhibited in Paris and published in the Px3 Annual Book.
Winning photographs from the 1st and 2nd place winners in each MAJOR category from both the professional and non-professional entries will be publicized and exhibited in Paris.
The work of the 1st and 2nd place winners from both the professional and non-professional Subcategories will be published in the high-quality, full-color Px3 Annual Book (includes Major Category winners). The names of the Honorable Mention recipients and the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Place Subcategory Public Choice Winners will be included as well.
8. Q: What is the Px3 Copyright policy & How can Px3 use my photographs?
A: The organization has the right to use your submitted photographs for the annual exhibition(s) if you are a winner. Px3 may also use your work for marketing and promotional purposes directly related to Px3 only, with the photographer's approval and appropriate citation/credit.
11. Q: Where will the prints go after the exhibit?
A: We will try to have a traveling show for one year in any possible not for profit organization and exhibition spaces. The prints will be archived at Px3 safe storage for possible inclusion in "Best Of 5, 10, etc. Years" Shows OR photographers may request that Px3 destroy or return the prints. On the back of each print, there is stamp that says: "Not for sale/Return to Px3."
For further information please visit the competition website.
Complies with the Bill of Rights
This competition meets all the standards set out in
the Bill of Rights For Artists
Competitions which comply with the conditions set out in the Bill of Rights For Artists do not -
- claim copyright
- seek waiving of moral rights
- fail to give a credit for all free usage
- add, alter, or remove metadata from digital images
- seek usage rights other than for solely and exclusively promoting the contest. 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 images commercially without the photographers agreement, and such commercial usage is to be rights managed and limited to 3 years.
- 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 images
- set a closing date more than 18 months after the contest launch date
- fail to make clear statements of rights claimed and how images are used
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