The Competition
Photobox; Photograph Urban Britain
Ends 4 December 2008
Listed below are extracts from the rules of this competition. These extracts are only from those rules that are subject to the provisions in the Bill of Rights.
"Images submitted may be used by The First Post and Photobox solely to promote the competition and may be used within a five year period. This includes the images being featured in web albums, plus a photo book that will be given to all the winners and runners up, and may also be sold through Photobox. All images in this photo book will of course be credited and the copyright remains with each photographer.
The Winners will be selected by The First Post Picture Editor and their decision is final. The winners will then be announced by email and winning photos will be featured on both The First Post and Photobox websites."
Pro-Imaging Comment
This competition meets all of the criteria listed in the bullet points above and is recommended.
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 the works
- 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 works commercially without the creators 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 works
- set a closing date more than 18 months after the contest launch date
- fail to make clear statements of rights claimed and how the works are used
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