The Competition
Microsoft; Ford Fiesta Art Competition
Ends 30 November 2008
The Rules of this Contest
Listed below are extracts from the rules of this competition. These extracts detail the rights being claimed from entrants.
"11) Microsoft does not claim ownership of any Artwork Entry and Entrants retain all copyright and moral rights in their Artwork Entry. However for the purposes of the Competition, fulfilment of the Artwork Competition Prize and promotional purposes connected solely and exclusively with the Competition, Entrants grant to Microsoft and the entities professionally involved in this Competition (including without limitation Ford Motor Company Limited and News International Newspapers Limited) the worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free right to make copies, reproduce, modify for presentational or formatting purpose, distribute, publish, promote or otherwise use the Artwork Entry in all media until 31 December 2009 (upon such date the licence granted by the Entrant pursuant to this Paragraph 9 shall expire). The Promoter and Ford Motor Company Limited agree to credit the Artwork Entry as the Entrant’s work in all commercial usage of such Artwork Entry. Entrants agree to their name being used in this manner. Any commercial opportunities which arise in respect of the Artwork Entry excluding those connected with the Competition only will be notified to the Entrant who will be free to negotiate terms independently."
"17) The Artwork Competition Winner will win £2,000 worth of Eyestorm vouchers (www.eyestorm.com) and have their Artwork Entry published in the Sunday Times Style Magazine and may be included in a television advertisement for the Ford Fiesta This Is Now campaign (the “Artwork Competition Prize”). No cash alternative is available. Microsoft will not pay any Entrant for the use of their Artwork Entry in relation to this Competition."
This contest meets every requirement of the The Bill of Rights.
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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