"What matters Most" photo comp, ends 21st June 08

[paulmac]

Folks

There is a photo competition being run by Relationships Australia and the Weekend Australian Magazine.

http://www.relationships.com.au/news-items/what-matters-most-photographic-competition.html

I'd like to point out that I have absolutely no connection with this. I was emailed the link, and I thought I'd pass it on.
I have not read the terms and conditions in the paper, and I don't know who keeps the rights to your pictures.


With a prize pool of $10,000, I thought there might be some interest...

[myarhidia]

including moral rights.....

Each entrant assigns to the Promoter all copyright and other intellectual property rights in each photo and description sent in as part of an entry in this competition. Each entrant acknowledges that the Promoter, as owner of the copyright in the photographs and descriptions, may reproduce the photographs and the descriptions in any media or marketing for any purpose without permission or payment. The entrants agree to waive all their rights, including moral rights, in the photographs entered by the entrants in this competition.

[paulmac]

There you go.

Ta muchly for finding the rules of entry.

For the benefit of me and I'm sure many others, I get the impression that this is this a fairly standard thing. How do you deal with this issue, apart from not entering?

[Reschsmooth]

For the benefit of me and I'm sure many others, I get the impression that this is this a fairly standard thing. How do you deal with this issue, apart from not entering?

What I have found is that, quite often, non-photographic organisations such as newspapers, Telcos, ISPs, Sony, etc have T&C which involve the entrant giving up all rights. Some would argue, cynically, that this is to provide the promotor cheap stock photos.

"Real" photographic competitions (Head On, Moran, etc) that I have seen tend to retain copyright with the photographer, only requiring limited promotional rights.