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For a competition to appear on this list it must have met all the conditions detailed in The Bill of Rights for photographers. Pro Imaging recommend competitions on this list to all photographers. Competitions which fail one or more conditions in The Bill of Rights are initially placed on the Photo Competitions - Investigated list. Subsequently, we write to the organisers of some of the competitions on the Investigated list detailing our concerns, and urging them to change their rules. The outcome of this attempt at persuasion appears on the The Rights Off List when the organiser either refuses to adjust their rules, or simply fails to respond. If you are thinking of entering a competition that is not on one of our two main lists, the Investigated list, and The Rights On List. please notify Pro-Imaging by using our competitions campaign contact form This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it and remember to give us a link to the competition's web site. We will investigate all competitions that are notified to us within a day or so, but please understand that we may not be able to personally reply to all the notifications we receive. If you do take time to notify us of photographic competitions may we take the opportunity now to thank you for your help. Pro-Imaging are keen to find competitions that pass all our Bill of Rights tests, they will all be listed here on this page. Over time the aim is that photographers throughout the world will only enter competitions on this list and ignore the others. When that happy day arrives the rights grabbers will be starved of entries and will simply disappear! Don't miss reading our Bill of Rights Poem. N E W ! See the full list of failed competitions in the new Investigated list. The Rights On List
International Year of the Potato ends 1 September 2008 This prestigious competition with good prizes promoted by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and sponsored by Nikon Europe sets an excellent example of a competition which fully respects the intellectual property rights of the entrants. It actually exceeds the conditions in the Pro-Imaging Bill of Rights in that it only requires the non-exclusive right to use the photos for 12 months from the date of announcement of the winners. We hope all member countries of the United Nations take a lead from the U.N. and that contests organised or sponsored by governments or government agencies follow this excellent example.
The Foto8 Award and Summer Show 2008 ends 24 May 2008 This contest meets all the requirements of a good contest. Initially you submit either small proof prints or small jpegs for intial judging. The 100+ best entries will be shortlisted for an exhibition, for which you will need to supply a framed or mounted print to exhibition standard. If you wish your initial submissions returned you supply a stamped addressed envelope. The entries submitted for the ehibition with the proceeds split between the photographer and HOST Gallery. At the exhibition the 'Best in Show' will be slected by the judges, the winner receiving £1000.00
Nikon Small World Competition ends 30 April 2008 This prestigious annual contest promoted by Nikon has been running since 1977 and is a celebration of both the technical excellence and artistic expression involved in creating scientific imagery. Images must have been taken through a microscope using any of the techniques of light microscopy. Nikon made clear that any commercial opportunities that may arise with regard to the winning entries will be passed to the submitting photographer and negotiated without Nikon's involvement. This is an excellent policy that we would urge all competition sponsors and promoters to adopt. Winning images only in this contest will be retained by Nikon solely for the purposes of promoting this contest and will be exhibited in various exhibitions in North America. Pro-Imaging have excercised an exception to the normal two year usage rule for this contest in line with the exception guidelines in the Bill of Rights condition 2. The majority of the entrants to this competition are not professional photographers but rather scientists who are capturing images for the purposes of their research. In this community, non-commercial open access image sharing (with proper credit) is considered a normal practice and an important part of scientific collaboration. The participants in this competition expect their imagery will be shared and welcome the added publicity and the benefits such publicity brings to their careers. A critical factor in scientific research is to be published in the scientific journals that recognize the winners of the Small World competition. This recognition can be very important to a scientist's career development since it brings greater awareness to his/her research.
Student Challenge 2008 ends 3 March 2008 Newsflash! 10 April 2008 Competition Rules Amended! Pro-Imaging and One NorthEast have had positive and constructive discussions about the rules of this competition. Although this competition is now closed for entries, One NorthEast have retrospectively changed the rules that were detailed in the original Rights Off List report. In brief the following changes have been made by One NorthEast - One NorthEast no longer seek to claim copyright, nor waiving of moral rights. One NorthEast no longer claim unsuccessful students submissions other than a license permission to display submissions on the competition website. All images will be credited. For the winning image the student will be invited to license their submission to One NorthEast for use in the Regional Image Campaign, such license appropriately time limited. and with a condition that the student will not use the submission in a way that could harm the reputation of the region.
Pro-Imaging welcome these changes that One NorthEast have made and we sincerely thank One NorthEast for their response to our concerns. These changes remove all criticisms that we made of the original competitions rules detailed in our original Rights Off List report.
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