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Competition Diary

Listed below are the titles of the competitions added to the competition campaign lists since the previous diary update along with news of any other events that have occured in the campaign since the last diary was published.

Rights Off List

25 October 2008

Nivea; XOXO Photo Contest added.

InterContinental Hotels; Connections Photo Contest added.

Prisacom; Otoño Con Encanto added.

NSW Fishing & Aquaculture Freshwater Fishing Photo Contest added.

Oregon Wild; Outdoor Photo Contest added.

Photobox; Spirit of Adventure added.

Triodos Bank; Social Enterprise Photo Competition added.

Blackpool Council; Love Blackpool Photo Competition added.

National Geographic; International Photography Contest added.

North Dakota Agriculture Photo Contest added.

International Wild Bird Photographer Awards added

Professional Photographer of the Year '08 added

PQ Blackwell; Fresh Milk Competition added

Vancouver Olympic; Countdown Photo Appeal added

Smithsonian Magazine 6th Annual Photo Contest added

National Recreation Trails; Annual Photo Contest added

The Independent; Adventure Travel Show; Photo Appeal added

27 October 2008

Australian Human Rights Commission; HREOC Contest added

14 November 2008

IPC Trusted Reviews; Digital Photography Competition added

 

Rights On List

5 November 2008

Bovril; Favourite Places Photo Competition added.

12 November 2008

Shootexperience - All Contests added

Bill of Rights

No changes 

Other Diary Entries

Other competition diary entries can be read here.

News


 

Support the Bill of Rights for Photography Competitions I

Would you like to help in this campaign? If you would like to help here is a very easy way to do it through your website, blog, or forums that you belong to. Please provide links to the following three pages on the Pro-Imaging website -

These links are very important, the more of you that can do this the higher our campaign pages will appear in search engine rankings when people are looking for competitions to enter.

 

Support the Bill of Rights for Photography Competitions II

Here's another simple way to help. Once a week, choose a competition on the Rights Off List, preferably one that's still running, any one that catches your eye, and send an email to the contacts listed in the competition report. Where we have given judges contact details write to them too.

Tell them what you think about the contest rules, or just keep it simple and tell them you've found their competition on the Pro-Imaging Rights Off List and ask them to change the rules to comply with the Bill of Rights.

We know that thousands of visitors have viewed our reports, and if each of you just send one email every week it will help our campaign enormously.

Why not write to competiutions on the Rights On List and congratulate them for supporting the rights of photographers, it's only fair to give praise too.

 

Support the Bill of Rights for Photography Competitions III
 

Many countries have a freedom of information act that require publicly funded bodies to comply with requests for information from members of the public. Pro-Imaging believe this act should be used by the public to obtain information from cities, local governments, government departments, government agencies about the photo competitions they run.

You can do this and request the following information from publicly funded bodies -

  • How many photo contests have been run in the previous three years?
  • What image usage rights did each entrant grant on submitting an entry?
  • Did entrants have to waive moral rights?
  • Did entrants have to assign copyright to another organisation?
  • What organisations gained the rights to use the submitted images, and what usage rights did each organisation get?
  • How many images were submitted to each contest?
  • What was the total cost of supplying the prizes?
  • What proportion of the cost is underwritten by the sponsors?
  • Are images submitted to the contests sub-licensed commercially to other organisations?
  • What has been the total income from sub-licensing?

Of course feel free to add your own questions that may be pertinant to a particular contest. We strongly urge everyone who is dismayed at the extent of rights grabbing occuring in the world to use the Freedom of Information Act in their country to get precise detail about the extent of it in publicly funded organisations. Pro-Imaging will be happy to publish such information.

 

RSS Feed

We take the opportunity at this point each week to mention that if you want to keep up to date with the competition campaign, click on the orange RSS Feed icon in your browser address bar. You will recieve competition diary updates direct to your RSS feed. Regular visitors know this already, but new visitors arrive all the time!

 

Contacting Us

We welcome notices telling us about contests that are either good or bad. You can use our Competitions Campaign Contact Form to tell us what you've found. We are especially keen to hear about good contests that you think pass our Bill of Rights, at the moment they are more difficult to find but as the campaign continues for the long term, we expect that to get easier.

We try and reply to all the notices we receive, but this may not always be possible. We thank you here in advance for any help you offer. We never reveal the names of those who notify us of competitions.

 

Other Diary Entries

Other competition diary entries can be read here.

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