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Royal National Institute for Deaf People; Without Sound Contest ends 15th August 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.

"3. RNID reserves the right to publish all or parts of entries other than the winning entry, and publication of their photo(s) does not necessarily mean that the entrant has won a prize. Entrants will retain copyright and moral rights in their submitted entries; however, by entering this competition, all entrants give RNID a non-exclusive licence to edit, publish and use all or segments of each entry in any and all media (including print and online) for publicity and news purposes solely and exclusively relating to the competition. There will be no commercial usage of the images with the exception of their publication in a book.  The usage licence will expire two years from the closing date."

Results of Testing the Rules

Listed below are the results of the tests we carried out on this competition's rules. The tests are all based on the standards set out in The Bill of Rights . By adopting these standards competition organisers can create competition rules that meet the needs of organisers and are fair and respectful to the rights of entrants. For each test a result is given which can be Pass of Fail. Competitions that pass all these tests go on The Rights On List, those that don't go on The Rights Off List.

If the rules are vague and we cannot determine whether the rules pass a particular test or not the result is shown as Unclear.  Where a test is not necessary the result is shown as N/A.

Click on any result below for more information about that specific test.

1 Copyright & Moral Rights 

• Pass, All photographers entering the contest retain their copyright
• Pass, The contest does not require any entrants to waive moral rights
• Pass, A credit is always given to the photographer when the image is published
  
• Pass, All the documents that must be completed by each entrant to participate in or win a contest are shown
  

2 Free Usage Durations Claimed

• Pass, The organisers free usage is time limited as per The Bill of Rights
  
• Pass, The sponsors free usage is time limited as per The Bill of Rights
• Pass, Book usage is time limited as per The Bill of Rights
  
• Pass, free usage only promotes the contest or is used for a book 

3 Commercial Usage Rights Claimed

• N/A, Commercial use is rights managed & time limited as per The Bill of Rights
• Pass, Entrants are not required to sign commercial usage licenses

4 Declarations

• Pass, The organisations that acquire rights are all named
• Pass, This (or last) years Judges are named along with brief bio details

5 Contest End Date

• Pass, The contest end date is within 16 months of the contest being announced

Conclusions

This contest meets every requirement of the The Bill of Rights.

This contest is recommended.

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Organisations; The Royal National Institute for Deaf People.

Judges; Stuart Freedman

Contact; Contact Page

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