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Pilsner Urquel International Photography Award 2008 ends 15 June 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.

"USE OF IMAGES

Copyright and all other rights remain that of the photographer. Any photograph used by IPA shall carry the photographer's credit line. Use may include publication in any IPA media sponsor publication. All entrants understand that any image submitted to the competition may be used by IPA and the SABMiller group for marketing and promotional purposes including in any media such as exhibitions, print and digital media directly related to the IPA competition."

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

• Fail, The organisers free usage is time limited as per The Bill of Rights
  
• Fail, The sponsors free usage is time limited as per The Bill of Rights
• Fail, 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

• Unclear, Commercial usage 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
• Fail, 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 fails The Bill of Rights because -

If you submit an image to this contest, although you can continue to license your image non-exclusively, you will lose forever the right to exclusively license your image. 

This contest has pretty good rules overall and is very prestigious. It could have been placed on The Rights On List if only it had adopted the time limits for usage duration set out in conditions 2 and 3 of The Bill of Rights. We hope that the organisers may make this small change to their rules in future.

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Organisations - International Photography Awards, Pilsner Urquell, atedge, Orbitz, Ilford, Kingston, Hasselblad, Photoflex.com, splashlight, Canon, The Black Book, Fresh Lists, Lensbabies, Wacom, Workbook, Hewlit Packard, Les Rencontres D'Arles, Advertising Photographers of Amercica (APA), American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), Society of Motion Picture Still Photographer (SMPSP), National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP), Photoworkshop.com, Canadian Association For Photographic Art, DivePhotoGuide.com, Women in Photography International, Planetpoint, Society for Photographic Education (spe), Photo Art Association of Singapore, Argentine Society of Cinema Photographers, Association of Independent Photographers - France, Los Angelos Photo - Professional Photo Directory, L.A.International, Apogee Photo, Focus Escola de Fotografia (Brazil), emma, Popular Photography, pdn, The Times Journal of Photography, The Body, Camera Arts, Professional Photographer, shutterbug, PopPhoto, designtaxi, anet.net, fontographics, JOBY, American Photo, 

Judges and Jurors

Susan Aurinko - Owner/Director | Flatfile Galleries | ChicagoSusan Baraz -

        Co-Chair - Lucie Awards | Chair - Focus on Aids

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Sue Brisk , Editor, Magnum Photos | New York

Ron Ceballos - BUREAU Los Angeles | California

James Colton - Photograph Editor | Sports Illustrated Magazine | New York

Katie Constans - Creative Director | Trace Magazine | New York,

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Rhoni Epstein - Photography Consultant | PhotoTherapy | California

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Jeanine Fijol - Photo Editor | Photo District News | New York

Scott Mc Kiernan - Publisher | Doubletruck Magazine | California

Frank Lohstoeter - Editor | Leica Magazine | Germany

Robin Morgan - Editor in Chief | Sunday Times Magazine - London

        | United Kingdom

Vladimir Neskoromny - Editor in Chief | Foto and Video Magazine | Russia,

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Bridie Picot - Mother/Art Buyer | Mother Advertising

        | London,

Alan Rapp - Senior Editor | Chronicle Books | San Francisco,

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Miriam Romais - Exec Director and Editor, En Foco, Inc and Nueva Luz

        photographic journal | N.Y.

Miss Rosen - Powerhouse Books | New York

Aidan J. Sullivan - Vice President Getty Images |Photo Assignments

        | Orchard North America

Damon Webster - Publisher/Founder | Photoinduced.com

Brock Wylan - Editor in Chief | Picture Magazine | New York

Susan Zadeh - Artistic Director | Founder of Eyemazing Publication

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Lawrence Azerrad - Lawrence Azerrad Design | Los Angeles, CA

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Susan Baraz - Photo Consultant | Los Angeles, CA

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Jigisha Bouverat - Senior Art Buyer | TBWA Chiat Day | Los Angeles, CA

Claudio Castellacci - Art Director | Rizzoli Publications | Italy

Gail Fisher - Senior Photo Editor | Los Angeles Times | Los Angeles, CA

Jeff Griffith - Creative Director | New York, NY

Paul Kopeikin - Kopeikin Fine Art Gallery | Los Angeles, CA

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Paul Soady - Instructor | Art Center College of Design | Pasadena, CA

Kristine Wilson - Art Buyer/Manager | Ogilvy and Mather | Los Angeles, CA

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© 2008 Pro-Imaging; Last updated 11 June 2008

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