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Guardian Student Media Award 2008 ends 4 July 2008 The Rules of this ContestListed below are extracts from the rules of this competition. These extracts detail the rights being claimed from entrants. "25. In consideration of GNM agreeing to consider their entry, each entrant: (a) grants GNM a royalty-free licence to copy, edit, display, publish, broadcast and make available their entry in any format in connection with the Awards or promotion of the Awards, the winners and/or runners-up; (b) agrees that GNM may publish their name in connection with GNM's use of the entry; (c) warrants that the work submitted with their entry is their own or the relevant team's original work, that it is not defamatory and that it shall not infringe any third-party rights including, without limitation, privacy; and (d) agrees that GNM may grant to its partners and/or associated companies a sub-licence of the rights licensed to GNM under these terms and conditions on such terms as GNM shall agree in its sole discretion."
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
- Fail, 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
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
- Fail, 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 fails The Bill of Rights because - - There is no statement limiting the duration of free usage as per The Bill of Rights
- It is not clear from the rules that the images are solely and exclusively used to promote the contest
- The rules do not state that the photos will always be credited
- The organisations that get rights to use the photos are not all listed
By submitting 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. Here are some news items about the Guardian; Guardian backs down on competition 'Rights Grab' after NUJ intervene. Guardian left red faced over "Inadvertant" competition rights grab. Guardian caught running second rights grabbing competition. 'Ethical' & 'honest' Guardian lied about NUJ endorsement for controversial contract.
This contest is not recommended. ### Organisations - Guardian News & Media, Sky News, NME, Judges - There are differents sets of judges for each category Lionel Barber, editor, Financial Times
Janine Gibson, G3 editor, and editor in chief, Media Guardian
Andrew Neil, chief executive, Press Holdings Media, and broadcaster,
BBC TV and radio
Alan Rusbridger, editor, the Guardian Jane Bruton, editor, Grazia
Ian Katz, executive editor, the Guardian
Jeremy Langmead, editor, Esquire
Caspar Llewellyn Smith, editor, Observer Music Monthly Duncan Campbell, senior correspondent, the Guardian
Jane Martinson, editor, MediaGuardian
Alex Thomson, presenter, Channel 4 News
Natasha Kaplinsky , presenter, Five News Rachel Cooke, feature writer, The Observer
Giles Coren, restaurant critic, The Times
Simon Hattenstone, feature writer, the Guardian
Katharine Viner, features editor, the Guardian Kate Edwards picture editor, Weekend magazine, the Guardian
Eamonn McCabe, photographer, the Guardian
Gideon Mendel, photographer Giles Brenard, creative director, Guardian Creative
Jeremy Leslie, executive creative director, John Brown Group
Mark Porter, creative editor, the Guardian Emily Bell, director of digital content, Guardian News and Media
Brent Hoberman, co-founder, lastminute.com and mydeco
Paul Macinnes, entertainment editor, guardian.co.uk Alex Needham, culture editor, guardian.co.uk
Ekow Eshun, artistic director, Institute of Contemporary Arts
Caitlin Moran, critic and columnist, The Times
Conor McNicholas, editor, NME Rob Kirk, editorial development manager, Sky News
Dermot Murnaghan, presenter, Sky News Today
Matt Wells, head of audio, guardian.co.uk
Kirsty Young , presenter, BBC Ben Clissitt , sports editor, the Guardian
Martin Samuel , sports writer and columnist, The Times
Jeff Stelling , presenter, Soccer Saturday, Sky Sports Kira Cochrane, women's editor, the Guardian
Joseph Harker , assistant comment editor, the Guardian
Trevor Phillips , chair, Equality and Human Rights Commission
Ben Summerskill , chief executive, Stonewall Isabel Choat , travel editor, the Guardian
Sarah Miller , editor, Conde Nast Traveller Jonathan Freedland, head of policy, the Guardian
Hugh Muir, senior reporter, the Guardian
Lucy Siegle, environmental columnist, Observer Magazine
Zoe Williams, columnist, the Guardian
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Trevor Philips is a judge listed above and the chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission. 
© 2008 Pro-Imaging; Last updated on 10 June 2008
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