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Intrepid Photography Competition - ongoing

The Rules of this Contest

Listed below are extracts from the rules of this competition. These extracts detail the rights being claimed from entrants.

"While we endeavor to publish as many photo competition entries as possible in our brochures, we cannot guarantee that all will make the pages.

While the photographer retains the copyright of all images submitted as competition entries, Intrepid Travel and our Intrepid Photography Competition partners reserve the right to unlimited use of the photos for company brochures, promotion and advertising."

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

• 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
• N/A, Book usage is time limited as per The Bill of Rights
  
• Fail, free usage only promotes the contest or is used for a book 

3 Commercial Usage Rights Claimed

• Fail, 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 competition fails the Bill of Rights primarily because Intrepid Travel & it's partners can use the submitted images for ever in any way they wish. One of the partners is a stock agency and through this competition their picture library is being expanded at little cost gaining the use of images free of virtually all restraint. This is really quite unacceptable.

There is no statement indicating that you will always recieve a credit for image use, and they have failed to offer a non-exclusive rights managed license to remunerate you for commercial use.

You will still be able to license your images entered to this contest, but only non-exclusively, you will lose for ever the ability to offer an exclusive license for images submitted to this contest. 

This contest is not recommended.

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Organisations - Intrepid Travel, Kathmandu, Lonely Planet, Lonely Planet Images

Note that Lonely Planet Images is a stock library and agency. According to the rule quoted above "Intrepid Photography Competition partners reserve the right to unlimited use of the photos".

Judges - We carefully looked into every page of the website but despite our efforts we found no mention of judges.

© 2008 Pro-Imaging; Last updated on 9 June 2008

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