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Air Miles; Times Shared with Friends - Monthly

The Rules of this Contest

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

"Entries may be published on the AIRMILES website and entrants accept that any photograph entered may be used by the promoter at any time or in any media in the future on a royalty free basis".

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 contest fails primarily because it has no time limit on usage of the entries, Airmiles can use the images forever. Nor do the rules have any statement restricting usage to promoting the contest only, they are able to use the images as they wish. which can include commercial usage.

Although you will still be able license images you enter to this contest you have lost forever the ability to effect an exclusive license deal.

The judges are not named and there is an element of public voting in this contest.

This contest is not recommended. 

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Organisations - Airmiles

Judges - All entries will be judged by an independent panel of judges. Who are they we might ask? Are they experienced? Why are they not being named on the website?

Contact - Send enquiries and views about this contest to here.

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

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