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L'Oréal *, #France (1)

**L'Oréal *, #France**

Photo competitions and image appeals are notified to us by our contributors from around the world. Listed below are some photo competitions or image appeals promoted by the above organisation which have not met the standards set out in the Bill of Rights.

If the terms and conditions of a contest or appeal fail to meet the standards set out in the Bill of Rights the organisation is added to the Rights Off List and a report such as this produced. We have listed in this report the terms and conditions which failed the Bill of Rights to help the organiser carry out a review. The extracted terms and conditions are shown below in italics.

For advice on why failing to meet the standards set out in the Bill of Rights is a serious issue please read this article.

If at some future date a competition organiser decides to join the Bill of Rights Supporters Group, thus ensuring that all their contests will comply with the Bill of Rights, Rights Off reports for that organisation will be unpublished.

The purpose of the Bill of Rights Campaign is to provide education to the public about the value of rights and to encourage photography competition organisers to adopt the ethical practices set out in the Bill of Rights.

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L'Oréal Colour Trophy New Zealand 2008

Closing Date Not Published

RULES

Firstly we would like to thank the New Zealand Advertising & Illustrative Photographers Association (AIPA) for sending the details of this contest to us.

This is a very high profile competition for hair salons where, as part of the entry terms, the hair dresser signs over "all future copyright" in any images they submit. The images are often taken by photographers who have never even seen the entry form, and therefore have no chance to object. And obviously the hair dressers have little or no comprehension of photographers rights - so they sign the form without thinking.

At the time of writing this report (10th June 2008) the contest website does not display the rules of this competition. However we have listed below extracts from the rules of this competition sent to us by AIPA and these extracts detail the rights being claimed from entrants.

Rule 10 states that “All entrants agree that the future copyright of any supplied imagery belongs to L’Oreal Professional and is not permitted to be submitted to other competitions”

Rule 16 states that “All entry photographs and digital images become the property of L’Oreal Professional and will not be returned to entrants.”

Rule 16 continues “Photography from the L'Oreal Professional Colour Trophy photo shoot (whether submitted or not) cannot be published AT ANY TIME BEFORE OR AFTER THE AWARDS ARE JUDGED, in any form (electronically, print or otherwise) without express written permission of L'Oreal Professional.”

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CONTACT

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You can help the Bill of Rights campaign by complaining to the organiser urging them to change their terms and conditions. If time is at a premium for you we have prepared a complaint email which you can copy and send to the organiser.

The Bill of Rights campaign depends on your active support, your help will make a difference.

Updated on 10 June 2008

The Bill of Rights Standards for Photography Competitions

Competitions which meet all the standards set out in the Bill of Rights do not do any of the following -

claim copyright
seek waiving of moral rights
fail to give a credit for all free usage.
add, alter, or remove metadata from digital images
seek usage rights other than for solely and exclusively promoting the contest. Note that a book, posters, cards, or a calendar are seen as legitimate ways of promoting the contest and defraying costs.
seek free usage rights in excess of 5 years
use the images commercially without the photographers agreement, and such commercial usage is to be rights managed and limited to 5 years.
make it a condition of winning that an entrant must sign a commercial usage agreement.
fail to publish all documents on the competition website that an entrant may have to sign
fail to name the judges for this or last year's competition
fail to explicitly state all the organisations who will acquire rights to the images
set a closing date more than 18 months after the contest launch date
fail to make clear statements of rights claimed and how images are used.

We have written an Organisers Guide to the Bill of Rights to help organisers draft terms and conditions that respect the rights of entrants and at the same time provide legal protection for the organiser.

The above text may be reproduced providing a link is given to the Bill of Rights For Photography Competitions.

Any text reproduced above in italics has been extracted from a competition website for the purposes of review.

Organisations who would like to be promoted as a Bill of Rights Supporter and have their competitions promoted on the Rights On List can use this contact form. One of the campaign team will get in touch with you.