How to use the Old Rights Off List

This Old Rights Off List  was created during the first year of the Bill of Rights Campaign. It listed lall those competitions that have failed to comply with all the standards set out in the Bill of Rights. For each such contest that was investigated a detailed contest report was created and submitted to the organiser. Click on any competition in the Old Rights Off List to see the report on that specific contest.

We are no longer doing detailed contst reports but we have retainedall the reports we did because they are an insight into the techniques and terms used by photographic contest organiser to exploit the naive and grab their rights.

The competitions are listed by default in descending order of their closing date for entries so the oldest  closing date contests are towards the end of the list, ongoing contests, that is those with no end date becuase they run continuously, appear at the beginning. The closing date for each contest is shown in the contest title in the format yyyy mm dd. Contests which recur are listed as Weekly, Monthly, or Ongoing. If a contest is annual there will be separate entries in the list for each year.

Searching & sequencing the Lists

Filter; Use this to find a particular competition when you know its title, or part of its title. For example you could enter 'landscape', press enter and all contests with that phrase in the title will be listed.

Order; This is a drop down menu that lets you choose a sequence for the list. By default this is set at 'Title Desc', that is the contests are listed in descending order of their title which places contests with the oldest closing date at the end of the list. The drop down menu provides four other sequences that you are free to use, these are -

• Title Asc: this reverses the default sequence and the oldest closing date contests will appear at the top of the list.
• Ordering: this lists the contest in the order they were added to the list, so those added recently will appear at the top.
• Hits asc: This lists the contests such that those with the highest hit rate appear at the top of the list.
• Hits desc: This list the contests such that those with the lowest hit rate appear at the top of the list. Very low hit rate contests may be low because they have just been added to the list.
  

Display; This lets you control how many competitions are listed per page. By default this is set at 30, but the drop down menu also offers you 5, 10, 15, 20, and 25 to better suit your screen size.

Search; The 'Search Pro-Imaging' box will search the entire Pro-Imaging website, not just pages connected to the Bill of Rights for Artists campaign. Note the search box is limited to 20 characters, sorry!  You can enter a phrase, words, or parts of a words.