Pro-Imaging

Bill of Rights Condition 2

Image Usage Limits for Books

Some competitions will create a book of the photographs entered to a competition, usually the winning ones. Such a book promotes the photographs, the photographers, the contest, and is a legitimate product of the competition benefiting both the organisers and the photographers. 

It should be noted at this point The Bill of Rights primary aim is not to inhibit the creation of profit from a contest as such, but to prevent the loss of photographers rights and the creation of commercial image libraries from contests. There is no problem with the publishing of a book of the photographs submitted to a competition as long as the restrictions on image usage set out in the Bill of Rights for books are adhered to.

The maximum usage rights that  can be claimed in contest rules with respect to the publication of books containing the contest images are as follows -

Competition Book; This book will only contain the images submitted to a particular competition. There is no limit on how long this book can continue to be published.

Compilation Books; Typically this would be a book containing the best of 'XYZ' competition. Compilations may contain the best of images submitted to any of the contests of a specific competition in the last five years.

Competitions failing this rule cannot be recommended.

NB. Where a competition does not produce a book the test result for this Bill of Rights condition on Rights On and Rights Off reports will be shown as N/A (not applicable).