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Greenbee Travel Photography Competition ends 25 April 2009 The Rules of this Contest Listed below are extracts from the rules of this competition. These extracts detail the rights being claimed from entrants. "Entrants must not be employees of the John Lewis Partnership, John Brown Publishing Ltd, the competition sponsors or anyone professionally associated with this competition." "Entrants will retain copyright in their submitted entries. However, by entering, all entrants grant Greenbee a worldwide royalty-free perpetual licence to publish and use each entry in any and all media (including print and online) for publicity and news purposes, and all entrants waive their moral rights in the use of such images for the purposes of such licences granted. For the avoidance of doubt Greenbee will only use photo entries for internal and/or for publicity and news purposes in relation to the competition." 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
- Fail, The contest does not require any entrants to waive moral rights
- Fail, Rules state 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
3 Commercial Usage Rights Claimed - Fail, A statement clarifying the commercial usage position is present as per The Bill of Rights
- 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
- Fail, 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 The Bill of Rights because - - The rules require entrants to waive moral rights
- There is no statement limiting the duration of free usage as per The Bill of Rights
- There is no statement making clear whether there is commercial usage or not.
- The rules do not state that the photos will always be credited
- The organisations that get rights to use the photos are not all listed
- The judges are not listed
If you submit an image to this contest, although you can continue to license your image non-exclusively, you will lose forever the right to exclusively license your image. However, Greenbee.com (John Lewis Partnership) , and anyone else they authorise, have gained the right to use all submitted images for ever in any medium they choose. Note in particular entrants are required to waive their moral rights, this is unacceptable. This contest is not recommended. ### Organisations - Greenbee.com, John Lewis Partnership, John Brown Publishing Ltd, Source Magazine owned by Greenbee, Greenbee Travel Note that the John Lewis Partnership own Waitrose, John Lewis, and Greenbee. The rules are not absolutely clear about which and how many of these companies get rights to the images. Nor is it clear what John Brown Publishing's role in this contest is. The rules mention competition sponsors but nowhere are these sponsors clearly listed. Judges - Details of judges are not supplied. Contact - Send enquiries about this contest to
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