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Creative Review The Photography Annual 2008 ends 4 Jul 2008 

The Rules of this Contest

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

"Credits and Copyright
All credits must be detailed when entering online. All information provided on the entry form will be used to credit published work, however this may need to be edited or condensed for space. Creative Review accepts no responsibility for incorrect information provided on entry forms. Creative Review assumes that all entries are original and are the works and property of the entrant. As a condition of entry, the entrant grants Creative Review permission to reproduce the works in print and in digital format and attests that they have the right to grant this permission. Creative Review will not be held liable for any action or claim arising out of the reproduction of entered works in whatever format."

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
• Pass, 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

• Fail, The organisers free usage is time limited as per The Bill of Rights
  
• N/A, The sponsors free usage is time limited as per The Bill of Rights
• Unclear, Book usage is time limited as per The Bill of Rights
  
• Unclear, free usage only promotes the contest or is used for a book 

3 Commercial Usage Rights Claimed

• Fail, A statement clarifying the commercial usage position is present as per The Bill of Rights
• Unclear, 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
• Pass, 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 -

If you submit an image to this contest, although you can continue to license your image non-exclusively, you may lose forever the right to exclusively license your image. There is no statement in the rules setting any time limit on usage so Creative Review have the right to use the images for ever.

You should clarify with Creative Review what their position is on duration of usage and the purposes of their usage.

We are unable to recomend this contest.. 

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Organisations -  Centaur Media plc, Saddington & Baynes, theprintspace

Judges -

Advertising/Conceptual: Grant Parker, Head of Art at DDB London

Editorial/Design: Lee Swillingham, founding Partner of design studio Suburbia and creative director of Pop Magazine.

Personal/non-published: Amanda Renshaw, Editorial Director, Phaidon Press

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© 2008 Pro-Imaging; Last updated on 24 June 2008

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