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Purdie Gallery; Annual Landscape Photography Competition ends 30 August 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.

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- Copyright remains with entrants.

- Published/displayed images will always be credited to the photographer

- The images will be only ever be used by the Purdie Gallery to solely and exclusively promote the competition and such usage will not exceed 2 years. This means we might want to use a couple of the winners on a flyer advertising the exhibition, or as publicity for next year's competiton. There will be no commercial usage of the images, which means we won't be selling any of them.

- If anyone expresses an interest in buying any of the winning canvases we will contact with the photographer."

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, 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

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

3 Commercial Usage Rights Claimed

• Pass, Commercial use 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 meets every requirement of the The Bill of Rights.

This contest is recommended.

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Organisations - Purdie Gallery

Judges - David and Andrea Purdie plus gallery staff.

Contact - Send enquiries about this contest to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

© 2008 Pro-Imaging; Last updated on 18 July 2008

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