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Concorde Pacific; Reflections + Projections ends 31 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.

"8. Use of Photographs and Name

All Photographs submitted become the sole property of the Sponsor and will not be returned to the Participant for any reason. In this regard, the Participant acknowledges and agrees that:

a. the Sponsor may, as sole owner of the Photograph once submitted and in its sole discretion, exhibit, produce, reproduce, publish and/or distribute any Photograph with or without modifications made by the Sponsor, in any medium (including without limitation marketing material) and at any time, for any purpose (including without limitation commercial or charity fund raising purposes), all without compensation or notice to the Participant;

b. the Sponsor may, in its sole discretion, use the Participant’s name through any medium in connection with such exhibition, production, reproduction, publishing and/or distribution; and

c. the Participant may not exhibit, reproduce or distribute any Photographs that have been submitted to the Sponsor."

The following text is extracted from the entry form -

"I understand that by entering the Concord Pacific Group Photo Competition I transfer all rights in and to the photograph, the narrative, the title of the photograph and all other material submitted, including all copyrights (collectively, the "Photograph"), to the Concord Pacific Group."

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 

• Fail, All photographers entering the contest retain their copyright
• Pass, 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

• Fail, The organisers free usage is time limited as per The Bill of Rights
  
• Fail, 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
  
• Fail, 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
• 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 -

If you submit an image to this contest you will lose all rights to it and will not be able to license it again. It is no longer your image.

We are unable to recommend this competition. 

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Organisations - Concorde Pacific, Provence Marinaside

Judges - Names and brief bio details of judges are not provided.

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