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Rovingeye; Expose Your World 2008 ends 29 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.

"6. The Finalists and Winners

6.1 An exhibition of the work of the prize winners and finalists will be held on the “Expose Your World” website.

6.2 All winners and finalists are required to enter into a non-exclusive Licence Agreement with RovingEye, for a period of two years, for the specific work entered in the competition. All entrants will retain copyright and will be notified should their work be selected.

A copy of the standard Licence Agreement can be obtained from RovingEye on request or may be downloaded at http://www.exposeyourworld.com/pages/legal.cfm.

6.3 Finalists may be required to provide RovingEye with relevant tax information and to prepare relevant tax documentation and complete a Licence Agreement prior to receiving the prize.

6.9 A condition of the holiday prizes for the Overall Winner of the Photo Essay, Overall Winner of the Single Shot and Overall Winner of the Young Australian Photographer of the Year, is that all holiday experiences are required to be photographed for RovingEye, and will be made available at no charge for once-only future editorial publication within Australian Traveller magazine, Outer Edge Magazine and A&K Magazine. All photographs will be credited to the photographer. The photographer will receive a 50% royalty payment on any future sales.

6.10 The Tarraleah Lodge and Abercrombie & Kent will have access to 12-18 images taken by the winner during the stay as a part of the prize, for future editorial use within their in-house editorial publication. All marketing and advertising use by Tarraleah Lodge or Abercrombie & Kent will attract a reproduction fee and photographers will receive 50% royalty. All photographs will be credited to the photographer.

6.11 Copyright on these images are retained by the photographer, and sub-licenced to RovingEye for a minimum of two years, with a 50% royalty on all sales. For full details of the sub-licencing conditions, please request a copy of the Licence Agreement from RovingEye.

6.12 A selection of finalists’ stories and photographs may be featured in Australian Traveller magazine, Outer Edge magazine and A&K magazine, once only, at no charge, as a part of the overall competition promotion. All content will be credited.

7. Rights of Entrant

Entrants retain all copyrights and other equivalent rights to entered photographs, stories and video/multimedia content. The winners and finalists, may be required to sub-licence their entry(ies) to RovingEye (see clause 6.2).

8. Rights of the Organiser

8.1 RovingEye (known as the Organiser) reserves the permanent, non-exclusive right to publish, reproduce, display, distribute, and show on screen any winning entries on websites, in exhibitions, tradeshows, or any other media which is under their management for the purpose of promoting the competition.

8.2 RovingEye will use best efforts to ensure that authors of all works used for the purpose in 8.1, is accredited accordingly.".

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 -Rovingeye, Nikon, Crumpler, Manfrotto, Pixel Perfect, AsukaBOOK, SanDisk, Abercrombie & Kent, ASUS, Outer Edge, The Lodge -Tarraleah, Rovingeye Publishing Group, Vibe Hotels

Judges -

• Bob Barker, Picture Editor & Photographer, Rovingeye
  
• Greg Barton, Editor, Australian Traveller Magazine
  
• Geoff Brown, Director of Photography
  
• Alan Davies, Curator of Photographs, NSW State Library
  
• Rodney Dekker, Documentary & Travel Photographer,
  
• George Fetting, Freelance Photographer
  
• Peter George, Reporter, director & producer
  
• Stewart Hawkins, Editor, Weekend Life & Leisure
  
• Patrick Kinsella, Editor, Outer Edge Magazine,
  
• Mark Munro, Photographer & Federal Vice President ACMP
  
• Bruce Permezel, Cinematographer, director and editor
• Scott Podmore, Editor, Sunday Herald Sun
  
• Michael James Rowland, Australian film director & writer
  
• Mike Smith, Travel editor
  

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© 2008 Pro-Imaging; Last updated on 7 August 2008

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