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UK Crown Estate; What's Great about Britain? ends 31 December 2008 

The Rules of this Contest

Before quoting the competition rules it may be of interest to explain what the United Kingdom Crown Estate is. Here is an extract from the Crown Estate website which explain their role within the United Kingdom.

"The Crown Estate may be traced back to the reign of King Edward the Confessor and, until the accession of King George III, the Sovereign received its rents, profits and expenses. However since 1760, the annual surplus, after deducting management costs, has been surrendered by the Sovereign to Parliament to help meet the costs of civil government. In return, the Sovereign receives the civil list and the Government meets other official expenditure incurred in support of the Sovereign."

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

"1. Copyright

In contributing to RegentStreetOnline.com you agree to grant The Crown Estate (the owner and operator of the website) an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use or display your attached photo in connection with and in relation to the Regent Street Festival 2008 ("the Festival") and any related photograph competition until the end of 2009 ("the Competition") including, but not limited to, publicising and promoting the Festival and Competition, and the printed production of your photographs for display purposes and the transmission of the material by The Crown Estate ("the Licence").

It's important to note that YOU still own the copyright to everything you contribute to RegentStreetOnline.com. If your photo is used for promotional purposes, you will be credited for the use of your image by The Crown Estate on this website (regentstreetonline.com)

The Crown Estate cannot guarantee that all photos will be used and we reserve the right to edit the photo's title and caption if it is viewed as unsuitable. All images will be checked by a moderator; upon upload an email will be sent to verify that you are the owner of the email address linked to the image used for submission. At this stage, if you want to remove your photo, please respond to the email.

The Crown Estate may need to contact you for administrative or verification purposes in relation to your contribution.

You have the right to request the removal of your photo at any stage. Please email us in order to do so.

If you have any further questions please This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ."

"4. Judging

The competition will be judged Annie Walker, Director of the Regent Street Association and David Shaw, Head of Regent Street Strategy and Development."

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

• 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, A statement clarifying the commercial usage position is present as per The Bill of Rights
• N/A, 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 meets every requirement of the The Bill of Rights.

This contest is recommended.

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Organisations - The Crown Estate, Jessops, Regent Street Association

Judges -

Annie Walker, Director of the Regent Street Association

David Shaw, Head of Regent Street Strategy and Development

Contact - Send enquiries about this contest to -

Liz at Regent Street Association - This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

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