| Photo Competitions Diary 11 September 2008 |
Photo Competitions Diary 11 September 2008Listed below are the titles of the competitions added to the competition campaign lists since the previous diary update along with news of any other events that have occured in the campaign since the last diary was published. 24 August
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NewsUK Crown Estate Contest ApprovedDiscussions between The United Kingdom Crown Estate and Pro-Imaging about the rules of the What's Great About Britain Contest resulted in a contest fully meeting all the provisions of the Bill of Rights. The full report created by Pro-Imaging for this contest and submitted to The Crown Estate can be read here and thepress release announcing this agreement can be read here.
British Journal of Photography is Rights On! Two rights on contests in one diary is cause for celebration! We didn't know about this one until, fortuitously, BJP mentioned their contest to us. A quick check at the rules and we were sure another Rights On contest had been found. We contacted BJP and a few hours later the contest was added to the Rights On list, this is the fastest promotion of any contest.
Freedom of the City of GuelphOnce again another Canadian city is involved in running a competition to harvest images of the city to promote itself instead of supporting local photographers and commissioning such work. Guelph agreed to change some of the rules, and reduced their usage claim from perpetual to 20 years but were unwilling to comply with the Bill of Rights. Our report which can be read here gives details of the contest and the points it failed on. In the report we advise our Canadian readers that they write to the City of Guelph, citing the Canadian Freedom of Information Act, requesting information about this contest and previous photo contests run by the city. We have listed some of the questions they can ask and to add any other queries they think relevant. Pro-Imaging will publish such information when it becomes available.
Oceans of Wonder; Parade's RaidParade Magazine is is a US magazine distributed by 400 Sunday Newspapers and has a readership of 71 million. Paraded have launched a raid on their readership's photos, Parade call it a contest of course, so that they can use the photos freely in anyway they choose without payment or crediting the entrant. The public at large are unaware they are being duped out of valuable rights by devices such as this and launched by publishers who vastly increase their profits by getting free photos. Read the full detail of this dreadful rights grab here and use our contact details to write to them and tell them what you think. If you would like to speak to someone at Parade we suggest you phone Walter Anderson, the Chairman, on (212) 450-7168.
Great Picture & Small Print - Don't Lose Rights In CompetitionsOwn-it and Pro-Imaging invited four experts in their field, a solicitor, an award-winning photographer and two competition organisers and gave an overview of the legal framework and how to avoid pitfalls when entering competitions at The October Gallery in London on the 9th of September. The speakers included Nicola Solomon acknowledged as one of the leading legal experts on the law and photography, Gordon Harrison of Pro-Imaging who has been deeply involved in the development of Pro-Imaging's campaign against rights grabbing competitions, and Chris Coe, one of the UK's leading photographers who is also an organiser of competitions. Following the talks there was a lively question and answer session chaired by Nick Dunmur of Pro-Imaging who fielded the questions to the various panel members. The panel consisted of the speakers plus Jane Nichols, founding chairman of the Garden Photographers Association, and Claire Takacs, an award winning professional garden photographer based in Melbourne, Australia. Pro-Imaging are extremely grateful to Silvia Baumgart of Own-it who organised the entire event and made it such an interesting and enjoyable meeting.
A New Way For You To Help! We've devised a new way for you to help support us in the fight against rights grabbers - scroll down to the heading entitiled "Support the Bill of Rights for Photography Competitions III" to find out what it is!
Support the Bill of Rights for Photography Competitions I Would you like to help in this campaign? If you would like to help here is a very easy way to do it through your website, blog, or forums that you belong to. Please provide links to the following three pages on the Pro-Imaging website - Bill of Rights http://www.pro-imaging.org/content/view/177/156/ Rights On List http://www.pro-imaging.org/content/category/21/69/171/ Rights Off List http://www.pro-imaging.org/content/category/20/68/173/ These links are very important, the more of you that can do this the higher our campaign pages will appear in search engine rankings when people are looking for competitions to enter.
Support the Bill of Rights for Photography Competitions II Here's another simple way to help. Once a week, choose a competition on the Rights Off List, preferably one that's still running, any one that catches your eye, and send an email to the contacts listed in the competition report. Where we have given judges contact details write to them too. Tell them what you think about the contest rules, or just keep it simple and tell them you've found their competition on the Pro-Imaging Rights Off List and ask them to change the rules to comply with the Bill of Rights. We know that thousands of visitors have viewed our reports, and if each of you just send one email every week it will help our campaign enormously.
Support the Bill of Rights for Photography Competitions III Many countries have a freedom of information act that require publicly funded bodies to comply with requests for information from members of the public. Pro-Imaging believe this act should be used by the public to obtain information from cities, local governments, government departments, government agencies about the photo competitions they run. You can do this and request the following information for each contest -
Of course feel free to add your own questions that may be pertinant to a particular contest. We strongly urge everyone who is dismayed at the extent of rights grabbing occuring in the world to use the Freedom of Information Act in their country to get precise detail about the extent of it in publicly funded organisations. Pro-Imaging will be happy to publish such information.
RSS Feed We take the opportunity at this point each week to mention that if you want to keep up to date with the competition campaign, click on the orange RSS Feed icon in your browser address bar. You will recieve competition diary updates direct to your RSS feed. Regular visitors know this already, but new visitors arrive all the time!
Contacting Us We welcome notices telling us about contests that are either good or bad. You can use our Competitions Campaign Contact Form to tell us what you've found. We are especially keen to hear about good contests that you think pass our Bill of Rights, at the moment they are more difficult to find but as the campaign continues for the long term, we expect that to get easier. We try and reply to all the notices we receive, but this may not always be possible. We thank you here in advance for any help you offer. We never reveal the names of those who notify us of competitions.
Other Diary Entries Other competition diary entries can be read here.
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