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2009 03 20 The Independent; Adventure Travel Show; Photo Appeal

The Independent; Adventure Travel Show 2009; Photo Appeal ends 20 March 2009

Click the above title to see the contest rules page.

This image appeal has been notified to Pro-Imaging by our contributors because it fails to comply with the Bill of Rights. Pro-Imaging have verified that the rules do not fully comply with the Bill of Rights and in doing so we treated this image appeal as a photo competition with no prizes on offer.

Extracts from this competitions rules are listed below. This report has been made available to the organiser.

If you are a competition organiser and want to understand why your competition appears here please note the following bullet points. Briefly, competitions which pass the Bill of Rights do not -

claim copyright
seek waiving of moral rights
fail to give a credit for all free usage.
seek usage rights other than for solely and exclusively promoting the contest. Note that a book, posters, cards, or a calendar are seen as legitimate ways of promoting the contest and defraying costs.
seek free usage rights in excess of 5 years
use the images commercially without the photographers agreement, and such commercial usage is to be rights managed and limited to 5 years.
make it a condition of winning that an entrant must sign a commercial usage agreement.
fail to publish all documents on the competition website that an entrant may have to sign
fail to name the judges for this or last year's competition
fail to explicitly state all the organisations who will acquire rights to the images
set a closing date more than 18 months after the contest launch date
fail to make clear statements of rights claimed and how images are used.

This competition has failed on one or more of the above. Click on any of the highlighted links in the above bullet points for further information, and of course comprehensive detail on all these points is given in the Bill of Rights.

The Rules of this Contest

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

"If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with The Adventure Travel Show Terms and Conditions.

We ask that you stick to what is legal, tasteful and civil. We ask that you do not post any content that:

Is racist, homophobic, sexist, or demeaning to either sex, abusive, sexually explicit, pornographic, of a violent or disturbing nature or that preaches, encourages or incites religious or ethnic hatred;
Is defamatory towards others;
Infringes copyright or other intellectual property rights;
Promotes commercial products
Is an unsuitable image of a child
Is an unsuitable image of any person in a state of undress.

We reserve the right not to publish, or to remove or edit, any material that we consider to be unsuitable for publication for any reason.

You must be over 18 to enter."

Pro-Imaging Comment - We hardly know what to say about these terms and conditions!

They give absolutely no indication of what the images will be used for, how long, whether they will be credited, or licensed to other organisations. They are completely unclear and so fail the Bill of Rights. We cannot advise anyone to submit images to The Independent; Adventure Travel Show 2009, it's not recommended.

Organisations - The Independent, The Independent Traveller

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The above text may be reproduced providing the Pro-Imaging copyright notice is displayed with a link to the Pro-Imaging website.

Text reproduced above in quotes has been extracted from the competition website for the purposes of review in this report.

NB. If the competition rules are changed after updated date shown above it is the competition organisers responsibility to notify Pro-Imaging of changes made. If Pro-Imaging is notified of rule changes by the organiser the competition rules will be reviewed again for compliance with the Bill of Rights. The competition will be moved to the Rights On List when the rules comply with the Bill of Rights.

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