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2008 11 30 Bovril; Favourite Places Photo Competition

Bovril; Favourite Places Photo Competition ends 30 November 2008

This competition complies with all the conditions in the Bill of Rights. Competitions which pass the Bill of Rights do not -

claim copyright
seek waiving of moral rights
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

This competition has passed all 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 competition. These extracts detail the rights being claimed from entrants.

"In consideration of the Promoter granting entrants a right to enter the relevant promotion, each entrant automatically grants to the Promoter the right to use their submission in connection with the Promotion in any and all media,including the Promoter's website www.bovril.co.uk/photos during the Promotion and for 12 weeks thereafter. The use of a submission in any media other than the website shall include the following credit: [© 2008 entrant's name and county.

A panel of judges from creative agency Billington Cartmell together with one independent judge will be solely responsible for selecting the winning photos."

Pro-Imaging Comment - This contest is recommended.

Organisations - Unilever UK Ltd

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