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2009 07 30 NSW Fishing & Aquaculture Freshwater Fishing Photo Contest

Australia, NSW Fishing & Aquaculture; Freshwater Fishing Photo Contest ends 30 July 2009

Click the above title to see the contest rules page.

This competition 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 to illustrate this 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
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 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 competition. These extracts detail the rights being claimed from entrants.

"By submitting an entry to the Fresh Water Fishing Photo Competition each entrant agrees to

assign all intellectual and property rights in each photo to NSW DPI (photographs will not be returned unless specifically requested); and
allow the photo(s) to be used for any purpose, including publication in NSW DPI publications and on the internet."

Pro-Imaging Comment - These rules are very brief and simple, and extremely bad, they are removing your copyright. Do not enter this competition.

Organisations - Australian NSW Fishing and Aquaculture Department, this is part of the NSW Department of Primary Industries

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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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