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2008 12 04 Photobox;The First Post - Photograph Urban Britain

Photobox; Photograph Urban Britain ends 4 December 2008

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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
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 competition. These extracts are only from those rules that are subject to the provisions in the Bill of Rights.

"Images submitted may be used by The First Post and Photobox solely to promote the competition and may be used within a five year period. This includes the images being featured in web albums, plus a photo book that will be given to all the winners and runners up, and may also be sold through Photobox. All images in this photo book will of course be credited and the copyright remains with each photographer.

The Winners will be selected by The First Post Picture Editor and their decision is final. The winners will then be announced by email and winning photos will be featured on both The First Post and Photobox websites."

Pro-Imaging Comment

This competition meets all of the criteria listed in the bullet points above and is recommended.

Organisations - The First Post, Photobox

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