Pro-Imaging

Competico Limited, #UK

Photo competitions and image appeals are notified to us by our contributors from around the world. Listed below are some photo competitions or image appeals promoted by the above organisation which have not met the standards set out in the Bill of Rights.

If the terms and conditions of a contest or appeal fail to meet the standards set out in the Bill of Rights the organisation is added to the Rights Off List and a report such as this produced. We have listed in this report the terms and conditions which failed the Bill of Rights to help the organiser carry out a review. The extracted terms and conditions are shown below in italics.

For advice on why failing to meet the standards set out in the Bill of Rights is a serious issue please read this article.

If at some future date a competition organiser decides to join the Bill of Rights Supporters Group, thus ensuring that all their contests will comply with the Bill of Rights, Rights Off reports for that organisation will be unpublished.

The purpose of the Bill of Rights Campaign is to provide education to the public about the value of rights and to encourage photography competition organisers to adopt the ethical practices set out in the Bill of Rights.

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Photo Contest

Ongoing, various competitions

RULES

1. Your Acceptance

By using Competico.com website (hereinafter: "the site"), a service of Competico Limited, you agree that you have read and you fully agree with the terms of this agreement for all past, present and future uses of the site.

Competico.Com reserves the right to make changes to any part of this agreement at any time without any prior notification on its part to you. The changes will apply to your use of the site once Competico.com posts such changes in this agreement. Therefore you should review this agreement as posted on the site form time to time.

9. Copyrights

You hereby declare that you retain full ownership of the copyright and other intellectual property rights of the multimedia file submitted by you to the site.

You hereby grant Competico a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty free, worldwide license to use, publicly display, distribute, sublicense, modify and otherwise fully exploit any Multimedia file that you submit to Competico.Competico may do any or all of the foregoing for any purpose necessary or relating to the Site and/or Competico Limited services, products or advertising. Any multimedia file that you submit is deemed as non-confidential, and Competico.com shall be under no obligation to maintain the confidentiality of any information, in whatever form, contained in the multimedia file.

You shall be solely responsible for the Content and the consequences of posting or publishing it. In connection with the Content you affirm that: (i) you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to use and authorize Competico.com to use all patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights attributable to the multimedia file and to any and all Content to enable inclusion and use of the Content in the manner contemplated by the Site and this Agreement; and (ii) you have the written consent, release, and/or permission of each and every identifiable individual person in the Content to use the name or likeness of each and every such identifiable individual person to enable inclusion and use of the Content in the manner contemplated by the Site and this Agreement. Competico has the right at its sole discretion to refuse to post Content for any reason, including, but not limited to, submitted Content that appears to contain material protected by intellectual property rights held by any third parties.

You agree that Competico.com is not responsible for any violations of any intellectual property rights in any Content that you submit to Competico.com. You understand that by using these services your Content will be publicly available to others and that Competico.com has no obligation to prevent the unauthorized copying, dissemination, alternation or other use of your Content by others.

SPONSORS

None listed

CONTACT

Mr. Ran Shelag; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

You can help the Bill of Rights campaign by complaining to the organiser urging them to change their terms and conditions. If time is at a premium for you we have prepared a complaint email which you can copy and send to the organiser.

The Bill of Rights campaign depends on your active support, your help will make a difference.

Updated on 3rd July 2009

The Bill of Rights Standards for Photography Competitions

Competitions which meet all the standards set out in the Bill of Rights do not do any of the following -

claim copyright
seek waiving of moral rights
fail to give a credit for all free usage.
add, alter, or remove metadata from digital images
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.

We have written an Organisers Guide to the Bill of Rights to help organisers draft terms and conditions that respect the rights of entrants and at the same time provide legal protection for the organiser.

The above text may be reproduced providing a link is given to the Bill of Rights For Photography Competitions.

Any text reproduced above in italics has been extracted from a competition website for the purposes of review.

Organisations who would like to be promoted as a Bill of Rights Supporter and have their competitions promoted on the Rights On List can use this contact form. One of the campaign team will get in touch with you.