New York Times Company

About this Organisation

According to their own website they are a leading media company with 2009 revenues of $2.4 billion. Their empire includes the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe and 15 other daily newspapers and over 50 websites. They state that one of their four key strategies is "aggressively restructuring our cost base" and that the company's core purpose is to "enhance society" by creating, collecting and distributing high quality news, information and entertainment.

About this Report

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ensuring that all their contests will comply with the Bill of Rights, Rights Off reports for that organisation will be unpublished.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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A Timely Global Mosaic, Created By All of Us

Closing Date Sunday, May 2, 2010 at 15:00 hours (U.T.C)?

RULES

Before listing some of the rules we should explain that what New York Times want everyone in the world to do is to send them a photograph of where they are at the above date/time. This is to enable them create "a Web-built image of one moment in time across the world." It is not clear from their copy why its so important to do this, perhaps the terms and conditions will help illuminate why -

3.3 You acknowledge that any submissions you make to the Service (i.e., user-generated content including but not limited to: comments, forum messages, reviews, text, shared TimesPeople activities, video, audio and photographs, as well as computer code and applications) (each, a "Submission") may be edited, removed, modified, published, transmitted, and displayed by The New York Times Company and you waive any rights you may have in having the material altered or changed in a manner not agreeable to you. Submissions made to the Service including shared TimesPeople activities, may also be included in our RSS feeds, APIs and made available for republishing through other formats.

3.4 You grant NYT a perpetual, nonexclusive, world-wide, royalty free, sub-licensable license to the Submissions, which includes without limitation the right for NYTimes.com or any third party The New York Times designates, to use, copy, transmit, excerpt, publish, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, create derivative works of, host, index, cache, tag, encode, modify and adapt (including without limitation the right to adapt to streaming, downloading, broadcast, mobile, digital, thumbnail, scanning or other technologies) in any form or media now known or hereinafter developed, any Submission posted by you on or to NYTimes.com or any other Web site owned by NYT, including any Submission posted on NYTimes.com through a third party.

We hope that makes everything quite clear. New York Times only want to use whatever you create, freely and forever, oh, yes, and you are to waive your moral rights too. It may help them meet one of their key strategies, i.e. "aggressively restructuring our cost base".

SPONSORS

None listed

CONTACT 

Send your complaints to the President and Chief Executive of the New York Times, that is Scott H. Heekin-Canedy at this email address; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Note that this is not really a competition, you don't get anything back, you just give stuff away, as if to a charity. So you may want to ensure that your complaints don't refer to a "competition". "Appeal" for instance may be a better word. You may wish to add your thoughts to their comments page.

To visit the appeal website click the title above. Note that the link may cease to work some time after the appeal results are announced.

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 15 April 2010

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 -

© Bill of Rights Supporters Group

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.