AOP Open Awards 2010

Organised by the United Kingdom Association of Photographers, on-line entry is now open for the photography competition accessible to everyone!

From professional photographers to assistants, students, keen amateurs and even occasional snappers, this is the competition in which everyone competes on equal terms.

There are no categories or themes: the aim of the Open is to showcase outstanding individual images with a diversity of styles and subject matter.

The entry fee is £15 per image and the deadline is 16th May 2010.

For further information please visit the competition website.

Green traffic light This competition meets all the standards set out 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.
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.

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