Werner Publishing Corporation

About this Organisation

Werner Publishing Corporation, a USA business based in West Los Angeles, produces a range of consumer magazines and has been doing so for over 40 years. Amongst its titles are three photography magazines, Outdoor Photographer, Digital Photo and Digital Photo Pro. Werner Publishing Corporation is a privately held company and its President is Steven Werner.

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 do not comply with the standards set out in the Bill of Rights a report such as this produced and a link to it is added to the Rights Off List. We have listed in this report the terms and conditions not in compliance with 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 comply with 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contests will comply with the Bill of Rights, the Rights Off report for that organisation's competition(s) will be unpublished.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 standards set out in the Bill of Rights.

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3rd Annual Your Favorite Places Photo Contest

Closing Date 7 June 2010

RULES

This contest is promoted by Werner Publishing Corporation's Outdoor Photographer magazine.

WINNER NOTIFICATION: Potential winners will be notified by telephone, mail and/or e-mail on or about June 25, 2010 and will be required to execute and return an Affidavit of Eligibility and Liability and, unless prohibited, a Publicity Release, a W-9 Form and any additional documents that may be required by prize provider within fourteen (14) days of date of issuance.

USE OF ENTRY: By submitting an entry, entrant grants Sponsor and its designees an irrevocable, royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide perpetual license to use the entry and his/her name, city and state of residence for credit purposes in Sponsor’s online galleries, without further compensation, notification or permission, unless prohibited by law. In addition, each winner grants to the Sponsor and its designees an irrevocable, royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide perpetual license to use and distribute the entry [(as submitted, or as cropped by Sponsor)], and his/her name, city and state of residence for credit purposes, in any and all media now or hereafter known, including without limitation in Outdoor Photographer magazine, for purposes of promotion of this Contest and other Sponsor contests and/or for purposes of advertising and promoting Sponsor and, except as otherwise stated herein, without further compensation, notification or permission, unless prohibited by law.

PRO-IMAGING COMMENT

1. The terms and conditions state that potential winners are required to complete various additional forms, but the small print of these additional forms is not displayed on the competition website. The Bill of Rights requires all terms and conditions to be on display, even those additional ones that potential winners may have to agree to. It is not a normal business practice to only make some of the terms and conditions available then require a person to agree to all of the terms and conditions.

2. All entrants, whether winners or not, are granting the sponsor (& its designees) use of their work for ever, the Bill of Rights requires a time limit on usage to be set.

3. All entrants are granting the sponsor usage beyond that needed to promote the contest, images will be used for other purposes. The Bill of Rights requires usage to be restricted to promoting the contest, and no other purpose.

The reader is referred to the Bill of Rights for more detail regarding the above issues.

SPONSORS

#Duggal Visual Solutions  #Gitzo  #LumiQuest  #Manfrotto  #PNY Technologies  #Tamrac

CONTACT 

Use this email address This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it if you wish to write to the organiser. Debra Levine is a member of the Werner Publishing Imaging Group Team.

Pro-Imaging have notified this organisation about the publishing of this report.

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Updated on 21 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 -

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

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