Pro-Imaging

CVC Capital Partners t/a pbl Media t/a ACP Magazines

About this Organisation

ACP Magaines (formerly Australian Consolidated Press) claim that they are Australia's leading magazine publisher with over 60 titles including The Australian Womens Weekly, Womans Day and Australian Geographic, in total selling in excess of 106 million magazines a year. 

ACP Magazines is the magazine arm of PBL Media, Australia's leading media and entertainment company. PBL Media was formed in 2006 as a 50:50 joint venture between Publishing and Broadcasting Limited and private equity fund managers CVC Asia Pacific Ltd. At the tme of writing this report CVC Capital Partners have acquired a 75% stake in PBL Media and currently own 53 companies worldwide.

The pbl Media website has details of the overall organisational structure of these companies and details of the ACP Magazines management team.

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contests will comply with the Bill of Rights, the Rights Off report for that organisation's competition(s) will be unpublished.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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Australian Geographic; Submit Your Best Birdlife Shot

Closing Date 23 May 2010

RULES

2. By submitting the photograph using the email address provided, you agree to licence all rights to use the photo to ACP Magazines on a royalty-free and non-exclusive basis.You provide ACP Magazines with the right to use, reproduce, modify, and publish the photo for any purpose, without renumeration, compensation, restriction or liability.

PRO-IMAGING COMMENT

1. Rule 2 enables ACP Magazines to modify the entrants images without restriction, in effect denying the entrant his moral rights. The Bill of Rights does not permit this.

2. The terms and conditions do not state that the entrant will always be credited when his work is reproduced.

3. All entrants, whether winners or not, are granting ACP Magazines use of their work for ever, the Bill of Rights requires a time limit on usage to be set.

4. 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

None listed.

CONTACT 

To complain to the organiser use this email address This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , mark your email for the attention of Phil Scott, Publishing Director, Men's, Specialist & Custom Titles at ACP Magazines. Also cc it to Scott Briggs, Manager of Corporate and Regulatory Affairs at pbl Media at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

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

To visit the competition website click the competition title above.  Note that the competition link may cease to work at some point after the competition 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.

Alternatively, or as well as, you can submit the free image we have prepared to register your complaint simply by entering the free image to the contest. The free image can also be used to test the competition to determine if it is stripping metadata and then submit the results of the test to a survey. Submit the free image to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

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

Updated on 3 May 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.