A Photography Contest Presented by pdn

Awards & Exposure

Deadline; June 21 2010

One grand prize winner will receive a Milk Studios prize package worth $5,000. The package includes: one rental of Milk's Formula studio, equipment & lighting rental, and Milk digital capture services.

A winner will be selected in each category and will receive:

• A PDN PhotoServe portfolio ($860 value)
• A digital camera
• A full page in the September 2010 issue of PDN as well as placement in The Look contest gallery hosted on PDNonline.com

The categories include Advertising, Editorial/Celebrity, Still Life/Accessories. Personal Work/Fine Art/Avante Garde, Runway/Street Scene, Beauty, and Debut [Student/Emerging]

For further information please visit the Photo District News competition website.

Green traffic light This competition meets all the standards set out in the Bill of Rights. Note that although Pro-Imaging will promote competitions sponsored by organisations which support the Royalty Free licensing model, this does not imply that Pro-Imaging support Royalty Free Licensing. Our only consideration in this report is compliance with the Bill of Rights for Photography Competitions. 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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NB. If the competition rules are changed after updated date shown above it is the competition organisers responsibility to notify Pro-Imaging of changes made. If Pro-Imaging is notified of rule changes by the organiser the competition rules will be reviewed again for compliance with the Bill of Rights.

Organisers can notify Pro-Imaging of updated rules by using this contact form.