STANFORDS

Capture Bristol;

Travel Photography Competition

Closing Date 6 July 2010

This competition is open to residents of the UK and Ireland and students with a valid student visa studying in the UK during 2010, aged 18 years or over, except for employees of Stanfords and Lonely Planet, their families or anyone else associated with the competition.

Could you be a travel photographer? Can you take a shot of Bristol that’s inspirational, engaging and gives a real insight into the unique culture, people, activities and environment of the city?

For further information please visit the 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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