Live Nation EntertainmentAbout this Organisation
On Live Nation's website they state that they are involved in "concert promotion & venue operations, sponsorship, ticketing solutions, e-commerce and artist management". An interview with Michael Rapino, the Live Nation CEO, can be seen on CNBC. According to their latest annual report their total revenue for the year ending 2008 was $4.166 billion and also in that report they state that their business strategy is "to connect the artist to the fan". 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 is 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contests will comply with the Bill of Rights, the Rights Off report for that organisation's competition(s) will be unpublished.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. ### NikonLive Cool Shot ContestClosing Date 1 September 2010 Although the title of this competition is the NikonLive Cool Shot Contest the terms and conditions only grant rights to use the entrant images to Live Nation, not to Nikon, and the prizes are Live Nation products. Nikon Inc. (also known as Nikon USA) is apparently only involved in the judging process and by hosting the Live Nation competition on their own NikonLive website. It is assumed that the purpose of this arrangement is to bring music fans to the NikonLive website to promote awareness of the Nikon brand. For a number of years now Nikon Inc. has been pursuing a strategy to increase awareness of its brand amongst the huge worldwide community of music fans. Live Nation, the largest live entertainment company in the world, makes an ideal partner to fulfill that strategy. Listed below are some Nikon Inc. initiatives demonstrating how the strategy is being implemented. On April 18 2006 Nikon Inc. issued a press release announcing Nikon's sponsorship of Live Nation's Jones Beach Theatre, one of over 40 venues owned or operated by Live Nation. As part of the sponsorship deal the theatre is now promoted as Nikon at Jones Beach Theatre. Following Nikon Inc.'s announcement in 2007 of their new President, Yasuyuki Okamoto, they sponsored RECRD LBL to connect fans and musicians through digital photography. In the same press release they said they had launched NikonLive, a dynamic website alleged to enhance the live music experience. NikonLive was subsequently revamped in 2008 by Sposto Interactive then, according to a Nikon press release dated June 24 2010, was relaunched yet again as part of its sponsorship of the Nikon at Jones Beach Theatre with Live Nation. An arrangement with Live Nation provides Nikon's professional photographers with exclusive photo access at Live Nation events. Now Nikon Inc.'s partnership with Live Nation continues through the hosting of a Live Nation competition on the NikonLive website. The rules of this competition are discussed below. RULES SPONSOR and ADMINISTRATOR: The Sponsor of the Contest is GEAR UP ("Sponsor"). The administrator of the Contest is Live Nation Marketing, Inc. ("Administrator"). Sponsor and Administrator are collectively referred to herein as "Contest Entities." Administrator will conduct the Contest substantially as described in these Official Rules. By participating in the Contest each entrant agrees as follows: Acknowledges and agrees that, if an entrant's Submission wins, entrant will execute an affidavit of eligibility and liability release, in which winner will irrevocably assign and transfer to the Contest Entities any and all rights, title and interest in the Submission, including, without limitation, all copyrights, and waive all moral rights in that Submission. PUBLICITY, PRIVACY & PRIZE NOTIFICATION: Except where prohibited by law or regulation, by submitting an entry, entrant grants the Administrator a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free license to use his/her name, character, photograph, voice, and likeness in connection with the promotion of this and other Contest, and entrants waive any and all claims and/or rights to receive any royalties or other compensation for the Administrator's use thereof, unless prohibited by law. Winners may be required to complete, sign, notarize and return an affidavit of eligibility/liability release and a publicity release, which must be returned, properly executed, within three (3) days of issuance of prize notification. PRO-IMAGING COMMENT
The reader is referred to the Bill of Rights for more detail regarding the above issues. Although this competition is hosted on the Nikon Live website, and Nikon is involved in the judging process, the terms and conditions do not appear to grant any rights to Nikon to use submitted entries. Rights are only granted to Live Nation Marketing and the sponsor, GEAR UP. It is assumed that GEAR UP is Live Nation by another name because the address given in the rules for GEAR UP is the address of Live Nation's principal office at 9348 Civic Center Drive, Beverly Hills. Although acquiring no rights, it is surprising that Nikon should be content to even host a competition with rights grabbing terms and conditions. Especially so in view of the fact that Nikon have just published an article in the UK Nikon Pro magazine entitled - "The Big Issue:Whose Copyright is it Anyway How Corporations Try to Force Photographers to sign their Rights Away and What You Can Do About It" It is equally surprising that Live Nation, a huge corporation involved in artist management and media rights with major artists such as Madonna, Rolling Stones, and Barbra Streisand, should set terms and conditions that claim an entrants copyright, waiving of moral rights, and perpetual and unlimited usage. So while Live Nation's stated business strategy is to connect the artist to the fan, a commendable aim, the terms and conditions of this competition disconnect the winning fan from his rights. Obviously the competition is an excellent way of promoting both brand names but Pro-Imaging believe that the terms and conditions employed will not send the message both organisations wish to impart about their respective brands, especially to the worldwide creative community, many of whom will be potential consumers of Nikon and Live Nation products. Adopting the Bill of Rights principles would be huge PR gain for both companies, we urge them to become Bill of Rights Supporters. Pro-Imaging wrote to the President at Nikon Inc and the CEO at Live Nation and submitted a copy of this report to them. We urged them to review the terms and conditions of their competition and to become Bill of Rights Supporters. There was no reply. SPONSORS #Nikon is not actually listed as a sponsor in the competition T&C's but as they are hosting this contest on their Nikon Live website, Pro-Imaging, for the purposes of this report, deem them to be one. CONTACT To complain to the organiser write to Live Nation at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it and mark it for the attention of their CEO Michael Rapino. Also send a complaint to Nikon Inc. by sending an email to their corporate press representative Tara Naughton at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it and mark it for the attention of the President of Nikon Inc., Mr Yasuyuki Okamoto. To visit the competition website click the competition title above to submit the free photo we have created. 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. Where a contest automatically displays entrants images on the contest website as they arrive the free image can also be used to test the competition and determine if it is stripping metadata. The test results can be submitted to a survey by the Controlled Vocabulary Group. The Bill of Rights campaign depends on your active support, your help will make a difference. Updated on 9 August 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 -
We have written an Organisers Guide to the Bill of Rights to help organisers draft terms and conditions that respect the rights of entrants and at the same time provide legal protection for the organiser.
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