The Competition
NSS Cave Arts and Music Salons
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This contest, organised by the United States National Speleologocal Society consists of ten different salons covering a wide range of artistic disciplines including music, sculpture, multimedia presentations, and the visual arts including photography. The Salon's Home Page has a menu linking to pages providing further details for each salon.
For photographers there are two salons, the Photo Salon to which slides and digital images can be submitted, and the Print Salon to which photographic prints can be submitted. Note that the various salons have different closing dates, the closing date for the Photo Salon is 15 May 2010 and for the Print Salon it is 31 July 2010.
For further information please visit the NSS Salons website.
Complies with the Bill of Rights
This competition meets all the standards set out in
the Bill of Rights For Artists
Competitions which comply with the conditions set out in the Bill of Rights For Artists 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 3 years
- use the images commercially without the photographers agreement, and such commercial usage is to be rights managed and limited to 3 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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