The Competition
Royal National Institute for Deaf People; Without Sound Contest
Ends 15th August 2008
The Rules of this Contest
Listed below are extracts from the rules of this competition. These extracts detail the rights being claimed from entrants.
"3. RNID reserves the right to publish all or parts of entries other than the winning entry, and publication of their photo(s) does not necessarily mean that the entrant has won a prize. Entrants will retain copyright and moral rights in their submitted entries; however, by entering this competition, all entrants give RNID a non-exclusive licence to edit, publish and use all or segments of each entry in any and all media (including print and online) for publicity and news purposes solely and exclusively relating to the competition. There will be no commercial usage of the images with the exception of their publication in a book. The usage licence will expire two years from the closing date."
This contest meets every requirement of the The Bill of Rights.
For further information please visit the competition 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 the works
- 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 works commercially without the creators 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 works
- set a closing date more than 18 months after the contest launch date
- fail to make clear statements of rights claimed and how the works are used
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