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Subject: Re: [OM] Olympus Photo contest
From: Christopher Biggs <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 30 Mar 2000 08:40:41 +1000
"Barry B. Bean" <bbbean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> moved upon the face of the 'Net and 
spake thusly:

> On Mon, 27 Mar 2000 21:00:59 +0100, sje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> >Anyone who sets up a competition, asking entrants to relinquish copyright on
> >their images is IMHO up to no good. 
> 
> The radio station I used to work for did this annually. We were up
> front about it, and made no bones about what we were doing. We were
> looking for new logos and T-shirt designs, [snip]

I'd like to offer a counterexample that I saw recently.

A local credit union runs a competition:

        "The <name of business> acquisitive photographic awards"

Theme is set (basically it's "stuff that looks good on the wall of a
bank branch").

There's an entry fee (I think it was $20 for up to 5 prints).  Prints
will be returned if submitted with return postage.

The organizer will *buy* the 6 winning prints (just the prints, not
the full rights) for $BIGNUM (I think it was $5000) each.  The top N
(50?)  prints will be shown in an exhibition.  Prints in the
exhibition will be for sale at a price nominated by the photographer,
with proceeds of sale forwarded to the photographer.

Wow.

cjb.

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