Guardian caught running second rights-grab competition
Competitions with paltry prizes and where each entry gets its copyright stolen proliferate. The big camera companies have been avoiding these but not the BBC. Has everyone seen the T&Cs on the Countryfile Calendar? How many of the photographers who submitted entries read the competition fine print, I wonder?
This latest story about the Guardian, which has been caught at this thievery once before, from EPUK.
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