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By: Passionate Rights Grab Rules Changed!

Passionate Rights Grab Rules Changed! — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:27:45 +0000

[...] this? The One North East competition for students that promised to take all the entrants’ [...]

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Passionate Rights Grab rules changed! | The Photography Pages — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:39:17 +0000

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By: brendadada

brendadada — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 22:47:55 +0000

Thank you Don. Letter to One NE and the competition sponsors has now been sent. Tuesday is going to be interesting: will write an update then.

By: Don Schaefer

Don Schaefer — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:12:49 +0000

It’s wonderful to see how active and enterprising you are. I look forward to seeing how you and your friends get on with managing your rights in this ill willed competition.

Best to learn the ropes early, but sorry it had to be the hard way. It is great you are spreading the word, and three cheers to pro-imaging.org, too!

boston, ma, usa

By: brendadada

brendadada — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:12:04 +0000

It’s accurate to say that two years spent learning from one’s (always costly) mistakes is what undergraduate life is like, unfortunately.

By: Gordon Harrison

Gordon Harrison — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:41:20 +0000

Well done Brenda for standing up for your rights!

Most competitions are just out to strip you of your rights, your creativity, and profit from your unique view of the world. There are a few good ones, but most are just harvesting other peoples creative ideas for free.

I hope all the students will simply so NO NO NO to all such competitions in future. Don’t be persuaded by anyone, even your tutors. Tutors ought to be protective of and nurturing the talents and rights of the students entrusted to their care.

By: Nick Dunmur

Nick Dunmur — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:24:03 +0000

More power to you for raising this issue. Well done…too many photographic competitions have T’s and C’s which grab rights from those who enter; some in the form of a permanent licence to use and others, like this, actually take – or claim to take – copyright.

it’s interesting to note that terms like this are illegal in law, so those that perpetuate them should think very hard about what it is they actually want.

If you have been ‘encouraged’ to take part in such a competition, that too is very sad. i would have hoped that photographic tutors would have their students’ interests at heart first and foremost.