Pop Photo Contest- REALLY!

[DEMDeepEllumMusic]

| Travelographer of the Year Contest - PopPhoto.com

ENERAL RULES & LIMITATIONS: By entering, you represent that: (i) your entry is your own original work; and (ii) you own or have the rights to convey any and all right and title in any material submitted as part of your entry into the Contest.. By entering, you grant to Sponsor a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to edit, publish, promote, republish at any time in the future and otherwise use your submission, along with your name and likeness, in any and all media for any purpose, without further permission, notice or compensation (except where prohibited by law). By participating in the Contest, you agree to release Sponsor and its parent companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, employees, directors, officers, and agents from any and all liability, claims or actions of any kind whatsoever for injuries, damages or losses to persons and property which may be sustained in connection with the receipt, ownership, possession, use, or misuse of any prize. .Sponsor is not responsible for technical, hardware or software failures, or other errors or problems which may occur in connection with the Contest, whether computer, network, technical, mechanical, typographical, printing, human or otherwise, including, without limitation, errors or problems which may occur in connection with the administration of the Contest, the processing or judging of entries, the announcement of the prizes, in any Contest-related materials, or that may limit prize fulfillment or a participant's ability to enter the Contest. Sponsor reserves the right to amend these official rules and to permanently disqualify from the Contest any person it believes has intentionally violated these official rules.

Plus you pay $10 to give them these rights even if you don't win?

The prizes are not even really that great!

[janikphoto]

Yeah, they should only ask for non-exclusive rights from the winners. I understand why they do it, so they can use your winning pics in the ads and promotions for future contests without paying you again. However, the people who didn't win shouldn't be forced to give away rights for nothing.

[DEMDeepEllumMusic]

Yeah YOU Pay for them to have basically unlimited rights to reuse your photos pretty much in anyway that they want, but they will get submissions because people just won't read before submitting.

There are a couple magazines out there that are like that also, I've had my family ask me why I didn't submit anything to them for publication and I point out the facts.

[Todd Lambert]

Most contests are becoming these right grabbing events nowadays.

Think about it, for $4000(Actually much much less/free, esp if you factor in the entry fees) they are basically getting a large pool of "professional" grade photography for which they can use any way they see fit.

What a deal!

[DEMDeepEllumMusic]

With people PAYING to submit photos they may actually net their labor costs to build this collection of works that they have free rights in any current or future publication that they operate or affiliate with.

So always READ the FINE PRINT!

[KobraCarry]

That all may be true, but for the up and coming who wants to get their photos exposed, they don't have many other options.

[Tom]

There are many other options for getting your photos in print without paying someone to do it.

[DEMDeepEllumMusic]

This doesn't guarantee you anything other than you giving them all the rights to use the photos at anytime in the future with no compensation to you.

Really a good online portfolio with proper key words may be seen by more people all over the world than this magazine, so spend that submission fee on a website where you retain your rights.

[texkam]

Contests suck. There, I said it.

[Tom]

Originally Posted by texkam

Contests suck. There, I said it.

I agree. I've never entered into any photo contest of any kind at any time. I don't need the validation in the form of little glass or metal trophies. It amazes me when some people seem to find their validation in that or promote winning obscure contests as proof they are a good photographer.

The proof is in the pudding.

[revjvegas]

mmm....pudding

[KobraCarry]

Originally Posted by Thomas Campbell

There are many other options for getting your photos in print without paying someone to do it.

Why don't you compile a list of them and post them then. Are you stalking me? Every post I make yours seems to be the next.

[Tom]

I only really look at a couple of the forums. Open Talk, Equipment, Lighting, Business and Wedding and the People/Wedding/Sports galleries.

Getty Images searches Flickr for photographers and photographs.
Local small newspapers and magazines are always looking for people to take pics on the cheap.

[Carl Stone]

Originally Posted by KobraCarry

Why don't you compile a list of them and post them then. Are you stalking me? Every post I make yours seems to be the next.

You've been asking for a lot of advice, then when someone qualified tries to give it to you, you ask him if he's stalking you.

[Imagebuffet]

I never enter contests, for exactly this reason. I resent that, for a negligible amount of money, a major publisher gets hundreds of the best images people can produce, free for the publisher to use any way they desire. But, I thought that I was in the minority, as it seemed that most other photographers consider this simply the price of entry into the field.