Comments on: How DIT’s “Iomha ‘08″ photo contest can hijack your rights

By: AJ

AJ — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:19:23 +0000

This has been a long established pratice within Ireland and the UK for photo competitions. However normally it is a tad more restricted than this one. This one is quite precise s to what rights they want, and what you are giving up on.

Another such abuse, is the colleges. All work done by graphic students (when I was in college in 99/2000) remained the copyright of the college. This was noticed when a student whom took part in a project to design branded paper products for a national car testing organization. When the national car testing org came into being, their headed papers etc all struck a remarkable resemblance to this students work… When the students investigated their rights, they discovered that the college could do what they like.

In short, be careful where you place stuff, I even have some problems with services like Flickr, but then again, sometimes I just don’t care about the service provider.

By: ryan

ryan — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:09:55 +0000

Photo harvesting projects make baby Jesus cry!

By: Donncha

Donncha — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:31:14 +0000

Yes, in terms of what they can do with your photo it means nothing that the photographer retains copyright of their own photo. The “any other purposes” bit really irks me. I wouldn’t mind if a photo was used directly in relation to the competition but they’re given a free hand to do what they like with them with that clause.

By: Gamma Goblin

Gamma Goblin — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:59:56 +0000

“all entrants grant the competition organisers a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual licence to use and publish each entry in any and all media (including print and online), for exhibition, publicity and any other purposes which the competition organisers in their sole discretion deem appropriate”

Don’t worry though… “Entrants will retain copyright” … whatever that means.