 roberthambleyphoto.com - Robert Hambley Contact Robert Hambley Robert Hambley's Gallery |
Photography magazine submission rules Greetings, I was thinking of sending images into a digital photography magazine's monthly contest, but something in their guidelines put a halt on it. It read 'all submission become the property of publisher name.' I have emailed the editorial staff for clarification, but to me, that definitely sounds like, anything I would submit becomes their property. Not exactly what I would like to do. Does anyone else read that differently? I kept the magazine name and publisher out of the post for any potential legal reasons. Thanks,
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- Bob Cournoyer Contact Bob Cournoyer Bob Cournoyer's Gallery  |
Won't know till the mag answers your email. I would guess that they mean send a copy not the original because they don't plan on returning whatever you send them, not that you are forfeiting rights to the pic. Bob
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Peter K. Burian |
Robert: Why keep the magazine name a secret? If we knew that, we could check for ourselves and give you a more definitive opinion. The words you quoted do make it sound as if the magazine would then own rights to your images. Peter Burian
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roberthambleyphoto.com - Robert Hambley Contact Robert Hambley Robert Hambley's Gallery |
Greetings, The magazine is "Digital Photographer" by Miller Magazines. Their website is www.digiphotomag.com. Just didn't know if it was kosher to name them. Thanks,
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
I say it's to let you know they're not going to return it to you(not paying for postage, and don't want to keep track of what goes where), and if it's a winner, they'll publish it again if they want to announce an upcoming contest if they want to, so don't come crying about that's twice now, send another check.
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Pam M |
I've been paying more and more attention to the submission rules of various contests ... mostly because I started to wonder if the were all as outlandish as to claim that any and all submissions gave them rights to use the picture any old way they please ... mind you you still hold "copyright" but they have this right to use it however they please whenever they please ... and an amazing number ARE. Moreover, they also will often claim the right to use your name with the image. (Thus by association you could end up endorsing some interesting things) JUST as interesting ... check out yahoo's photo share ... and ... Nikonnet.com's galleries/photoshare ... if you use their galleries you give them the right to include your photo in a database ... "you agree that all Content posted or shared by you shall become part of a database in NikonNet, and that Nikon will own the database and copyright in any derivative works based on the Content" Hence I am here ... not just by fascination with the users and their photos but by also by the integrity of the Terms of Use ... and by BetterPhoto's commitment to at least slow down picture gathering via the right click button ... and fyi Google blogs are specific in that all rights to anything posted remains entirely in your copyright ... that you are not assigning user rights to them. ... ok ... i'm crawling down off this steep soap box ;) have fun
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
Well if anybody's going to have a contest, their going to have the picture at some point to promote the contest with an image that won a previous contest.
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Pam M |
Gregory, Why? ... there's lots of stock photos, etc. but what i'm saying is that they want to have rights to use the submitted pic ... any time any place for any reason ... often with your name for example ... check the rules at ACDSystems ... http://www.acdsystems.com/english/community/contests/index "12. By submitting your photo(s) to be considered in any applicable contest offered by ACD Systems, you hereby grant ACD Systems the non-exclusive, royalty-free, unlimited right to edit, publish, and use the photos and your name (as the photo(s) provider) for ACD Systems promotional purposes, which shall include but is not limited to ACD Systems e-mail and website promotions." you will notice it does not say promotion of future contests ... and ... "unlimited right to edit" ??? do I really want to give that away? Personally ... not me! These are just two examples from my "idle curiosity" tour of terms of use at a few sites ... the world remains: "Let the consumer beware." have fun,
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
Stock photos? Why use, and pay for mind you, a photo that wasn't entered in the contest? You should've noticed that things like that never have specific terms. It's to avoid the headache of this photo we can use, this one we can use but only if it's certain situations, this we're still waiting to find out. It's either we can use it, or we can't. Unlimited edit, they may crop part out if they need to. Noticed the display of past winners, with name, through this very website? Think Betterphoto would want to deal with the headache of having somebody try to claim it was okay to show my picture on the winners page, put having it on the home page as a past winner is promotion, give me some money for that. You cover your bases, as much as possible, when it comes to legal stuff. There's a jeep ad that was on tv where a guy coudn't get good reception on his tv. So it shows him going out in the snow, gets in his jeep and drives it to the top of his steeply angled, snow covered, triangular shaped house to adjust his antennae. And at the bottom of the screen, you see "Simulation. Do Not Attempt" Very necessary because there's always somebody who'll come and claim they showed it in the commercial, so it's there fault because somebody got hurt trying it.
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