BMW Photo Contest - Beware!
Hi,
Some of you might have come across this 2010 calendar competition on the BMW Motorrad website:
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I had a look through the contest's terms & conditions and found the following quite concerning:
"7. Copyright [...] b) Assignment of rights
Every participant grants the organizer and its partners unlimited, non-exclusive rights in terms of space, time and content - including the rights to process the submitted images."
In other words: BMW has the right to do whatever they want with ANY of the submitted images (not only the winning ones). For as long as they want.
That's probably why "...you are welcome to send older photographs if you like, as we are equally interested in historical pictures."
Come on, BMW! Trying to build an image library for free, are we?
How cheeky is that???
Bjorn
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