Art Contests – RTFP
Thinking of entering an Art Contest? – Read the Fine Print.
I saw a link to a new art contest in New York from a Tequila company.
Sounded interesting, then I read the rules.
Here is the one that caught my eye:
7. License: Emailing a Submission constitutes entrant’s granting to Sponsor of a royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, create derivative works from, and display all or any part of the Submission in whole or in part, on a worldwide basis, and to incorporate it into other works, in any form, media or technology now known or later developed, including for promotional or marketing purposes.
So just by submitting your art to the contest (repeat, just submittting, not winning the contest) you are giving the sponsor of the contest the rights to use the art you submitted however they want (plus modify it) FOREVER, without any compensation!
Read the fine print before entering an art contest.
October 20, 2010 at 11:11 pm
Thanks so much for having pointed this out. I have recently set up a site that highlights contests in several categories, and actually find it quite hard to find decent art contests.
I try to select contests that award cash prizes, or which will help advance a person’s career. But at the moment, the adult pacifier – otherwise known as an iPad – is what most sponsors of competitions seem to have on offer.
There are so many scams out whereby one loses all control of ones intellectual and physical property. But to add insult to injury, a lot of competitions even have the gall to demand entrants’ fees…desperate times is all I can think of as an explanation.
A Hood – prizedo.com