A Travel Photography Contest with Fabulous Prizes!

Everyone loves taking pictures while on vacation. And what could possibly be better than winning a prize for one of those pictures?

    Small Luxury Hotels of the World launches its Inaugural Worldwide Photography Competition, asking travelers to submit their most inspired moments caught on film. The contest (completely online) will run from March 17, 2008 to July 31, 2008. Entrants will have the opportunity to upload 10 images and all photographs will be viewable in an online gallery on the website.

    The four top prize winners will all receive a brand new Nikon D80 SLR 10.2 Camera with an 18-135mm zoom lens, plus, (in ranking order from first place to fourth place) one of four incredible prize getaways including two round-trip tickets on American Airline and…
•    A six-night Costa Rican adventure spent at both Hotel Punta Islita and Gaia Hotel & Reserve
•    A five-night English town & country experience spent at both The Capital Hotel in London and Luton Hoo Country Estate
•    A four-night Mexican escape at Esencia on the Riviera Maya
•    A three-night big apple experience in New York City at the Iroquois New York.

For more details and to enter the contest visit www.slhphotocontest.com

Comments

[Jeff Curto]

But wait....

Read the "fine print:"

It is a condition of entry to the competition that in relation to each photograph submitted to the competition, together with those taken by prize winners during the course of their prize winning trip, the entrant/prize winner thereby grants to the organiser a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty free, transferable, worldwide licence to use, copy, publicly display, distribute, sub-licence, modify, make derivative works and otherwise fully exploit such photograph for all commercial purposes, including marketing and promotion of Small Luxury Hotels of the World, through any media outlet and in any format without attribution of copyright to the entrant/prize winner and without any payment, compensation or permission.
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Looks like it's "Free Pictures for Small Luxury Hotels of the World."

Let's be careful out there!

-Jeff

[Mike]

Yeah, I checked out this contest and was thinking this is a pretty sweet contest and also no entry fee. I was already thinking of the photos I could submit.
Then I got to the "fine print" and how the organizer of the contest can use the photos you submit. There is something about a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide licence to use, ability to sub-license, fully exploit such photograph for all commercial purposes, etc, etc, etc.... that makes me extremely uncomfortable.
Looks like I won't be submitting photos to this contest.

It's be a great idea for PDNedu to do a post about terms of use, licensing agreements that we should be wary of and what specific terms mean.