VSP PHOTO CONTEST: Enter to win cash to travel to your dream photography destination!

[SamBerko]

Expert and aspiring photographers: Enter your own original pictures for chances to win a new camera, $500 worth of gear, plus more!
To promote good eye health for children and families, VSP is running a “See the World” Photo contest with the theme of People Important to You. To get people motivated, they’re giving away exciting prizes including a Grand Prize of $5,000 toward a trip wherever the winner wishes to travel. There will also be one (1) First Runner Up winner who will receive a digital camera, and one (1) Second Runner Up who will receive a $500 shopping spree for electronics and photo equipment. Participants can submit one new photo entry every day. It’s for a good cause and the prizes appeal to photographers of all skill levels.
Contest ends October 26th at midnight. Get your photos submitted before then, and don’t forget to submit one every day!
Contest details: www.seemuchmore.com/photo-contest

[BuddhaPi]

beware!!

"all eligible participants acknowledge and agree that all entry materials submitted in connection with this contest are submitted on a non-confidential and non-proprietary basis and may be used by sponsor, its agents and subsidiaries, for advertising and promotional purposes including (but not limited to) in connection with the online community voting site as described in these official rules."

"GRANT OF LICENSE: By entering the Contest, entrants grant Sponsor, its agents, subsidiaries and affiliates and Tenthwave Digital LLC (the “Licensees”) a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sub-licensable right to exercise the copyright, publicity, database rights and any other rights entrant has in the Entry, in any media now known or hereafter devised (including without limitation, the internet), without any compensation. Further, by entering the Contest, entrant grants Licensees the additional license to modify, adapt, translate, create derivative works from, and distribute the Entry (with the understanding that Licensees are under no obligation to do so), or incorporate the Entry into any form, medium or technology, including the right, at each Licensee’s sole discretion, to publish the Entry and to use the Entry for advertising and promotional purposes. Licensees shall not be required to designate entrant as the creator or author of Entry that is distributed or otherwise exploited by Licensees, or include any references to entrant on, or in connection with, any Entry that is distributed or otherwise exploited by Licensees."

[andyw]

This is nothing more nor less than an outright copyright grab

The terms are one of the worst I have seen from a competition for a long long time.

I will be posting these terms on various boards to warn others not to go anywhere near this competition.

[Jonbar18]

Saw this on Google+. Colby brown's share of Grant collier's original post

Colby Brown - Yesterday 2:37 PM (edited) - Public
I would be lying if I said I didn't laugh out loud at this. Nicely done +Grant Collier.
Grant Collier originally shared this post:
PHOTO CONTEST!

I'm holding an exciting new photo contest! It's called "Give Grant Collier Your Photo" Contest. Please share this, as I really need to get the word out.

The rules are simple:
Send me your very best photos and give me a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, unrestricted, worldwide license to the photographs.

The winner will be determined by whoever can beg enough people on their Facebook / Twitter pages to vote for their photos. This is the only fair way to select a winner, as it will ensure that even the worst photos have a chance of winning. More importantly, it will give lots of extra publicity to the contest and to my companies (Colorado Photography, Nature, Landscape Images, Utah, photos, pictures and Colorado Photography Festival, nature & wildlife workshops), and it will convince more suckers, er, I mean photographers, to give me their photos in the future.

I'll give away some token prize to the winner if I can get a sponsor to give me one. If not, I'll post the winning photo here, where it will be seen by tens, maybe even hundreds of people, and you will gain instant fame and celebrity. Then I'll use your photos forever without paying you a dime.

Sound shady? Don't worry, it's not. Many reputable companies, including National Geographic, the New York Times, Disney, Outdoor Photographer, Popular Photography, Time Warner, Adobe, Canon, Fuji, Audobon, The Nature Conservancy, the Sierra Club, and the National Parks Foundation, have done the same thing.

[High_Speed]

Colby Brown - Yesterday 2:37 PM (edited) - Public
I would be lying if I said I didn't laugh out loud at this. Nicely done +Grant Collier.
Grant Collier originally shared this post:
PHOTO CONTEST!

I'm holding an exciting new photo contest! It's called "Give Grant Collier Your Photo" Contest. Please share this, as I really need to get the word out.

The rules are simple:
Send me your very best photos and give me a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, unrestricted, worldwide license to the photographs.

The winner will be determined by whoever can beg enough people on their Facebook / Twitter pages to vote for their photos. This is the only fair way to select a winner, as it will ensure that even the worst photos have a chance of winning. More importantly, it will give lots of extra publicity to the contest and to my companies (Colorado Photography, Nature, Landscape Images, Utah, photos, pictures and Colorado Photography Festival, nature & wildlife workshops), and it will convince more suckers, er, I mean photographers, to give me their photos in the future.

I'll give away some token prize to the winner if I can get a sponsor to give me one. If not, I'll post the winning photo here, where it will be seen by tens, maybe even hundreds of people, and you will gain instant fame and celebrity. Then I'll use your photos forever without paying you a dime.

Sound shady? Don't worry, it's not. Many reputable companies, including National Geographic, the New York Times, Disney, Outdoor Photographer, Popular Photography, Time Warner, Adobe, Canon, Fuji, Audobon, The Nature Conservancy, the Sierra Club, and the National Parks Foundation, have done the same thing.

That's flipping hilarious!

[ChrisAdval]

Originally Posted by andyw

This is nothing more nor less than an outright copyright grab

The terms are one of the worst I have seen from a competition for a long long time.

I will be posting these terms on various boards to warn others not to go anywhere near this competition.

is there any good and legit competitions you recommend? I know searching google will give me 99% illegitimate results.

[sk66]

I like that they used the word "exploited" in the terms.....doesn't get much clearer than that!

[sk66]

Originally Posted by ChrisAdval

is there any good and legit competitions you recommend? I know searching google will give me 99% illegitimate results.

I haven't seen one in a while...

Honestly, I can't say I blame them.....
With so many on Flickr etc with decent gear who would be thrilled just to get a pic published anywhere....why would you ever pay for a stock/private photo again?

Hell, even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while. There's plenty to pick from.

[andyw]

Originally Posted by ChrisAdval

is there any good and legit competitions you recommend? I know searching google will give me 99% illegitimate results.

There are loads of legit contests around all you have to do is make sure you read the entry terms thoroughly though.
check out this site which lists hundreds. Photography Competitions - Photo Contests - Photo Awards

I am not guaranteeing the veracity of any of them though, you have to check them out yourself.

[sk66]

"Legit"?
I guess it depends on the definition.... I took a quick gander because I was curious...And many(but not all) left all copyright to the photographer. But DAMN! I wish I had thought of that!

They're mostly "photographic raffle contests".

You send me money for entry, along with a bunch of other people. I will select a couple winners and give them a "prize"...maybe even a little bit of all the money I collected.