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Old January 14th, 2008, 07:16 PM posted to rec.photo.digital, rec.travel.air, rec.travel.cruises,rec.travel.caribbean, uk.rec.competitions
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Default YA rip-off Photo Competition On the Web @ destinationfinder.com

"Andrew Koenig" wrote:
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Amazing photo competition, the chance to win a trip to Egypt to
photograph the pyramids for our front cover *
www.destination-finder.com


As usual, it pays to read the fine print:

You agree that any image entered into the competition
can be published by Destination Finder in any format
without further consent.


Not only without conest, but without any compensation, ever.


In other words, by entering the contest, you are essentially giving
away publication rights to every image you enter.

Amazing.


Which makes this co-called "contest" merely another troll for free
material.

Naturally, they'll someday be "tempted" to make some more money off of
all of the 'photo contest' entries by selling them all to some Stock
Photography outfit.

And since the registrant of the domain uses an IDentity Shield service
to keep their information private, you don't even know *who* you're
giving your copyrighted works away to.


-hh