Nuvali/ Ayala Land Photo Contest (Revised T&C)

After a 'careful review,' the organizers (hired by Nuvali to organize said contest on their behalf) of the Nuvali/ Ayala Land Photo Contest dubbed as NUVALI Dirt Bike Weekend Photographers Tour and Photo Contest had made some revisions which appear hereunder. The text in italics was by the author of this blog.

NUVALI Dirt Bike Weekend Photographers Tour and Photo Contest
Terms and Conditions:

1. The photo contest is a required output of the tour. All tour participants are required to submit five (5) entries per category.

2. Categories are (which looks more like a shotlist rather than categories):

• NUVALI Wildlife and Bird Sanctuary/Bike Trails
• Bird Photos
• Dirt Weekend Event Photos
• NUVALI Evoliving Center
• Koi Photos
• Lakeside Photos
• Solenad Photos
• Free Style

3. Three winners per category shall be selected – 1st Place, 2nd Place and 3rd Place.

4. Category winners shall receive:

• 1st Place: Php 5,000.00 cash
• 2nd Place: Php 3,000.00 cash
• 3rd Place: Php 1,000.00 cash

5. Format

• To join said contest, you are required to submit your photo entries (either raw or enhanced; minimum of 300 DPI resolution) by uploading it at the NUVALI website: www.nuvalievoliving.com between October 10 to 14, 2009
• You may also opt to submit the entries immediately after the tour through the assistance of the onsite events agency team

6. By participating in the NUVALI Dirt Weekend Photographer’s Tour and Photo Contest, the photographer agrees that any image submitted may be used by NUVALI for their marketing and promotional efforts of this event or future events and/or marketing and promotional requirements of NUVALI. These uses include but are not limited to the following:

• Displaying of images in NUVALI website, public photo exhibits
• Using the images on brochures/flyers; web banners; calendar; Audio-Visual Presentations; as part of photo/press releases to promote NUVALI
• Cropping and re-sizing the image as necessary to fit pre-defined formats to promote the competition and to promote NUVALI
• Inclusion within any materials promoting the event or any exhibition of images from this event organized by NUVALI and to promote NUVALI
• Photographer gives NUVALI the right (exclusive or non-exclusive use? for how long?) to use submitted photos in various advertising and/or promotional materials to be developed by and for NUVALI.
• Photographer will be credited as the author of the photo/s on any and all occasions that photos are used.

7. In the event that photographers would like to use images taken, images should be:

• Used in a judicious and non-disparaging manner
• When using the photos, the location must always be identified in the photo as NUVALI, Laguna
• Images should not be used to represent competing real estate development properties and other companies directly and/or indirectly competitive to NUVALI

8. By participating in this contest, the photographer confirms that he/she has read and understood, and agree to abide by the Terms and Conditions of this photo contest.

See previous version of the mechanics here.

Nuvali / Ayala Land Photo Contest

Fellow photographers, if you are plaaning to join the Nuvali Dirt Weekend Photo Contest, it'll be good if you're aware of what you are entering into. Please read on...

Terms and Conditions:

1. A copy OF ALL photos taken during the NUVALI Dirt weekend Photographer's tour and photo contest shall be turned over to Ayala Land Inc. on October 10, 2009 in CD Format.

2. To participate in the photo contest, you are required to submit your photo entries (either raw or enhanced; minimum of 300 DPI resolution) by uploading it at the NUVALI website.

3. ALL PHOTOS SUBMITTED AND PHOTO CONTEST ENTRIES SHALL BECOME SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE PROPERTY OF AYALA LAND INC. AND MAY BE REPRODUCED AND/OR REPRINTED INTO ANY SIZE FOR EXHIBITION OR ANY OTHER PURPOSE WITHOUT SEEKING PERMISSION FROM THE OWNER NOR PAYING COMPENSATION FOR THE ACQUISITION OF SAID PHOTOS.

4. By participating in the NUVALI Dirt weekend Photographer's Tour and Photo contest, you agree that any image you submit may be used by NUVALI / AYALA Land Inc. for their marketing and promotional efforts of this event or future events and/or marketing and promotional requirements of NUVALI / AYALA Land Inc. These uses include but are not limited to the following:

• Displaying of images in NUVALI and / or Ayala Land Inc. website, public photo exhibits
• Using the images on Brochures/Flyers; web banners; calendar; Audio-Visual Presentations; as part of photo/press releases to promote NUVALI / and / or Ayala Land Inc.
• Cropping and re-sizing the images necessary to fit pre-defined formats to promote the competition and to promote NUVALI and / or Ayala Land Inc.
• Inclusion within any materials promoting the event or any exhibition of images from this event organized by NUVALI and / or Ayala Land Inc.
  

5. Ayala Land Inc. will have the exclusive right to use submitted photos in various advertising and / or promotional materials to be developed by and for NUVALI without the need to secure prior consent of the Photographer.

6. Photographer will be credited as the author of the photos/s on two occasions:

• If your photo/s is chosen to be showcased in the NUVALI and / or Ayala Land Inc. website.
• Should your photo be declared as a winning entry in the NUVALI Dirt weekend Photo Contest, a winner's print advertisement to be published in a publication
  

7. By participating in this contest, you confirm that you have read and understood, and agree to abide by the Terms and Conditions of this photo contest.

Note:
Terms and conditions is not 'officially' available online and was copied from the invites circulated via Facebook.

Thank to Ken Go for the heads up.

Related links:
Southern Reflections at DPP Forum
My Photo is on a Billboard, But...
Ayala Westgrove Heights Photography Contest

BF Gets it Done Photo Contest

It seem that some organizers of photo contests looks so lowly of photographers and perhaps looks at them as if they're a bunch of kids wanting some attention - only to win an unidentified gadget package and some limited edition pink urinal pen holders! Read the mechanics below and you be the judge..

Team Bayani Fernando invites all professional and amateur photographers to join the BF GETS IT DONE Photo Contest!

Simply capture a photo from anywhere in the Philippines where Chairman Bayani Fernando was able to improve the situation of that area to join.

Contest Mechanics:

1. Participants must log on & register at www.bayanifernando.com.ph to join.

2. Photos MUST be taken from any area of the Philippines where a Bayani Fernando/MMDA project has been or is being implemented.

3. Duration of contest is from May 12, 2009 – May June 12, 2009.

4. Deadline for submission of entries is June 12, 2009.

5. All entries must be submitted with a title and an explanation on how the photo embodies “BF Gets it Done!”

6. A participant may submit multiple entries.

7. All entries submitted shall be considered property of www.bayanifernando.com.ph and may be used for future Bayani Fernando projects/campaigns.

8. By joining the contest, the photograph, in its entirety, must be a single work of original material taken by the participants. The entrant acknowledges, and warrants that the submitted photograph is an original work created solely by the entrant, that the photograph does not infringe on the copyrights, trademarks, moral rights and/or rights of privacy/publicity or intellectual property rights of any person or entity, and that no other party has any right to claim or interest in the photograph.

9. Entry Specifications:
a. Photo entry must have the following characteristics:
i. 800x600 pixels, 72 Dpi, JPEG format.
b. The text must have the following characteristics:
i. Title: Max. 50 characters.
ii. Narrative: Max. 500 characters.
c. Filenames of entries for submission must be in the following format:
i. Filename format: last name.first name.date of submission in MMDDYY format (Ex. DelaCruz.Juan.050109)

10. Criteria for Judging:
25% - Relevance to theme
25% - Composition / Impact
25% - Technical Excellence
25% - Creativity
100% - TOTAL

Participants are granted:
1. The opportunity to compete for the gadget package grand prize donated by the friends of the Chairman!
2. To receive a limited edition MMDA Urinal penholder. (For Top 10 Entries.)
3. The right to have their name appear next to the photo, in the case of publication.
4. The chance to take part in any exhibition and have the photos published in a final photo book.

Tagalog and English are the official languages of the initiative in terms of rules and regulations.

Note: You need to register in order to read/download the contest mechanics.

Copyright? What Copyright?

Gloved and hunched over scanners, librarians from some of the biggest libraries in the world have spent the last five years digitising each and every page of millions of books — five million of them still under copyright.

They did it to democratise information, they said, to preserve the corpus of human knowledge for generations to come. They did it without permission from the copyright holders.

They did it for Google. Or, more specifically, for the Google Books Library Project, a virtual database containing the scanned pages of millions of the world's books.

Originally, back in 2004, the partnership between Google and America's great libraries was conceived to digitise the 15 per cent of library books that were in the public domain — golden oldies like Wuthering Heights and David Copperfield. In America (and Australia, thanks to the Fair Trade Agreement), a book enters the public domain 70 years after the author's death (in Australia it used to be 50), or if it was published prior to 1 January 1923.

That left 85 per cent of library books unscanned — 10 per cent of which are still in print and on bookstore shelves, and the remainder of which are "orphans" (books out of print but still in copyright). But because Google are uppity little nerds who consider the world as theirs to metatag, they decided to scan them all, regardless of legal status.

Arm-in-arm with librarians, Google declared they would have 15 million books digitised in under a decade. In other words, almost half of the 32 million books that humans have published.

Using the Elphel 323 — a digital camera that can scan 1000 pages per hour — librarians and Google began to scan the full texts of every book in five major university and public libraries: Stanford, Harvard, Oxford, the University of Michigan and the New York Public Library. Google archived the entire text of each book, indexing it to be responsive to search requests. Users got a few lines of text as their search result — a "snippet" — which Google claimed was "fair use", the same way a review might quote a few lines of a film or book.

Continue reading at newmatilda.com

Relevant links:
A Photo Editor

Victory Liner/ YKL Color-FujiFilm Photo Contest

Victory Liner/ YKL Color-FujiFilm Photo Contest
Submission of entries: February 1 to April 30, 2009

Please note the following:

• Organizers and sponsors will have exclusive use of winning entries no more than 2 years.
• Owners of the top 100 entries shall allow Victory Liner free use of the photos to publish or display without permission or payment of any kind for a maximum of 2 years. The photographer will be acknowledge every time the photo is used (item13).
  
• The photograph, in its entirety, must be a single work of original material taken by the participants. By entering the Contest, entrant represents, acknowledges, and warrants that the submitted photograph is an original work created solely by the entrant, that the photograph does not infringe on the copyrights, trademarks, moral rights and/or rights of privacy/publicity or intellectual property rights of any person or entity, and that no other party has any right, tittle, claim, or interest in the photograph.
• The photograph must not, in the sole and unfettered discretion of the Sponsor, contain obscene, provocative, defamatory, sexually explicit or otherwise objectionable and/or inappropriate content. Photographs that include sculptures, statues, paintings, and other works of art will be accepted as long as they do not constitute copyright infringement or fraud; provided entrants are prepared to provide a “release form.” When photographing the work of others, it must be as an object in its environment, and not a full-frame close-up of another person's art. All entries must not, and should not, have been entered into any other photo contest.
  

See mechanics here.

2009 FORMULA 1™ SingTel Singapore Grand Prix Online Photo Contest

2009 FORMULA 1™ SingTel Singapore Grand Prix Online Photo Contest TOC states:

All entries submitted for the Contest, including all photographs and images submitted, will be the sole property of the Organiser and will not be returned. - (No. 15)

16. The entire right, title and interest (including intellectual property rights) in and to your entry (whether or not prize winning) and all materials submitted with your entry, and in and to all works based upon, derived from, or incorporating your entry or any part thereof shall vest exclusively in SGP, its successors and assigns...SGP shall be entitled, without further reference to you, to exercise all intellectual property rights in your entry, including the use, adaptation, modification, reproduction, translation, exhibition, publication, display and archival of your entry or any part thereof in any context and with or without other material, in any medium now known or hereafter devised, whether or not for profit, for the full period of protection arising pursuant to the laws in force in any part of the world including all renewals reversions and extensions and to authorise others to do the same. In no event shall the Organiser be required to use any entry, whether in whole or in part. - (No. 16)

Its a bit confusing too, especially the last line of item 16.

Read 2009 FORMULA 1™ SingTel Singapore Grand Prix Online Photo Contest TOC here.

iClick Art Contest

iCenter Cebu, a local reseller of Apple Products, is organizing an Art Contest (Photography & Graphic Design) dubbed as iClick Art Contest. Just in case you're planning to join, please beware and take note of the following (under Copyright):

• Photos tendered are subject to Dreamtech exclusive right to use, without obligation to notify and/or explain reasons, including possible reproduction.
• In addition, all entrants to the contest grant (by their entry) an irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to Dreamtech and their licensees, to use, reproduce, edit, display, transmit, prepare derivative works of, modify, publish, and otherwise make use of the Entry in any and all media, whether now known or hereinafter created--throughout the world and for any purpose--without compensation to you of any kind.

The above-mentioned stipulations are earlier taken from iCenter's Multiply Site. However, contest mechanics was now unavailable and cannot be viewed publicly nor do they have a full public disclosure of the full mechanics. Please see more here.

Thanks to Paul Gotiong for the heads up.