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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pe'rigin" data-source="post: 1253433" data-attributes="member: 48320">"The organisers reserve theworldwide, royalty-free right andlicence for the full period ofcopyright to publishCopyright is a minefield, BW are basically covering their extended publishing rights which is part of competition rules. They're limiting the amount of money they have to pay for this usage and eliminate any disputes with the artist. What I couldn't see is any third party copyright limitation, so for example if BP come along and ask to use the image for an advertising campaign and are willing to pay many ‘Ks’ for the privilege then as long as the accreditation is given to the competition, I can’t see any reason why the artist shouldn’t benefit.I expect that there would be further small print attached to the winning entries.As for Robert’s point about freebees, unfortunately we are in the age of ‘rip offs’. When you consider that you can copy an image/ideas off a computer, the coding off a website and pass it off as your own work (and still charge the client some serious money).</blockquote>