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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Harold Stiver" data-source="post: 1255067" data-attributes="member: 28018">In many of these "contests" the photographer no longer has rights over the image as he gives up all rights (I don't know about the one's mentioned)These are nothing more than sleazy harvesting schemes to gather the rights to images at minimal cost.There are websites that do this as well, I recall a website about hummingbirds that was trying this (and was posting invitations on this site).If these people are legitimate, they will want to be able to publish the entries, that is no problem. There is no reason that can't be met by a user agreement rather than trying to rip off the copyright.Read the guidelines, if they want all rights, please boycott them and stop this scummy practice.</blockquote>