Received a forwarded email about this contest to feature a travel shot on the cover of CITY magazine (NYC). I make sure to read the fine print on contests – you should too! Check out this travesty:

“Any photograph entered in this Competition shall remain the exclusive property of CITY Magazine and entrant agrees that CITY and its designees shall have the perpetual, worldwide right to edit, publish, and use the photograph in any way and in any media for trade, advertising, promotional, and/or other purposes as CITY may determine in its sole discretion without further consideration to entrant or winner.”

Can you believe that! Great way (for them) of collecting a lot of free of charge travel stock imagery – that they will own all rights to just because it was sent for consideration! This is horrible and they should know it.

Charles Peterson