Agriculture related photo contest

[AgrowKnowledge]

Posted with Mods permission.

AgrowKnowledge Photo Contest
"The Future of Agriculture"

The purpose of this photo contest is to select 12 photos that will be featured in our 2009 AgrowKnowledge calendar. The photos will also provide educators and students with a wide range of photography free of charge that otherwise may not be readily available for use. These images will be available through the AgrowKnowledge website (free registration required to access images) and allow photographers to showcase their work. The topic for the photo contest is “The Future of Agriculture ” Participants can to submit up to ten photos illustrating what they think best represents “The Future of Agriculture."


The top 12 photos will be selected to appear in the AgrowKnowledge 2009 calendar. The top 12 photo winners will also receive a prize of $50 (fifty) dollars. Honorable mention photos will appear on the calendar as smaller images with credit given.

Read more about it here:
http://www.agrowknow.org/photo/

AgrowKnowledge, the National Center for Agriscience and Technology Education understands the increasing demand for high-tech careers in areas such as precision agriculture, biotechnology, alternative energy production, natural resource management, and nutritious food production for a hungry world. As a result, AgrowKnowledge partners prepare students for the workforce, ready to use emerging technology in agriculture, food, and natural resources.

[blackshadow]

I see two major issues with this "contest".

1 - It requires photos to be issued under the Creative Commons license - once you have put work out under CC it cannot be revoked and can cause issues for photographers if they wish to license their images in the future. (EG granting an exclusive license or with stock sales)

2 - By entering this "contest" you are granting the organisers an unlimited license.

By entering the contests, photographers are agreeing that their photos be displayed and licensed for use under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons 3.0 license, and grant AgrowKnowledge permission to use the photo(s) in future newsletters, brochures, advertisements, on the AgrowKnowledge website, or in any other media. Upon submitting your photo(s) to AgrowKnowledge, your photo(s) will be available for public viewing and critique. AgrowKnowledge is building a resource of photos to provide free of charge for use by faculty, staff, students and others registered AgrowKnowledge users to share what the face of agriculture is becoming.

[NickSimcheck]

Thanks for pointing out those very important details blackshadow.

(Seems like most people don't know the bike ever existed, so I never thought anybody else would use that name, I guess I was wrong! That's my xBox live login but with 2 V's to make a W.)

[blackshadow]

Thanks for pointing out those very important details blackshadow.

(Seems like most people don't know the bike ever existed, so I never thought anybody else would use that name, I guess I was wrong! That's my xBox live login but with 2 V's to make a W.)

I'm sure anyone who has ever read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is aware of the Vincent Black Shadow.