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From: "Michel Adam" <
Subject: Photo Life Magazine contest: Is it a scam ?
>
> Has it come down to that even apparently reputable magazines
are charging an entry
> fee, like all the scam photo publications outfit we hear
about?
>
Photo life is reputable? They are pretty much the bottom feeders
of the photopublications, IMHO.
> And to top it all, the government of Canada, via it's
information office, reserves the right
> to use your submitted photo on one of their web site! (Rule 10
of the contest).
Wrong, Photo Life has sold rights to the entries to the
Government of Canada. This allows them to make money on all
fronts. Pretty scummy, but if you want to enter the contest,
they do get to make the rules. You can choose to enter and abide
by them, or not enter. I wouldn't enter it, myself
>
> I don't normally pay attention to contests, since they usually
exclude non-residents of
> whichever country (usually the U.S.) the magazine is published
from, but this one, being
> 'local', so to speak, caught my eye. And they even made the
contest international in nature!
>
> Is this fee thing an aberration or standard practice nowadays
?
Contests used to be about increasing circulation by getting
people involved, and hanging a carrot in front of them. The
times seem to be changing, unfortunately.
>
> And what does it say about all the sponsors/prize providers
(Kodak is one of them...) ?
> I don't see how that would help the Canada Information Office
to have pictures of Penguin
> for winner in the Nature category (but then again, what are we
to expect from bureaucrats,
> business smarts ?).
I doubt if the sponsors were aware of the entry rules prior to
the contest. If you want to hurt Photo life on this one, I would
send real, on paper, in envelopes, with a stamp on them,
complaints to the sponsors. My opinion, they deserve to get
their pee-pee whacked.
William Robb
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