Gordon
Thanks for the link; however, as right as you are in your thinking and as honourable the intention, there is no competing with ego and the thirst for recognition - at any price - that a competition might allow.
I despair of people who enter these things, as I do of those who send their photographic souls to penny stock companies. It is exactly the same thing - ego. It is a shame, but as long as it´s legal it will happen.
Rob C
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Rob, maybe I'm a sucker for lost causes!
I think it's worth fighting this for the long term. The campaign mentioned above will go on and on naming and shaming, and I feel that when people understand that they are actually being ripped off by most competitions the tide will start to turn. It's all about education.
Most people people don't like to think they are being taken advantage of and if they understood what was actually going on, then those people would not enter the competition.
However, as you say, there may be some people who will do anything to see their name in print, even if it's means losing the right forever to sell their image, they are definitely lost causes!
But maybe there's a lot less people like that that we think? Is it not down to educating people the value of the rights and how to use them?
Gordon
