Editorial

Staff · Issue 81, Nov/Dec 2014 · pp. 4

Editorial Rights grab competitions I really had thought that rights grab competitions - where the organisers can use the entries for whatever purpose they see fit for an infinite period of time - had been flushed out but unfortunately not. ‘Guylian Seahorses of the World’ is a Belgian underwater photo competition and the deadline for entries is November 11th 2014. Hopefully you are reading this after November 11th and did not enter the competition. If, unfortunately, you did you have just given the organisers carte blanche to do with your images as they please for as long as they want. The press release they send out is friendly enough and there’s even €750 of dive gear to be won but if you go into a little bit more detail it starts to get photographically sinister. To be fair the organisers are reasonably open about their intentions. They say “The contest helps with our seahorse researc…