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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 644540" data-attributes="member: 13090"><p>I got to (over?) thinking this and the more I did, the more questions I had...</p><p></p><p>For instance, what happens to all those images once the contest company monetizes them for as much as they think they can? Obviously the point of these contests is to make money, so the companies sponsoring these contests must be doing so knowing they can monetize a sufficient number of images well enough to recoup the costs of not only paying the "winners" but also the overhead incurred by running the contest itself. Beyond that the collected images would need to be stored and if they're stored they're backed up; assuming the contest company thinks they're still an asset, and that costs money. My overarching point, though, is that at some point these images are going to start <em>costing more money than they're worth</em>, no?</p><p></p><p>So now what? I suppose the obvious answer is the contest organizer deletes the images once they've outlived their usefulness. But DO they? Is that explicitly stated in the contract? I'm betting it's not. So am I over-thinking it when I wonder if those images could eventually find their way into the Public Domain; Where they would quite literally be up-for-grabs by anyone, for any purpose whatsoever, forever?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 644540, member: 13090"] I got to (over?) thinking this and the more I did, the more questions I had... For instance, what happens to all those images once the contest company monetizes them for as much as they think they can? Obviously the point of these contests is to make money, so the companies sponsoring these contests must be doing so knowing they can monetize a sufficient number of images well enough to recoup the costs of not only paying the "winners" but also the overhead incurred by running the contest itself. Beyond that the collected images would need to be stored and if they're stored they're backed up; assuming the contest company thinks they're still an asset, and that costs money. My overarching point, though, is that at some point these images are going to start [I]costing more money than they're worth[/I], no? So now what? I suppose the obvious answer is the contest organizer deletes the images once they've outlived their usefulness. But DO they? Is that explicitly stated in the contract? I'm betting it's not. So am I over-thinking it when I wonder if those images could eventually find their way into the Public Domain; Where they would quite literally be up-for-grabs by anyone, for any purpose whatsoever, forever? [/QUOTE]
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