Does ANYONE...... ANYONE on this site (or any other) ever.... EVER!!! Read the fine print!?!?!?
By submitting an entry, entrant grants the Sponsors and their designees an irrevocable, royalty-free, nonexclusive, worldwide perpetual license to use the entry and his/her name, city and state of residence for credit purposes in Sponsors' online galleries, without further compensation, notification or permission, unless prohibited by law. In addition, each winner grants to the Sponsors and their designees an irrevocable, royalty-free, nonexclusive, worldwide perpetual license to use and distribute the entry (as submitted, or as cropped by the Sponsors), and his/her name, city and state of residence for credit purposes, in any and all media now or hereafter known, including without limitation in Outdoor Photographer, Digital Photo and Digital Photo Pro magazines, for purposes of promotion of this Contest and other Sponsors' contests and/or for purposes of advertising and promoting the Sponsors and, except as otherwise stated herein, without further compensation, notification or permission, unless prohibited by law.
Most of the entries have NO HOPE IN HELL of winning anything. However, the contest sponsors DELIGHT in GRABBING the IRREVOCABLE, ROYALTY FREE WORLD WIDE PERPETUAL LICENSE to TAKE your image and do with, what they want for the very lucrative price of .... ZIPPO to you. Just send them your best images, they will love you for it.
Seriously, why do people continue to post this garbage!
DON'T PROMOTE
DON'T PARTICIPATE
DON'T GIVE CREDENCE to
these shameless COPYRIGHT GRABBERS.
READ THE FINE PRINT!!!!