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displayed by permission in accordance with competition entry rules. Sponsor
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or individuals. NO text, graphic, photo, video, or other media
may be used for any purpose, copied, linked to, or
downloaded without specific permission of the copyright owner.
Press Releases may be freely
copied and distributed as published.
Website operators may copy and display the Underwater
Images logo on their site ONLY if it links to the home page
at UWimages.org. NO other images or graphics may be linked
without express written permission. We do welcome text links
to the UWimages.org home page, but request that links not be
made to pages other than the home page. We do not respond to
link exchange requests other than those of our sponsors,
charitable beneficiaries, and/or entrants.
Entrant Photographs and Videos
Copyright ownership of all photographs and videos on this
website submitted as entries to the competition are that of
the entrants and used with temporary permission granted by the
competition entry rules. The competition does not have
authority to allow or authorize use for any purpose than those
included in the rules. Photos may not be copied, downloaded,
directly linked to, or used for any purpose without direct
written consent of the copyright owners. Please report any
copyright infringement to the competition director and/or
copyright owner. If you would like to contact the photograph
owner about commercial or non-commercial use, the competition Director may be able to provide contact
information to the copyright owner on request.
Notice to Entrants
Competition Organizers reserve the right to publish the
winning entries and finalists in publications relating to the photo competition
and it's promotion
(including but not limited to this web site, contest mailers, email newsletters, dive, photography,
or travel magazines, or similar publications, YouTube, entrant
evaluation video, etc.), and use in promotional materials for
future year contests held by Organizer for a period of up to 4 years from the contest
awards (unless authorized otherwise by entrant). In submitting entries,
photographers grant permission for these purposes as a condition of entry.
Underwater Images WILL NOT sell, redistribute, or offer
entered photos for any commercial purpose other than promotion
of the competition or furtherance of the charitable causes of
the competition without express permission of the
entrant/copyright owner.
The competition respects the entrants copyrights, and will
try to honor reasonable requests for copyright protection. Photographers may
optionally submit
their own Digimarc® watermark protected scans or digital images for display on
this web site or as digital entries. Please contact
webmaster
@uwimages.org for sizes,
resolutions, and specifications needed. Third party inquiries about fair use of
photos will be forwarded to the entrant when possible.
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