Terms and Conditions – Fujifilm Student Awards 2009
1. The promoter is Fujifilm UK Limited, 56 Poland Street, London, W1F 7NN (“Promoter”).
2. Entry is open to all students aged 16 or over undertaking full or part-time professional photographic training, or full or part-time graphic design training of which photography is a major part at a UK based college or university. The competition is not open to employees of Fujifilm UK Limited or Penguin Books Limited, their families and relatives, and anyone else connected with this competition.
3. Entries are accepted from 1 September 2008. The closing date for the competition is 28 February 2009 and all entries must have been received by the Promoter in accordance with the entry process set out below. The Promoter accepts no responsibility for any entries that are incomplete, illegible, corrupted or fail to reach the Promoter by the closing date specified above for any reason. Proof of posting or sending is not proof of receipt. Entries via agents or third parties are not valid.
4. Entry into this competition is free of charge and the number of entries is unlimited.
5. To enter, entrants must submit an image of their photograph online at www.fujifilmstudentawards.co.uk (“Website”) on the basis of the brief and information set out on the Website (“Entry”). All photographs must be taken on Fujifilm Professional film. Images taken on digital cameras will not be accepted for judging. Images must be taken between 1 September 2008 and 28 February 2009.
6. Up to 30 Merit winners from all correctly completed entries will be selected by an independent judging panel to be chosen by Penguin Books Limited (“Panel”). Within 14 days of the Promoter notifying each Merit winner that their Entry is a winning Merit Entry, each Merit winner must submit a final print for judging on Fujifilm photographic paper, i.e. Fujicolor Crystal Archive paper, Fujifilm Multijet inkjet paper or Fujifilm Pictrography/Pictrostat paper without a mount or folder. Entries printed on any Black & White paper will be accepted. The maximum size for prints is A4. Please note that entries not presented as stated in the rules will be rejected.
7. Merit judging takes place in March 2009 and the final judging will be completed by April 2009. The decision of the judges is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
8. The person submitting the best individual Entry will be deemed the winner and will be awarded the title of Fujifilm Student Photographer of the Year 2009. Subject to prior approval by Penguin Books Limited, the winner may also have their photograph published on the front cover of the next edition of the Penguin Classic – ‘Silent Spring’ by Rachel Carson. The winner will also win £200 worth of Fujifilm Professional film and 25 Penguin Classics titles of their choice.
9. Each Merit winner will receive 10 rolls of Fujicolor PRO160S professional colour negative film in 35mm or 120mm, one Penguin Classic paperback book of their choice and a copy of the book, ‘The Language of Things’.
10. The winner and the Merit winners will be notified via email or post within 28 days after the Merit judging or final judging takes place, as the case may be. The winner and each Merit winner must claim their prize within 14 working days of the Promoter sending notification. If the prize is unclaimed after this time, it will lapse and the Promoter reserves the right to offer the unclaimed prize to a substitute winner selected in accordance with the promotion rules.
11. The college or university that submits the most entries will receive £250 worth of Fujifilm Professional film and 100 Penguin Classics titles for their library. The relevant college/university tutor will be allowed to choose their preferred type of film.
12. By entering this competition each entrant confirms that his/her Entry is their wholly-owned creation and to the extent that such Entry makes use of any third party materials that these have been fully cleared unless they are no longer protected by copyright or other intellectual property rights. Entrants will keep the Promoter and Penguin Books Limited harmless from any claims that the Entry infringes the personal or proprietary right of any other person.
13. Copyright remains the property of the photographer at all times but each entrant grants to the Promoter a non-exclusive, sub-licensable perpetual, royalty-free, world-wide licence to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, publish, distribute and display any Entry submitted as part of this competition in any media now known or hereafter invented. Each entrant acknowledges that the Promoter may sub-license the rights in an Entry to Penguin Books Limited for use as part of a book cover and in any related advertising, marketing or publicity materials. If you do not want to grant these rights, please do not enter this competition.
14. Prizes are not transferable.
15. If the quality of entries fall below the required standard, Fujifilm UK Limited and Penguin Books Limited reserve the right not to award a first prize or any merit winning prizes.
16. The winner and the Merit winners agree to take part in reasonable post event publicity and to the use of their names and photographs in such publicity.
17. By entering this competition each entrant agrees to be bound by these terms and conditions.
18. These terms are governed by the Laws of England and Wales.
