CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION words in images 2024
1. By submitting work for this competition, the participants declare their acceptance of the conditions of participation listed below. Changes and exceptions to these conditions, in whole or in part, are not admissible.
2. Participation in this competition is free of charge: there is no entry fee.
3. Applications must be uploaded to the website www.wortimbild.at by the end of 16 th of May 2024.
4. The application procedure closes at 10 p.m (Central European Time) on that day.
5. Each applicant may submit only one work.
6. The works submitted must be created exclusively by means of photography (including photograms, photo-collage, scans, and similar methods).
7. Submissions by email will not be considered.
8. The application files uploaded must be in the following format:
1) JPEG file or PNG file
2) maximum of 9 MB file size.
9. The choice of winning entries will be anonymous and closed to the public, decisions are made by a jury, whose members are chosen by wortimbild.
10. The winners will be informed after the meeting of the jury.
All other participants will not be notified. You can view the results of the competition on www.wortimbild.at.
11. wortimbild will carry out the production of the works chosen by the jury for the subsequent exhibition.
12. The works produced in this way will remain the property of wortimbild and may be used by wortimbild for the purposes of exhibition.
13. No application submitted for this competition may infringe the moral rights, rights of authorship or any other rights of intellectual property of third parties.
By submitting an entry, the participants guarantee these rights, and are legally responsible for their protection.
14. By registering for this competition, the applicants consent to the registration and storage of the personal data submitted with the application. They hereby also consent to the publication of these data and of their submitted work, in the context of activities organised by wortimbild.
15. The participants grant to the organiser and its partners in the organisation of events a non-exclusive worldwide right of utilisation of their works in images and in text, in connection with the competition and the subsequent exhibition. The organiser and its partners or this event and their sponsors may publish and reproduce the works and texts submitted for this competition without fee. This includes (not exclusively):
– the presentation of winning works in the subsequent exhibition and other public exhibitions initiated by the organisers and their partners;
– all kinds of publication on the websites of the organisers and their partners, also in promotional material and other products related
to the competition (such as catalogues, book etc.) during the exhibition
and thereafter;
– transfer of these rights to the media for the purposes of publication
and dissemination within the framework of reports about the competition and the exhibition;
– these rights are concerned only with non-commercial usage of the
work. Should the possibility of commercial uses arise, the organisers will, of course, request the specific consent of the participants.
16. There is no legal right to the prize monies and the production of the work or its exhibition by wortimbild. wortimbild and its contractual partners are hereby excluded from any liability, as applied by law.
17. In the case of ambiguity or contradiction between the original german text and any translation there of into another language, the german text of these conditions will have precedence.
18. The conditions stated herein are binding to all partners.