Google is teaming up with Saatchi Gallery, London to offer student photographers around the globe a chance to showcase their work on the worldwide stage. If you are a student aged 18 years or older then this contest is for you. Pick from one of 10 categories and submit up to 8 of your best shots by January 31, 2012.
The 10 categories are:
Me
Food
Travel
Fashion
Action
Street
Sport
Night
Sound/Silence
Point of View
For some unmentioned (probablt legal) reasons, students from the following countries are not eligible: Brazil, Quebec, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Syria, North Korea, Sudan, Libya, Liberia, Zimbabwe, or Myanmar (Burma).
Here are the relevant rules governing copyrights:
11. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS.
As between you and Sponsor, each entrant shall retain ownership of all intellectual property rights in the entry (including moral rights) subject to these Official Rules. However, by entering the Competition, and to the extent allowed by law, entrant grants, but solely in relation to the promotion and/or advertising of the Google Photography Prize or Google+ service only, to Saatchi Gallery, London, Google and Google’s affiliates, licensees, promotional partners, developers and third party marketing entities (“Permitted Users”) a non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free license to modify, rearrange, copy, reproduce and adapt the images only to fit the format required for product web pages and marketing materials, and to publish and use the Photographs themselves and the content of and elements embodied in the Photographs, including any names, locations and likenesses, for the duration of the rights, in any and all media, including but not limited to digital and electronic media, computer, and audiovisual media (whether now existing or hereafter devised), in any language, throughout the world, and in any manner without further review, notice, approval, consideration, or compensation. Google will not commercially exploit the Photographs and all such rights of commercial exploitation remain with entrants.
Enter the Google Photo Contest.