ReFocus Awards - Color Photography Contest 2025

By entering the Competition, you acknowledge that we may display your Entry on the Site or elsewhere, and, if we do so, we will include credit information acknowledging you as the photographer or artist. However, our accidental failure to properly credit your work will not be deemed a breach of these Terms of Use unless you notify us about the oversight, and we don’t correct the mistake within 10 days.

To allow us to administer and promote CRC, the Competitions and your Entry, you grant certain rights and licenses to us. For example, we may display, or authorize the display of, your Entry for any public relations activities to promote CRC and/or the Competition which include, but are not limited, displaying, or authorize the display of, your Entry on the Site or posting it on social media accounts or other websites or displaying your Entry in an exhibition or publishing it in a digital or physical book, whether such display is solely related to a Competition or not (collectively, “Permitted Displays”). As such, and for any purpose related to CRC, the Competitions or promotion of your Entry only, you grant us, our affiliates and our sponsors, and each of their and our successors and assigns, a worldwide, nonexclusive, irrevocable, perpetual, royalty-free, sublicensable license (the “Permitted Displays License”) to use, display, modify, publish, and distribute your Entry (in whole or in part) and to incorporate it into any of the Permitted Displays set forth in the preceding sentence. For the avoidance of doubt, (1) the Permitted Displays License is a license limited to Permitted Displays and does not grant us the right to use your Entry in any other way other than in a Permitted Display as set forth in this paragraph, and (2) we shall not be liable to you for any royalties resulting from or arising out of our promotion of the Competitions, including without limitation, any promotion of the Competitions or CRC that encompasses the incorporation of your Entry in a Permitted Display.

Additionally, after each Competition, we issue a press release including select Entries to unaffiliated third-party outlets (i.e., media outlets) in order to provide exposure for artists who enter our Competitions. Upon doing so, we will provide such third-party outlets with the Entry’s credit information so that they may properly attribute the image to the artist. Your trust in reFocus is of the utmost importance and we do not take issues regarding attributing your images lightly. Having said this, the failure of any third-party outlet to properly credit your work shall not be deemed a breach of these Terms of Use and we shall have no liability for such third-party’s failure; provided, however, we will use our commercially reasonable efforts to cause such third-party outlet to correct any mistakes that are brought to our attention in writing.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, you may request in writing that your work remain anonymous, and if you make such request or request that we delete your personal information pursuant to the Privacy Policy, your Entry will be credited to an anonymous artist when displayed by us on the Site or elsewhere. While we have the ability to delete the Entry and credit information from the Site, if a request is made to change the credit information after any press releases are distributed, we do not guaranty and shall not be liable for, any third-party outlet’s failure to delete an Entry or the artist’s credit information.

We do not receive any payment, fee or royalties for our delivery of Entries via press releases to third-party outlets, however, we do not guaranty any relationship between a third-party outlet and any other outlet that re-runs the third-party outlet’s story. You acknowledge and agree that you are solely liable for protecting your intellectual property rights in your work at all times.