I recently ranted about the Caltex Shooting Stars contest, but since Caltex has amended the contest rules and no longer claims ownership over submitted photographs, I’m backing down too. I’m still not endorsing the contest, but I have to concede that they don’t really look that poised to exploit naive photographers anymore.
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UPDATE 2008.05.20: It looks like Caltex has backed up a bit on what rights they have over the submitted entries. I’ve added a few notes below to highlight the changes in the contest rules.
I’m still not particularly impressed with the prizes or excited about joining, but I have to at least concede that [...]