Contests & Artists' Rights

That's one of the situations where you'd contact a member of staff and talk about it. But you just did so here, so I'll publicly state that, for the type of contest you described, that's fine :) I'd still recommend that anyone else who runs such a contest message a member of staff about it, though. The usual way - go to a users userpage, hit that little "Report User" button and give us a link to the thread. We're looking at adding (hopefully) "Report this post" and "Report this thread" buttons (in appropriate places, a'course). But I can't give any deadline on that. With any luck we'll be able to add it here as well as in the re-code, but as it stands... Things are starting to get a tad messy and Noot Noot doesn't know if he'll be able to make it work on PFQ D: #additional information aww yee.

This is the right place to say I appreciate this, right? Because I do. This is much appreciated. I always put a signature on my art just in case.

While I never entered any art contests or knew there were some doing that, I'm glad to hear it's been taken care of and hopefully will end. And that idea of doing a report post sounds like a great idea, only drawback would be if the person who's having it reported deletes it beforehand. But I'm sure you guys will think of something ^_^

Once it's on the internet, it stays on the internet :P Alright ^^ Thanks for clearing that up.

Okay, I have a question because I have one of these and I know others who do as well! :o I have a contest that is kind of a weekly thing (you can see said contest here). I have a weekly question then prizes given out each week (sometimes I may extend it or end that week early if things pop up). Just wondering how these types of contests would work? Since it now states a contest can't be more than 30 days.

I'm kinda confused with this but don't know how to put it in a question. Garthic is it ok if I PM you? (I don't want it to be… public)

'Course you can Dogz. Tigris - that'd effectively be a weekly occurring contest, right? So each "contest" is less than 30 days in duration. That's fine~

Ahh, okay! Thanks for clarifying! :D

This is definitely something that I watch out for in art contests on other sites that I enter. My own art contests that I hold only ever state that I'm allowed to use the entries for personal use, but never the fact that I take all rights to the entries. It's seriously just pathetic when people take away the rights of others through contests.

(((chuckles at the nickname "Noot Noot"))) But, on a more serious note, I need some clarification.. Do art contests involving the contest-holders pokesona apply to the rule of a contest-holder not being able to keep all entries for themselves? I know this could get a bit messy as I know some peoples 'sonas could just be an Eevee or a shiny Umbreon with no real differences than ones seen around bulbapedia or something. But I have seen it be mentioned in pokesona (or any sona) contests that since that character was created by said person, all the entries were "theirs."