However… I’d keep the EOS 1Ds MkII! :)

You beat me to the comment I was going to make - Of course I carefully checked their Terms and Conditions, to make sure it didn’t breach my own be careful what you sign advice :-)

For everybody else: the rules to this competition are perfectly safe, and are not photographer unfriendly. Specifically:

8) By submitting a photograph to this contest, the photographer confirms that he/she is the creator of the photograph, and is in legal possession of its copyrights. The photographer retains the copyright of the photograph.

11) By submitting a photograph to this contest, the photographer grants Crestock the rights to freely publish said image online or in other media in relation to the contest, without remuneration.

12) Photos submitted for the contest will not be entered into our image collection or re-sold in any way.

(emphasis mine)

So basically, you keep the copyright, they reserve the right to use your photos in connection with the contest (which is fair enough, because otherwise they couldn’t even show them on their website), and they promise not to sell the photos on or do other nasty things with them.

I do laud you though, Andrew, for checking this — if all photographers took a close look at the TnC’s, we’d have a lot less problems!

- Haje

The fact that there’s two conflicting policies is still kind of worrying to me though.

“By uploading Content to http://www.crestock.com, the Supplier admits a non-exclusive licence to display the uploaded Content on Crestock’s homepage (www.crestock.com). Furthermore this allows Crestock to sub-licence the uploaded image to Crestock’s customers for potential download. This in accordance with the terms of the Crestock Content Licence Agreement, a copy of which you have read, and acknowledge understanding and agreeing to.”

http://www.crestock.com/popups/terms.aspx

Be careful what you sign, indeed! :P