Another Contest...

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...that can take your PB and do as they please. HarperCollins in conjunction with Johnson's baby products is running this one. (Scholastic runs a horrible similar one each year.)

Read the contest rules. The Grand Prize is only $1,000 plus publication and a few bonuses. No royalties. They can do as they please with the author's work.

By submitting a manuscript, you hereby grant the Sponsors, their parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, attorneys, representatives and agents, including advertising, promotion and fulfillment agencies the irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to use, reproduce, edit, market, store, distribute, have distributed, publicly and privately display, communicate, publicly and privately perform, transmit, have transmitted, create derivative works based upon, and promote the manuscript (as such may be edited and modified by the Sponsors in their discretion) for editorial, commercial, promotional and all other purposes, including posting on Sponsors’ websites. In addition, you hereby assign to the Sponsors all rights, titles, and interests that you may be deemed to have in any reproduction, product, or derivative work using or incorporating the manuscript.
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They can even change the ms. wording without any input from the author. So, it could end up not even being the winner's work.
 
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Wow that is not a good contest at all...What is with them these days? Them being the people holding these kind of contests. :p Thanks for sharing this Stormie. This is one I will pass on. ;)
 

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Yikes! I'm sorry to see these are continuing to appear. I saw this one recently from ING Direct.

http://www.adventuresinsaving.com/home.html

Here's some of the fine print about what you agree to give away with your manuscript for a measly $1000:

" Grand Prize winner grants ING DIRECT a perpetual, irrevocable, fully-paid, royalty-free, transferable, non-exclusive, world-wide right and license in and to his/her Story, with rights to sublicense, to use, copy, modify, reproduce, market, publish, distribute, sell and otherwise exploit for any purpose whatsoever, including without limitation, modifying the Story, copying the Story, improving the Story, making derivative works thereto, reproducing the Story and selling or otherwise distributing the Story.
 
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