Quote Originally Posted by oliverw92 View Post
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/modding...-competition/1

Anyone else seen this? My main issue with this - they never asked to use my content (picture of my mod) in that video. That is breaking copyright laws right there.

The other issue - does anyone else see what Aquatuning are doing here? They are just getting someone to do hours of R&D for them for free and at the end of it they will have a case design that they can then mass produce and sell without having to pay any royalties to the original creator of the design.

Pretty dam sketch to me...
Aquatuning is here on this forum.

We've already discussed this contest.

There are prizes, while not large, you finally get a design you may have submitted to several manufacturers mass produced, and people get to buy your work.

copyright laws:
Varies from country to country, and yes they should have asked you but it was already on the internet for everyone for fair use anyway. They never claimed it was their own, and you never exactly claimed copyright for that work. You named that work, but you didn't claim that it was yours and yours only. You put pictures out that everyone could see. Since it was only part of your work(?) and it was used as an example for another event it would probably fall under terms of fair use.