Quote Originally Posted by Aquatuning View Post
Hi Guys,

Let me step in to clear this one up for you before the trolls get let out again

Ok so the competition as it has been stated many times we are not trying to get something designed for free, we already have a range of cases on the way that have been designed in house.

The idea of the comp is to finally give the community a say so the community designs it, the community votes for it and we build it now of course we will make a profit on the units sold by this is to cover setup, production, staffing.

If you rather we can let you design the case and pay for all the tooling etc - bet you not a fan of that idea.

So the winner gets a case, they get to name the case and they get watercooling in the case. Based on the small qtys that will be made because of the very niche designs the prizes given will far out way any royalties of sales.

We dont have to do this for you but as people are constantly crying out for something like this to happen we thought we would give it a go.

So if you want to have a go like many others have and are enjoying please enter. If you DO NOT agree with the comp JUST DONT ENTER as after all you would not want to fuel the mythical watercooling devils that you have heard all those naughty stories about of the everso factual place called the interwebs

As for Oliver as you have had it explained to you the video was created by Bit-tech so it is nothing to do with Aquatuninging or Bit-tech and as you also know you gave Bit-tech free reign with your work by posting on the forum. You have been contacted by Bit-tech take it up with them.

For any more serious questions about the contests I will be here to help
Based on your company's trademark smash and grab shenanigans, it's not surprising people are wary that you're trying to use the modding community to design you a case. Cases designed to hold watercooling internally may be niche, but companies such as corsair, mountain mods and danger den are no doubt making profit on their water-cooling cases, as I'm sure you will.

Did Corsair design the 800 case thinking the profits they made from it would be less than the cost of making a case and putting some watercooling in it? Really?! Out of interest, does your new range of cases that you mention include cases that also fit the water-cooling design brief you've set out for this competition?

Call me cynical, but the fact you've stipulated a design brief and insisted "the case must be easy to produce" doesn't sound like you're trying to help a modders design come to be, it sounds like you are looking for a cheap means of getting a design to mass produce.

And as for saying:

If you rather we can let you design the case and pay for all the tooling etc - bet you not a fan of that idea.
....The competition is in the modding section of bit-tech. I'm sure most people reading that section of the forum are actually pretty big fans of that idea.

It doesn't sound very much like you're doing this out of the kindness of your hearts to help the modding community when you then also tell Oliver that bit-tech has the rights to any images he's posted there, and so you're free to use them. No apology, no "sorry, someone should have asked you, can we use your images?"? Not great PR...

Under UK law as I understand it, the copyright images automatically reside with the creator of the featured piece, and whoever took the photos, if taking the photos itself involves some creative/artistic/technical merit. Bit-tech doesn't have a terms and conditions page stipulating that they own the copyright to any content posted as certain sites like facebook do.

So no, you (and Bit-tech, your hosting partner in this competition) don't have the right to use his images as far as I can see.