Hello everyone,

We’re running a $200 logo design contest for a games website and looking for a great logo design. Check out the website theme to get idea of what it should be through this link: http://goo.gl/knzLy

Requirements:

1. The logo design must be your original work and shall not be copied from elsewhere.

2. Copyrighted or trademarked images may not be used in the logo design.

3. Any logo design submitted after the submission date will not be entered into the competition.

4. In order to submit your logo, you must connect to Wishfree.com via Facecbook.

5. Any entry which shall not be able to gain votes shall be disqualified.

6. Only one submission per user is allowed.

7. Submissions using fake accounts will automatically disqualify.

8. Top 5 voted logos will be reviewed by our management and the winner will be announced on 15-07-2012.

9. We the right to announce the winner of the competition without any declaration to the participants.

10. We will contact the winners by email to ask them for their account and other details for verification purposes. The winners will be guided through these emails for further steps.

11. By entering into the contest you hereby transfer and assign all intellectual property rights (including, but not limited to, copyright and trademark) in and to the drawing and description, to Wishfree.com.

12. By entering in the contest you also agree to abide by the above rules and grant us the right to edit, publish, display, promote, broadcast and otherwise use your entry, along with the your name without further permission, notice, or compensation, in any media now known, or hereafter developed.

13. The final logo design selected becomes our property and may be used for any purpose determined by us.

Wow, you get the copyright and trademark to all images that are entered, even if they lose?

Great deal for you, particularly if you want to acquire the rights to a whole bunch of logos for a mere $200.

I should try this. I could then sell the losing logos to whomever I wanted without ever paying the entrants. Sweet idea.

Another opportunity lost because the sponser insists on using Facebook. A LOT of us refuse to use Facebook. You might consider that next time. I'm already pissed off at Amazon because all their contests run through Facebook. It's sheer effrontery andf dictatorialism to force people to join Facebook if the want to participate.

I'd love to enter but there is no way in hell I'd hand over all rights to my work unless it was paid for. At least as far as the rules above are concerned.

So if nobody wins [which will likely be the case] they can still use any entry because they wrote the rules to basically allow them to do that.

It's no wonder the entries are lacking.

However, the rules on that actual page state: The copyright of all slogans will remain with their creators. However, the creator of the winning slogan and the runners-up grant worldwide royalty-free perpetual rights to WishFree.com to use their slogans in any desired way.

Which I'm not sure even applies as a Logo is not a Slogan and they aren't interchangeable terms.

And there is no deadline... is the contest running forever?