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It stated: ?It seems to me that it amounts to little more than a rights grab, a means for Blackpool to acquire imagery for perpetual free use, regardless of its origin or copy ownership and without credit to its originator.?<\/p>\n<p>Blackpool Council PR manager Barbara Aird told AP that the competition was aimed at holidaymakers.<\/p>\n<p>She admitted that the contest would give the council a ?fresh set of images? for possible future use in tourism brochures.<\/p>\n<p>But she defended the use of pictures, justifying future publication by saying that amateurs? pictures are increasingly used on TV news programmes and as the backdrop to weather forecasts.<\/p>\n<p>Aird believes this is an indication of how the use of images has changed.<\/p>\n<p>She pointed out that the council would not be making any money from the photos, as it does not have a ?commercial arm?. <\/p>\n<p>In her reply to Myk, Aird wrote: ?Whilst we understand that copyrighting and licensing of images is a serious issue for photographers we would hope many aspiring amateurs would use this competition as a chance to get themselves noticed and earn some free publicity?.?<\/p>\n<p>She claimed: ?Crucially, we are hardly stealing the entire creative abilities from any entrant with just one photo.?<\/p>\n<p>The competition closes on 31 October. 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