The Curry's Our Lives competition solicits stills photos and also videos up to 2 minutes duration, and appears to be co-sponsored by National Panasonic and The Guardian.

According to the Terms & Conditions by submitting material:

3. You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free licence to publish or otherwise use the Material in any way, for any purpose and at any time we want;
4. Selected photographs and video Material will be published at the discretion of the editor and you will not be paid, even if your submission(s) is (are) published;
5. We may cut, edit, crop or arrange your photograph(s) or video as we think fit;
6. We may remove your photograph(s) or videos from the “Our Lives” website at any time;
7. Your name will be published alongside your photograph(s) or video(s), but we may edit or delete any comments which you submit along with your photograph(s) or video(s) should we deem them as not suitable for publication;
8. Publication of any text you submit to us will be at the sole discretion of the editor and we reserve the right to make additions or deletions to the text prior to publication, or to refuse publication;
9. You warrant that the Material you submit is not obscene, offensive or defamatory of any person or otherwise illegal;
10. You agree not to submit Material on “Our Lives” which is deliberately intended to upset other users;
11. You acknowledge that any breach of these warranties may cause us damage or loss and you agree to indemnify us in full and permanently against any third party liabilities, claims, costs, loss or damage we incur as a result of publishing Material you submit to us, including consequential losses;

IMPORTANT: You or the owner of the photograph(s) / video(s) still own the copyright in the photograph(s) / video(s) sent to us and are free to republish the photograph(s) / videos(s)wherever you or the owner wish and in whatever medium you or the owner want.

Organisers are clearly getting twitchy about the impression of grasping opportunism surrounding copyright grabs, since reassuring declarations like the last paragraph are becoming more common.

However it would be more impressive if they stopped trying to take advantage rather than relying on spin. The fact is, this competition - whilst not quite taking copyright away from the photographer - still awards usage rights that are equivalent to copyright for Currys' purposes. 'Any way, any time, for any purpose' is still grasping opportunism, awarding themselves a huge commercially-exploitable photographic asset in return for the chance to win a camcorder of a fraction of the commercial value of the winning photos alone, let alone the other entries. It's bizarre that this flaunting of deliberate unfairness toward photographers strikes so many corporates as good PR.