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> I'm not familiar with submitting artwork for someone else's book. So, I 
> don't know if it is common practice to ask the author of some artwork to 
> pay for inclusion of his work in a book. I always thought *I'd* get paid 
> royalties if someone wanted to use my work... But all things being equal, 
> it's crying out "scam" to me. I don't have anything that's even remotely 
> worthy of being published, but I wouldn't pay for it if I had.

I think that they just want to keep out as much joke/subpar/noise entries as 
possible. Renderosity has a huge following and this contest covers a lot of 
ground, from digital photography to 3D. It could become swamped in thousands 
of totally useless pictures (family pics, "my first rendering", goatse, 
class assignments etc.). Putting a minimal entry fee is probably the only 
way to make sure that the entrants are serious about the contest, i.e. that 
they actually believe that their work belong to such a book.

G.

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This reminds me of the time my sister's school entered one of her poems into
some other contest.  Turned out she got it selected to be printed in a book.
What I found suspicious off the bat was not only did she get no royalties,
not a cent... but they wanted to charge her 80$ for the book.

Of course she thought herself ontop of the world, and so my parents pooled
the cash in and ordered the book.  And then, we discover that 98% of the
stuff in there was a damn joke.  We are talking newbie-ish of the newbie
stuff.  Hell, most these writers could not even get proper grammer
foundations down.

There is a sucker born every minute.  And many waiting to capitalize on
them.

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"Bryan Valencia" <pov### [at] spamgourmetcom> wrote:
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http://www.renderosity.com/index.ez?viewLink=514&AID=90&Form.sess_id=32004398&Form.sess_key=1110577892
>
> Sure, there's an entry fee.  But let's see how many of us can get a POV
> image in the book!

At the very least, their copyright policy:
   http://www.renderosity.com/index.ez?viewLink=328

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