Paris in the Winter: Win a Trip for Two to Paris!

Parisian Walkways: A daytime shot of the Eiffel Tower

How would you like to win two return tickets on the Eurostar* between London and Paris? Well, if you work in the creative industries in the United Kingdom then Polylooks is offering that chance.

If you work in public relations, advertising, design, or online and offline publishing, you will most likely have used a stock image service to buy royalty free and rights managed photography or illustrations. But are you aware of how freely you can use those stock images once you have paid for them? We’d love to know your views, so please fill in our microstock survey, which shouldn’t take more than a minute, and leave your email to enter our prize draw for the chance to win two return Eurostar tickets to Paris.

While stock images are great to use, they do come with restrictions. Using Paris as an example, did you know that there are no restrictions on using photos of the Eiffel Tower by day but by night, when illuminated, the structure is subject to copyright laws? This is not uncommon among public buildings. Sites such as Polylooks have to check that their stock image contributors have the right to use images before they host them for sale online. This ensures that when you buy photos online you have every right to use them.

In fact, Polylooks has 810 stock photos of Paris available for sale, but if you win the competition you’ll be able to take plenty of your own! Good luck!

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*dates and time of travel subject to availability