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THE GOLDEN RULE.
You must be at least 18 years of age or older, or the minimum required age in your community to view this Website or any adult oriented websites. Any winner later found to be under this age limit will be disqualified and subject to the forfeit of their submission fees.

PRIMARY RULES and REGULATIONS.
Entries to this website will not be returned, so please, do not submit original artworks. A maximum of five images may be submitted, any one of them, or all may be chosen for publication. We are not responsible for art or entries that get lost in the mail or sent by email. Entries must be uploaded as .jpg or .gif files through our website; we expect artwork to be submitted in the color of which the original artwork was intended to be shown. If the artwork is in black and white, we will assume this is how you intended it to be reproduced. If you are not familiar with these terms or do not have a file of your work, more can be learned at any high quality copy center or art service bureau, where this digital translation can be done.  Please submit all images to be uploaded on-line in low resolution, suitable for easy viewing and email use.

COPYRIGHTS.
All entrants shall be in possession of copyrights of the submitted artwork, or have permission of the copyright holders and have no legal objection to 'Erotic Signature LLC' publishing the selected image in "The World's Greatest Erotic Art of Today" book. Erotic Signature, LLC is not responsible for false copyright claims. No other rights, print, electronic or other are granted to 'Erotic Signature' however we may wish to use selected images in the promotion of the book only.

WINNERS NOTIFICATION.
The 200 winners will be notified first by email, and at that point we will request all winners to upload their high-resolution via our website for printing and publication purposes. If the higher resolution images are not received by the deadline outlined in your winners' email notification, we will unfortunately be unable to include your work in the book. All winners will be required to complete and signed a short application form to confirm their copyrights ownership and/or permissions to print their artworks in "The World's Greatest Erotic Art of Today" book.

RESTRICTIONS ON POSTING POLICIES.
We have set very few parameters in this area, we want to encourage art expressing every sexuality and subject matter, heterosexual, gay and lesbian, transsexual, fetish and alternative lifestyles. However, the following artwork will not be accepted:

1. All work outside of the boundaries of consensual sexuality.
2. Any works that include references to minors or animals, or violence.
3. Photos that are corrupted, grossly oversized
4. Uploaded images should in the following format:
   • .jpg or .gif format;
   • Max 900 pixels on either side at 72dpi;
   • Less than 750kb
5. Images or artwork with any information included or embedded overtly large in them, including but not limited to artist names, nicknames, e-mail addresses, web addresses or telephone numbers.

1. Erotic fine art
All artworks in this category must have been produced by hand. Any medium or technique on the subject is acceptable. The art may range from realistic to cartoon.  However, no computer enhanced imagery, if detected, will be accepted (Please use 'Mixed Media' category for any fine art work that is digitally enhanced).
2. Erotic digital art
includes artworks produced only by computer and digital means.  If your digital artwork is photographic based; meaning if you use a camera or video recorder to capture any image(s) used within your artwork, please use the 'Mixed Media' category.
3. Erotic photography
involves artworks attained by the means of a digital or traditional film camera without any changes to the original image. We will NOT accept photographs that have been digitally enhanced for this category.  Please use the 'Mixed Media' category.
4. Erotic sculpture
Any three dimensional (3-D) artwork piece of any size that is tangible will be accepted in this category.

5. Mixed Media - Any artwork produced with a combination of any or all of the above categories.

All artwork must stay within the scope of the above categories, and artist must specify the category for each submitted artwork in the competition.

DEADLINE OF ENTRIES.
Entries can be done via both our website on-line application system and by mail. Mail-in entries must include payment, signed application forms, and sent to:

All entries must be submitted and received in our office by no later than February 15, 2009.
Winners will be notified by February 22nd, and announced on or by February 28, 2009.