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“Why didn’t you enter the contest?” Alice badgered her twin sister. “Your work is
great and I am sure you would win,” she encouraged.
Alina nodded and revealed, “I don’t like the rules, so I won’t play the game.”
“Nonsense,” Alice scolded her sister.
“You think so?” her twin asked eyeballing her.
“But you would win?” Alice insisted.
“Really sister dearest, how can I win, but give up the rights to my own creation?”
Here.” Alina said to her sister. “This is a copy of their rules.”
Alice took the sheets of paper from her sister and read it. Then exclaimed in shock, “first prize is $1500.00, but they will use your design for one year without giving you credit or acknowledgment! But that’s. . .. that’s illegal!” Alice uttered.
“You don’t like the rules don’t play the game!” Her sister cautioned her.
Are we winners when we win but lose the rights to whatever we create?
Tag and thank the one who taught you how to play the game!
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