Copyrights are owned by the designers for their respective designs until they transfer the rights to the contest holder. Whenever a contest holder declares a designer as a winner for a contest, the copyright and ownership to that winning design are transferred over to the contest holder. All the exchange of files and transfer of copyrights and ownership happen during the Design Handover stage. Contest holders can always print the Design Transfer Agreement for their records or access it at any time through your Design Handover page.