The New Yorker magazine has a weekly "Caption Contest", where they show a cartoon and invite people to submit captions.

(Not sure what the prize is, besides the honor and glory of winning. Maybe a signed copy of the cartoon with the winning caption.)

It specifically excludes the Quebecoise from entering.

The point being, I am fairly sure that the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest is not ripping people off. Rather, their counsel thought that there is no conceivable upside in letting Quebecoise participate, since it might run afoul of something or another. Why voluntarily subject oneself to unknown/unknowable legal liability, or the hassle of dotting every i and crossing every t, when you can choose not to.

I do not find this exclusion in the online rules:

http://www.newyorker.com/about/caption-contest-rules

The New Yorker has apparently updated its rules recently. I found a blog posting from mid-2015, which analyzed the winner captions and included the fine print:


https://webcache.googleusercontent.c...&ct=clnk&gl=us


Each week, we provide a cartoon in need of a caption. You, the reader, submit your caption below, we choose three finalists, and you vote for your favorite… Any resident of the United States, Canada (except Quebec), Australia, the United Kingdom, or the Republic of Ireland age eighteen or older can enter or vote.

Edit: The current rules do not mention any geographic restrictions at all. Anyone over 13 who is not an employee/family member/etc. can participate.

Does the New Yorker even publish a French language version?