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Legal question

If I submit an artwork for a competition run by a company, and I win, then they default on awarding me the prize but continue using my photograph to promote their company do I have the right to sue them for copyright infringement or ask for royalties, and if so how much?

Bill of rights?

If such a bill of rights were to be put in place (which I doubt) the unlawful interference with photographers and artists by police, security guards and others would not cease.
We already have the right to take photographs in public but this does not stop police and security guards from interfering with us, mostly claiming restrictions that are simply not there. For example, if a contable approaches you and says that a member of the public has complained, you reply that the correct police response should be that it is not against the law to use a camera in a public place and the police should have so advised the complainant. The officer will respond that when a complaint is made, they have a duty to investigate. This is rubbish. You are then told that you will be searched. You respond that you can only be searched if the officer has reasonable grounds for suspecting that you in in possession of drugs, offensive weapons or stolen property. The officer responds that you are being searched under the Terrorism Act as you (have now been escalated) are now a suspected terrorist. Bunkum, but.
You are asked for your name, address and date of birth. You decline, stating that under PACE s3 ss3 you are not obliged to give your name except if you are arrested for an offence. That offence must exist.
You are told that you are being arrested under the Terrorism Act.
At the police station, you are again asked for your details. You refuse. You are told that you will be detained in a police cell until you identify yourself. All this is unlawful behaviour by the officer. Make a complaint later and the Professional Standards Department will state that the officer was correct to be suspicious of you as you were defensive when he approached you. You were acting suspiciously by using a camera and refused to give your details. The Chief Constable would expect all his officers to act as this one did and the Chief Constable is certain that the public would too.