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BAGNC YouTube Contest – IMPORTANT

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The John A. Hartford Foundation and AAN reserve the right to alter the Contest at any time.

Rights granted to the Sponsors
By entering the Contest, you agree and irrevocably grant to Sponsor, AAN, and their affiliates and their respective assigns, agents and licensees (collectively, the "Sponsor Parties"), the unconditional, royalty-free right and license to reproduce, encode, store, copy, transmit, publish, post, broadcast, display, publicly perform, adapt, edit, exhibit, create derivative works and otherwise use or reuse your Video Submission, throughout the world, in perpetuity, in any media, including, without limitation, the Internet.

Except where prohibited, by entering the Contest you also irrevocably agree that the Sponsor Parties may use your name, likeness, voice, photograph and any statements regarding your video submission and participation in the Contest (collectively, “Your Likeness”) throughout the world, in perpetuity, in any media, without limitation or compensation to you.  By entering the Contest, you permanently waive all intellectual property rights, privacy/publicity rights and other legal or moral rights that might preclude the Sponsor Parties’ use of your video submission and Your Likeness, and you agree not to sue or assert any claim against the Sponsor Parties (or any of them) relating to their use of your video submission or Your Likeness.

Copyright Requirements
Your video must be your own original work and property and may not contain any commercial copyrighted music or images.  By entering the Contest, you represent and warrant to the Sponsor Parties that:
(a) your video submission is your original work and that you own all rights, including copyright rights, in your video submission;
(b) your video submission does not infringe the intellectual property, privacy or publicity rights or any other legal or moral rights of any third party;
(c) your video submission has not been entered in or won previous contests or awards;
(d) your video submission has not been published or previously distributed in any media;
(e) your video submission does not contain any defamatory, libelous, indecent or obscene material; and
(f) you have obtained permission from each person whose name, image, likeness or voice (collectively, “Likeness”) is included in your video submission,all such persons have granted you all necessary rights to use their Likeness as described in these Official Rules, and you can make written copies of such permissions available to the Sponsor upon request.  (If the Likeness of a minor is included in your video submission, such grant of rights must include a written permission from the minor’s parent or legal guardian authorizing the use of the minor’s Likeness).

General Conditions/Release
By entering the Contest, participants (a) release the Sponsor Parties from any and all liability for any claims, costs, injuries, losses or damages of any kind caused by their participation, including the unauthorized or illegal access to personally identifiable or sensitive information or the acceptance, possession, use, or misuse of a prize; and (b) acknowledge that said parties have neither made nor are in any manner responsible or  liable for any warranty, representation, or guarantee, expressed or implied, in fact or in law, relative to the prizes including, but not limited to, their quality or availability, or suitability. The Sponsor Parties will not be responsible for typographical, printing, or other inadvertent errors in these Official Rules or other materials or announcements relating to the Contest, or for incorrect or inaccurate transcription of entry information, or for any human or other error, technical malfunctions, lost/delayed data or voice transmission, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, line failures of any telephone network, computer equipment, software, inability to access any on-line service or Website, or to complete a telephone call or facsimile transaction, or any other error or malfunction, or late, lost or misdirected mail, or any injury or damage to participant's or any other person's computer related to or resulting from participation in this Contest.  The Sponsor and AAN reserve the right to disqualify anyone found to be tampering with or otherwise abusing any aspect of the Contest as determined by them in their sole discretion.  The Sponsor and AAN also reserve the right in their sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Contest if tampering, viruses, bugs or other causes beyond their reasonable control corrupt the administration, security, fairness or proper operation of the Contest. Should the Contest be terminated prior to the stated end date, the Sponsor and AAN reserve the right to choose winners from among the video submissions entered prior to the early termination date.

Disputes
By entering the Contest participants agree that (a) any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of, or connected with, the Contest or any prize awarded shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively by the appropriate court located in the District of Columbia; (b) any and all claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with entering this Contest, but in no event attorneys' fees; and (c) under no circumstances will participants be permitted to obtain for, and each participant hereby waives all rights to claim, punitive, incidental and consequential damages and any other damages, other than out-of-pocket expenses, and any and all rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of the Official Rules, participants’ rights and obligations, or the rights and obligations of the Sponsor or AAN in connection with the Contest, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the District of Columbia, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules (whether of the District of Columbia or any other jurisdiction), which would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other the District of Columbia.

 



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