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1. ELIGIBILITY.
Open to all students who are 18
(eighteen) years of age or older at the
time of entry and actively enrolled at a
two-year, four-year, or advanced degree
granting college or university. However,
residents of the following countries are
ineligible to participate: Cuba, Iran,
North Korea, Sudan and Syria. In
addition residents of the Province of
Quebec are ineligible to participate.
Void wherever prohibited by law.
Employees of Microsoft Corporation,
their affiliates, parent companies,
participating vendors, subsidiaries and
advertising and promotion agencies, and
anyone working directly on this program,
product and promotion and the immediate
family members or those living in the
same household of each (Sponsor and
Administrators) are not eligible to
enter.
2. CONTEST DESCRIPTION.
The Contest is skill-based, and the
object is to submit a photograph for
judging in three categories for the
chance to win cash and prizes as
described below.
This Contest is conducted in the
United States of America, and entries
and registration information is
collected on computers located in the
U.S.A. This contest is governed by
Washington law, and by entering you
agree to accept jurisdiction and venue
in the Courts of the State of
Washington, U.S.A.
ENTRY PERIOD.
The Contest begins at 12:01 AM PT on
March 1, 2009 and ends at 11:59 PM PT
April 30, 2009 (Entry Period). All
entries must be received prior to the
close of the Contest Entry Period. Any
entries submitted after the deadline
will be disqualified.
3. HOW TO ENTER.
No purchase necessary. To enter
online visit the Contest website located
at
http://www.microsoft.com/ProPhoto
and register. You'll be asked to provide
your first and last name, date of birth,
college or university, and e-mail
address. You must then submit your
image(s), and then click on the "submit"
button to be entered into the Contest.
For purposes of this Contest each
digital image will be considered a
single entry. Multiple entries are
permitted in each category, but a
maximum of three (3) entries is the
total number of entries permitted.
Entry criteria.
All entries submitted must be
original, must not have been previously
published, released or distributed for
commercial use and must have been
created and owned exclusively by the
entrant submitting the creation. All
submissions may be posted on a publicly
accessible web site following the
contest. Microsoft disclaims any and all
liability for any infringement of any
3rd parties rights in any submission
caused by any entrant.
Categories / Entry Limits:
Each entrant may submit a total of
three (3) digital photographs in any of
the following categories:
i) Nature &
Landscape
ii) People &
Portraits
iii) Sports &
Photojournalism
Entrants may enter multiple photos in
the same category. Any entries submitted
by the same person in excess of 3 will
be disqualified.
4. JUDGING:
A panel of independent judges will
review eligible entries and select the
four (4) winners based upon the
following criteria, each to be weighted
equally:
- Originality
- Technical execution (focus,
exposure)
- Visual Impact (composition,
impact, lighting.)
- Relevance to category:
Judges will announce the winners, on
or about July 9, 2009, and will collect
the required Forms discussed in Section
6 below. Given a qualified number of
entries are received, up to, but no more
than four (4) winners will be chosen.
The decisions of these judges are
final and binding.
5. RIGHTS TO USE ENTRIES.
As a condition of accepting a
prize, you agree to grant
Microsoft an irrevocable royalty-free
worldwide license for a period of three
(3) years after the contests conclusion
to reproduce and display the image,
credited with your first and last name,
in print and on the web for the sole
purpose of only promoting this
contest.
6. WINNERS' NOTIFICATION.
One (1) Grand Prize winner and three
(3) First Place winners will be
announced on July 09, 2008 at the
Microsoft Pro Photo Summit in Redmond,
WA.
Winners will be notified by phone or
by U.S. mail, overnight mail, or e-mail
at the discretion of the Sponsor and
Administrators. Winners will be required
to provide Sponsor with an Affidavit of
Eligibility / Liability / Publicity
release and IRS tax form W-9 or IRS tax
form W8-BEN. If winner does not reply to
such notification, the notification is
undeliverable, and/or the forms are not
completed and returned within 10 days of
prize notification, the winner may be
disqualified and an alternate winner
will be selected based upon the judging
criteria. Prizes will be awarded within
approximately 60 days of notification.
7. PRIZES.
(1) Grand Prize of US$20,000 and a
digital prize package worth
approximately US$2,000. Approximate
Retail Value US$22,000
(3) First Prize of US$3,000 and a
digital prize package worth
approximately US$2,000 Approximate
Retail Value US$5,000
No substitution or transfer of prize
permitted, except by the sponsor who
reserves the right to award a prize of
equal or greater value if advertised
prize is unavailable. Taxes on the
prize, if any, are the sole
responsibility of the recipient. The
Sponsor and Administrators are not
responsible for any damages or injury
incurred by any entrant and/or his or
her companions as a result of winning.
Any and all guarantees and warranties
are subject to the manufacturers terms
and conditions, and winners agree to
look solely to such manufacturers for
any such warranty or guarantee claim.
8. CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION.
This Contest is void where
prohibited. Acceptance of a prize
constitutes permission for Sponsor and
Administrators to use that winner's
name, likeness, picture and Entry
without additional compensation
for promoting the contest
unless and where prohibited by law. By
entering this Contest you agree to and
hereby release and hold harmless Sponsor
and Administrators from any and all
liability or any injuries, loss or
damage of any kind arising from or in
connection with your participation in
this Contest, or any prize. If you do
not want to grant the foregoing release,
please do not enter the Contest.
Microsoft reserves the right to request
proof of enrollment to confirm potential
winner's status as a student.
Your entry must be your own
original work. By submitting
your Entry in the Contest, you represent
and warrant that it is your sole
original work, and that you have
obtained any and all consents, approvals
or licenses required for you to submit
your Entry and comply with all of these
Official Rules, including obtaining the
written consent of all 3rd parties,
where applicable. You waive any claim of
infringement (including without
limitation copyright, trademark, patent,
trade name, trade secret, etc.) against
the Sponsor and Administrators or their
licensees based upon access to or use of
your Entry. In the event of any dispute
regarding who is the entrant that
submitted an email Entry, the potential
winner must provide sponsor with proof
that the potential winner is the
authorized account holder of the e-mail
address associated with the potentially
winning Entry.
9. LIMITATION ON LIABILITY.
Sponsor is not responsible for any
incorrect or inaccurate information,
whether caused by website users or by
any of the equipment or programming
associated with or utilized in the
Contest or by any technical or human
error which may occur in the processing
of Entries. Sponsor assumes no
responsibility for any error, omission,
interruption, deletion, defect, delay in
operation or transmission,
communications line failure, theft or
destruction or unauthorized access to,
or alteration of, entries. Sponsor and
Administrators are not responsible for
any problems or technical malfunction of
any telephone network or lines, computer
on-line-systems, servers or providers,
computer equipment, software, failure of
email on account of technical problems
or traffic congestion on the Internet or
at any website or combination thereof,
including injury or damage to
participants or to any other person's
computer related to or resulting from
participating or downloading materials
in this Contest. If, for any reason, the
Contest is not capable of running as
planned, including infection by computer
virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized
intervention, fraud, technical failures,
or any other causes beyond the control
of Sponsor or Administrators, which
corrupt or affect the administration,
security, fairness, integrity or proper
conduct of this Contest, Sponsor
reserves the right at their sole
discretion to cancel, terminate, modify
the or suspend the Contest.
10. OTHER.
Illegible, unintelligible or
incomplete Entries will be disqualified.
CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT BY A CONTESTANT OR
ANY OTHER INDIVIDUAL TO DELIBERATELY
DAMAGE ANY WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE
LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE CONTEST IS A
VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND
SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, SPONSORS
RESERVE THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES FROM
ANY SUCH CONTESTANT TO THE FULLEST
EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. Without
limiting the foregoing, Sponsor may
disqualify any entrants from the Contest
who deliberately damage, tamper with or
undermine the legitimate operation of
the Contest.
11. WINNERS LIST REQUEST.
To request a list of winners, send an
email request to
jgreene@microsoft.com with the
subject line: Future Pro Winners.
Requests received after September 30,
2009 may be disregarded.
12. SPONSOR.
This Contest is sponsored by
Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft
Way, Redmond, Washington 98052.
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