All Online Entries become the sole property of the Sponsor and will not be acknowledged or returned.
Considering the presence of this clause, and no explicit "you maintain the right to reproduce your creation" clause (for e.g. demo reels), I'm going to assume that this is Yet Another Grasping Contest Agreement.
The rules don't say that your master becomes their property, though, so maybe it's not that bad.
But fuck them anyway for not spelling that out. Just because they have all the cards doesn't mean that they can't give you, the entrant, assurance that you can use your work to show off what you can do.
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Sponsor reserves the right to edit, rewrite, redirect or not produce the Grand Prize Winner’s Online Entry as a commercial advertisement for any reason. Further, should Sponsor decide to produce the Grand Prize Winner’s Online Entry as a commercial advertisement, the Grand Prize Winner acknowledges and agrees that he or she will have no creative or financial involvement or input in the production
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I'm aware that it's likely that both of those clauses are standard contest boilerplate, but I think someone needs to point out how badly skewed the relationship here is. There's a clause in there that explicitly states that nothing here implies an employment agreement, and boy, do the rest of the rules make you aware of it.
Hey, as long as the prize comes in the form of something worth 100g, then I'm not turning it down.
Also, about the employment thing, it's a contest.. didn't expect to be employed by them afterwards.. just a shot at the prize. I don't care what they do with the video after I submit it really, as long as they don't just recreate it themselves and screw us over on the prize.
Well, they do reserve the right to do half of thatext_119048May 21 2009, 19:49:17 UTC
You grant CareerBuilder (1) the right to recreate your commercial, and (2) the right to give you a $100,000 gee-whiz useless gizmo in the event that $100,000 in cash is not available. If you're okay with turning that gizmo into cash, perhaps gaining some value, perhaps losing some value, that's okay, I guess.
I can't bring myself to value "money" over "not being treated as a node in a computation cluster", though, no matter the amount. Which is probably why the first thing I did with the link to the contest was read the rules.
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All Online Entries become the sole property of the Sponsor and will not be acknowledged or returned.
Considering the presence of this clause, and no explicit "you maintain the right to reproduce your creation" clause (for e.g. demo reels), I'm going to assume that this is Yet Another Grasping Contest Agreement.
The rules don't say that your master becomes their property, though, so maybe it's not that bad.
But fuck them anyway for not spelling that out. Just because they have all the cards doesn't mean that they can't give you, the entrant, assurance that you can use your work to show off what you can do.
Also:
Sponsor reserves the right to edit, rewrite, redirect or not produce the Grand Prize Winner’s Online Entry as a commercial advertisement for any reason. Further, should Sponsor decide to produce the Grand Prize Winner’s Online Entry as a commercial advertisement, the Grand Prize Winner acknowledges and agrees that he or she will have no creative or financial involvement or input in the production ( ... )
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Also, about the employment thing, it's a contest.. didn't expect to be employed by them afterwards.. just a shot at the prize. I don't care what they do with the video after I submit it really, as long as they don't just recreate it themselves and screw us over on the prize.
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I can't bring myself to value "money" over "not being treated as a node in a computation cluster", though, no matter the amount. Which is probably why the first thing I did with the link to the contest was read the rules.
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I'd make a video for pizza.
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