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NET10 National Audition
Official Rules
1.
Eligibility:
To enter the NET10 National Audition Contest ("Audition" or "Contest"),
Contestants must be legal residents of the 50 United States or District of
Columbia at least 13 years old at time of entry. Employees, officers and
directors of TracFone Wireless, Inc
("Sponsor" or "NET10"), Opus One Corporation ("MakeaStar"), their
respective parents, subsidiaries and affiliated companies, advertising and
promotion agencies, Web masters and Web suppliers, and Contest judges,
their respective immediate family members (parents, spouse, children or
siblings, wherever they reside) and persons living in their household
(whether or not related) are not eligible. Both professional and amateur
performers may enter. By entering the Contest, Contestants (and their
parents/legal guardian if the entrants are minors in their jurisdiction of
residence) agree to be bound by these Official Rules and the decisions of
NET10 and/or the judges which are final and binding in all respects. This
Contest is void where prohibited.
2.
Contest:
The term "Contest" shall mean a series of tournament-style Music contests
created and available on www.net10nationalaudition.com web site ("Web
site" or "Site".) Each Contestant will be required to submit his/her
version of the song "My Perfect Ten," with other Contest Materials, into
this online Contest. The Contest has two categories, specifically, one in
English and the other in Spanish. There is no charge or Entry Fee to enter
the Contest.
The Contest for entries in English starts
on August 1, 2005 at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Time (PT) and ends on October 31st,
2005 at 11:59 p.m. PT. The Contest for entries in Spanish starts on August
15, 2005 at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Time (PT) and ends on October 31st,
2005 at 11:59 p.m. PT. The Contest computer is the official time keeping
device for the Contest. A day begins 12:01 a.m. PT and ends the following
11:59 p.m. PT.
3.
To Enter:
Contestants must submit their "Contest Materials" as directed and
described on the Web site's Contest entry page. Go to
www.net10nationalaudition.com (directly or via the link on www.net10.com).
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When you
have accessed the NET10 National Audition Web site, click on the
Register Here icon, banner or text link to be taken to the registration
page. At that page, complete the registration
form which includes your name, address, city, state, zip code, gender,
age group, and e-mail address. Registrants will also be asked to
select a username and password. (Note: registrants are solely
responsible and liable for all actions taken under their user name or
password so they should maintain it as secure.) After filling out the
registration form, click on the SIGNUP button. Within a few minutes
registrants will receive an automatic email from the Site to
authenticate and confirm their registration. Follow the instructions in
the email to activate your account.
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Once the
registration is complete and the account has been activated, if you wish
to participate in the Contest as a Contestant, click on the Contest
Entry button on the top navigation bar on the top of the page of the
Site's home page and you will be taken to the Contest registration page
where you will find the Contestant Submission Form. On that page
Contestants can submit their Contest Materials as described below.
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The
entry information provided is subject to the Privacy Policy on the above
stated Web site. To read that Policy, access the Web site and then
access the Privacy Policy.
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CONTEST MATERIALS SUBMISSION:
Contest Materials refer to, Contestant's recording of Contestant's
version/ arrangement of the song "My Perfect Ten," (sometimes hereafter
"song"), a photograph of Contestant, a brief description of the
Contestant and/or Contestant's version/ arrangement of the song, an
essay/description about the Contestant, and if the Contestant advances
to Phase 3 of the Contest, the video recording of the Contestant
performing Contestant's version/ arrangement of the song.
About
the Contest Materials and How To Submit the Contest Materials:
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On the
Contestant Submission Form you will be asked to select your Contestant
Name, which should not be your username or password. This is the name
under which you would like to be identified in the Contest. You will
also be asked to complete a brief description of yourself or a
description of your version of the song. That description cannot exceed
40 characters. You will also be asked to complete a longer detailed
essay about yourself. The essay/description about yourself cannot exceed
5000 characters and must be truthful and accurate in all respects. For
both the brief description and essay, if the allowed character count is
exceeded you will be immediately notified. Further, this is the page on
which you must upload your photo and song recording, as directed. You
must record your version of the song "My Perfect Ten." (For the
purpose of the Contest a version consists the original lyrics and the
original music arranged to reflect the performer's presentation style).
The recording can only contain the Contestant as a singing individual
performer, and back-up music. Entries by duos, groups or bands will be
disqualified. You may only submit your version of the song: "My Perfect
Ten" (Shur/Woodward). Any other songs submitted will be disqualified.
You may submit your version in English or Spanish; a winner will be
declared in each of those categories. No other language will be
accepted. For your convenience, a free download of a version of the
song sung by Erin Jaimes in MP3 format has been made available. A guitar
backing track, and the music score with the words has also been made
available; but you are under no obligation to download or use any of
these. To download these you will need a computer with the Windows
operating system, with a minimum of 1 MB of RAM. All the downloads are
free. Changing or adding to the original words or music may lead to
immediate disqualification of your entry, at the sole discretion of
NET10. The recording cannot exceed 30 seconds in playing length;
submission of longer recordings may lead to the song being cut off or
being disqualified, as solely determined by NET10, and once submitted it
cannot be altered, changed, or modified. You must upload your version
in MP3 format and the file cannot be larger than 1 MB.
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Your
submission must be accompanied by a recent (taken not more than 1 year
prior to August 1, 2005) actual
photograph of you - the -Contestant - only in GIF or JPEG
formats. The photo may be in black and white or in color, cannot exceed
a file size of two-tenths MB and 72 dpi, and cannot have been altered,
changed, or modified by any digital or other processing, and cannot be
changed, altered or modified once submitted.
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If your
MP3 file (or video if you advance to Phase 3) does not play, or if your
photo file does not open, or if your MP3 file (or video) or photo file
is corrupted, or you are unable to upload either or both of them for any
reason, you absolve NET10 and MakeaStar from any responsibility, and
have no rights of special entry other than the standard online entry
method offered to all Contestants. Releases, as defined below, shall
not be responsible or liable for failed uploads, system downtime or
other difficulties in successfully receiving and recording your Contest
Materials or any part of your Contest Materials.
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No
entries other than as stated in these Official Rules will be accepted.
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NET10
and MakeaStar reserve the right to cancel or reject any Contest
Materials for any reason, deemed valid or appropriate by either of them,
for example but not limited to, all files will be scanned for viruses,
or any other features which NET10 and/or MakeaStar deem in either of
their sole discretion to be potentially harmful; and any Contest
Materials, or parts of any Contest Materials found to contain any such
harmful features will cause the entry represented by those Contest
Materials to be disqualified. Further any Contest Materials, or any part
of any Contest Materials, which NET10 and/or MakeaStar deem in either of
their sole discretion to be inappropriate for publication/broadcast will
cause the entry represented by those Contest Materials to be
disqualified.
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Regarding the Contest Materials (a)the essay must be truthful and
accurate in all respects, (b)the recording (and video if Contestant
advances to Phase 3) must be the actual recording of the Contestant and
may not be altered, changed, or modified by any digital or other
processing, (c)the photograph of Contestant must be the actual
photograph of Contestant and may not be altered, changed, or modified by
any digital or other processing (d) the Contest Materials may not
violate any law, regulation or any right of any third party, including
but not limited to rights of patent, copyright, trademark, publicity or
privacy or portrayal in false light, and may not contain material which
is defamatory, slanderous or libelous, (e)the version/arrangement of the
song performed by Contestant must be the Contestant's own original work
and no third party may have contributed to the version/ arrangement in
any manner whatsoever (f) the version/arrangement may not have been
submitted in any other competition and may not have been published, and
(g) the remaining Contest Materials must be Contestant's own original
work and no third party may have contributed to the Contest Materials in
any manner whatsoever (except only for a photographer of the photo
submitted and the videographer for the video submitted, in which cases
the Contestant must have secured in writing permission to use those
Materials in accordance with these Rules); and each Contestant (and
Contestant's parent/legal guardian if Contestant is a minor) warrants
and represents that his/her Contest Materials comply with all of these
conditions in all respects.
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By
submitting Contest Materials each Contestant (and Contestants
parent/legal guardian if Contestant is a minor) grants permission to
post his/her name, and the Contest Materials on the Site for the
purposes stated in these Rules. Each Contestant (and Contestants
parent/legal guardian if Contestant is a minor) warrants and represents
that he/she has obtained in writing all rights, approvals and/or
consents necessary to submit the Contest Material in the Contest, and
grant the stated permission to post the Contest Materials (for example
but not limited to, rights of the photographer who has taken the photo
submitted by the Contestant, and/or rights of a videographer who has
taken the video of Contestant submitted by the Contestant) and that
should Sponsor at any time request that any Contestant provide any such
rights, approvals and/or consents in written form, Contestant will
provide them in written form in the time specified in that request.
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By
submitting Contest Materials the Contestant (and Contestants
parent/legal guardian if Contestant is a minor) warrants and represents
that he/she is not signed to a contract or bound by any other
contractual obligation that would prohibit entering the Contest.
Contestants (and Contestants parent/legal guardian if Contestant is a
minor) further agree not to bring any copyright infringement action or
other related claim against NET10 or MakeaStar which is based, in whole
or in part, on net10NationalAudition.com's access to the Contest
Materials.
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Multiple
submissions to the Contest by the same Contestant are allowed, as long
as the submissions are in different Phase 1 Tournament Groups, provided
each such submission is unique, as solely determined by Sponsor.
10.
Contest Materials will become
the property of Sponsor, and will not be acknowledged or returned.
The Contest will have 3
Phases:
Phase
1: Contest Materials will be posted on the Site beginning August 1, 2005
at 12:01a.m. PT through September 14, 2005 11:59 p.m. PT for Entries in
English and August 15, 2005 at
12:01a.m. PT through September 14, 2005 11:59 p.m. PT for Entries in
Spanish).
Contest Materials must be received and recorded by the Contest computer by
September 10, 2005 at 11:59 p.m. PT to be eligible, and Contest Materials
will not be accepted thereafter.
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Contestants compete in a series of tournament style contests
("Tournament Groups"), e.g. Tournament Group 1, Tournament Group 2, and
Tournament Group 3.
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Each Tournament Group consists of 4 Rounds:
Preliminary, Quarter- Final, Semi-Final, and Final.
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The competition in each Tournament Group
will start as soon as 16 contestants have submitted their Contest
Material, and that material is received and recorded by the Contest
computer. The 16 contestants will be randomly paired in 8 matches in
the Preliminary Round of a Tournament Group with 2 contestants in each
match. Should, however, there be insufficient Contestants to form a
Group containing 16 Contestants, that Group will continue with the
number of Contestants available for that Group in a manner fairly and
equitably determined solely by Sponsor.
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Each Round lasts 1 day, i.e. total of 4
days to complete a Phase I Tournament Group. At the end of the
Preliminary Round, one contestant from each match will be determined as
the winner of that match. The winners of the Preliminary Rounds are
automatically entered into the Quarter-final matches: winners of Match 1
and Match 2 of the Preliminary Round are entered in Match 1 of the
Quarter Final Round; winners of Match 3 and Match 4 of the Preliminary
Round are entered in Match 2 of the Quarter Final Round. The Phase 1
Tournament Group Round winners will be determined in the same manner,
with Quarter Final Round match winners advancing to the Semi-Final Round
and the Semi-Final match winners advancing to the Final Round.
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The winners of each Phase 1 Tournament
Group are solely determined by the votes of registered users of the
Site, where each user can only vote once in any match. In the case of a
tie in any match, the Contestant with the earliest submission date/time
for that match is automatically determined as the winner of that match
by the Contest computer system and is advanced to the next Round.
Phase
2: Contest Materials will be posted on the Site beginning September 16 at
12:01 a.m. PT through September 30 at 11:59 p.m. PT
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Depending on the number of Phase 1 winners,
the Phase 1 winners will be randomly entered in one or more Phase 2
Tournament Groups. The configuration of the Phase 2 Tournament Groups,
i.e. the number of Phase 2 Tournament Groups, the number of Rounds in
each Tournament Group, the number of matches in each Round, and the
number of Contestants in each match will be determined on or about
September 15th, based on the number of Phase 1 winners. The
configuration of the Phase 2 Tournament Groups, and the number of
Contestants in each Group, will be one or more of the following:
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The Tournament Group may have between 1
to 4 Rounds where:
i. A
1-Round Tournament Group will have 1 match
ii.
A 2-Round Tournament Group will have 3 matches (2 matches in Round 1 and 1
match in Round 2)
iii. A
3-Round Tournament Group will have 7 matches (4 matches in Round 1, 2
matches in Round 2 and 1 match in Round 3)
iv.
A 4-Round Tournament Group will have 15 matches (8, matches in Round 1, 4
matches in Round 2, 2 matches in Round 3 and 1 match in Round 4)
v.
Regardless of the number of Rounds, each match in the first Round may have
between 2 to 5 contestants, randomly picked from Phase 1 winners and
placed into each match of the Phase 2 Tournament Groups.
vi. Should,
however, there be insufficient Contestants to form a Group with the same
number of Contestants in all of the other Groups, that Group will continue
with the number of Contestants available, in a manner determined solely by
Sponsor.
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Winners of each Phase 2 match are decided
solely by the votes of registered users of the Site. Similar to Phase
I, each user can only vote once in a match. Ties will be resolved in the
same manner as for Phase 1.
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Winners of each Phase 2 match will be
notified by mail, overnight or email on or about 10/02/05, and will be
then required to provide a video of himself/herself performing the song.
The notification will advise if a video is required, and by the date and
time when the video must be received and recorded by Sponsor's computer.
Should a video be requested but not received and recorded by Sponsor's
computer as stated, that Contestant may be disqualified.
Phase
3: Contest Materials will be posted on the Site beginning October 16 at
12:01 a.m. PT through October 31 at 11:59 p.m. PT
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Phase 3 will only consist of one Tournament
Group, in which the Phase 2 winners (Finalists") are randomly entered.
Each Phase 3 Contestant will be required to submit a video of
himself/herself singing the song. The video must be made at Contestant's
expense. Submission of the video will also be online; can be no longer
than 30 seconds in play length, cannot exceed a file size of 6MB, and
must be a .wmv file. The quality of the submission video's production
will not be a factor for the judging panel, and we encourage Contestants
to focus on the quality of their singing and performance to camera.
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The configuration of the Phase 3 Tournament
Group, i.e. the number of Rounds in the Tournament Group, the number of
matches in each Round, and the number of contestants in each match will
be determined on October 1, 2005, and will depend on the number of Phase
2 winners. The configuration of the Phase 3 Tournament Group will be
one of the following:
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The Tournament Group may have between 1
to 4 Rounds where:
i.
A 1-Round Tournament Group which will have 1 match; OR
ii. A
2-Round Tournament Group which will have 3 matches (2 matches in Round 1
and 1 match in Round 2); OR
iii. A
3-Round Tournament Group which will have 7 matches (4 matches in Round 1,
2 matches in Round 2 and 1 match in Round 3); OR
iv. A
4-Round Tournament Group which will have 15 matches (8, matches in Round
1, 4 matches in Round 2, 2 matches in Round 3 and 1 match in Round 4.)
v. Regardless
of the number of Rounds, each match in the first Round of the Phase 3
Tournament Group will have between 2 to 5 contestants, randomly picked
from Phase 2 winners and placed into each match.
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The winners of each match in the Phase 3
Tournament Group will be decided by the combination of votes of industry
expert Judges and registered users.
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Three or more industry expert Judges will
vote in each match, each Judge scoring a contestant with one score
between 1 to 10, (10 being best) for each of the following criteria:
vocal quality, originality of presentation, and camera presence. The
scores of the 3 Judges for each contestant will then be averaged and
will be given a weight of 80% for the determination of the winner of
each match. Judges can only score once in each match.
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Registered users of the Site will also vote
for their favorite contestants in the matches. The votes of the
registered users will carry a 20% weight in the determination of the
winner of each match. The English language and the Spanish language
Contestants who receive the highest combined judge and registered user
votes scores will be declared the respective winners.
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In the event of a tie, the tied entry with
the highest score in the vocal quality criterion will be declared the
winner. If tie continues then the tied entry with the highest score in
the originality of presentation will be declared the winner. Should a
tie continue, a new judge will judge the tied entries based on the
original criteria.
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Winners will be notified by mail, overnight
mail or email on or about 11/07/05.
5.
Prizes:
The 2 Winners (one for the English winner and one for the Spanish winner)
will each receive the following:
- A
trip to New York City for winner and one (1) guest consisting of round
trip coach air transportation for two (2) people (from the commercial
airport nearest winner's U.S. residence, as determined by Sponsor in its
sole discretion) to New York City, standard double-occupancy hotel
accommodations for two (2) nights, and $500 spending money awarded in the
form of a check to winner. Approximate Retail Value of the Prize is $2000
each. Actual value of prize will depend on final itinerary, and any
difference between the stated value and actual value will not be awarded.
Travel dates will be determined by Sponsor and winner will be provided
advance notification thereof. Travel/hotel accommodations and
transportation are subject to availability, change, restrictions, and are
at the sole discretion of Sponsor. Trip cancellation insurance, meals,
gratuities and all other costs and expenses not specified herein are
solely winner's responsibility. If winner is a minor in his/her
jurisdiction of residence, winner must be accompanied by winner's parent
or legal guardian. Winner and guest must travel on the same itinerary, and
must comply with all security requirements. In addition to the above trip,
winners will, at the sole discretion of Sponsor, have the opportunity to:
- Participate
in the TV production shoot for NET10's next TV commercial
- Appear
in the new NET10 commercial as it is run on television, with a name credit
for the singer, and on-camera exposure during part or all of the
commercial. The duration of the singer's on-camera appearance in the
commercial, if any, shall be at the sole discretion of NET10, as will the
network(s) on which the commercial will appear. Please note that the
singer will appear in a commercial running during a show, not within the
editorial content of the show itself.
- Standard
television payment fees (known as "scale" payments) commensurate with the
prevailing industry rates at the time for the networks and media schedule
on which the commercial is run. The same television appearance payments
will be made to the winners whether they are non-union or union
performers, and such payments shall be rendered through NET10's talent
payment agency, Talent Partners Inc. Please note: SAG, AFTRA or other
performing union members are welcome to participate, and will be paid at
scale rates if they appear in mass media.
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Winner of the Spanish Contest will receive exposure in a NET10 Spanish
commercial to be broadcast on a Spanish Network under similar terms, as
stated above.
- Taxes
on the prize are the sole responsibility of the winner.
- If
a winner cannot accept prize as stated prize will be forfeited in its
entirety and awarded to an alternate winner, in accordance with the winner
determination provisions, above.
- Prize
cannot be transferred, substituted or redeemed for cash or credit, but
Sponsor reserves the right to substitute prize of equal or greater value
if prize becomes unavailable.
- If
a winner is a minor in his/her jurisdiction of residence, prize may be
awarded in the name of, or to, winner's parent/legal guardian who must
execute all documents and agree to all obligations and undertakings of
winner, both on behalf of himself/herself and winner, or prize may be
forfeited and awarded to an alternate winner.
6.
Contest Winner Conditions:
Contest Winner (and winner's parent/legal guardian if winner is a minor)
must complete, execute and return an Affidavit of eligibility, a Liability
Release and, where lawful, Publicity Release within 14 days of receipt of
the documents Return of the documents or prize as non-deliverable,
failure to return the documents timely, or if winner is found to be
ineligible or not in compliance with these Official Rules or is otherwise
ineligible may result in disqualification and the and awarding of the
prize to an alternate winner. Trip winner's travel companion must
complete, sign and return a Liability Release, and where lawful, Publicity
Release, prior to issuance of travel documents. If travel companion is a
minor in his/her jurisdiction of residence Releases must be completed and
signed, by his/her parent/legal guardian both on behalf of himself/herself
and the minor, and minor's parent/legal guardian may be required to travel
with the minor at parent/legal guardian's expense. When a travel companion
is determined, that travel companion cannot be changed for any reason
without the approval of Sponsor, which may be withheld for any reason
whatsoever.
Further, by entering, Contestants (and Contestant's parent/legal guardian
if Contestant is a minor) release and agree to indemnify and hold
harmless Sponsor, NET10, net10NationalAudition.com, MakeaStar.com, their
respective parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, retailers, franchisees,
sponsors, advertising and promotion agencies and all their respective
directors, officers, employees, representatives and agents (individually
and collectively "Releasees") from any and all liability for any injuries,
losses or damages (including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential
or punitive damages, and attorney's fees) of any kind to person(s),
including death, and property, or for breach of any representation or
warranty, or violation of intellectual property or personal rights (such
as but not limited to, copyright, trade name/trademark, and/or rights of
privacy or publicity or portrayal in a false light) arising in
whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from acceptance, possession, use
or misuse of a prize, participation in any Contest related or travel
related activity, or participation in this Contest. By accepting a
prize, where permitted by law, each winner (and each winner's parent/legal
guardian if winner is a minor) grants to Sponsor, and those acting
pursuant to Sponsor's authority, and/or direction or control the right to
print, publish, broadcast and use, worldwide in any media now known or
hereafter developed, including but not limited to the World Wide Web and
Internet, at any time or times, the winner's full name, portrait, picture,
voice, , likeness and video of same, and biographical information, and
Contest Materials (and notwithstanding anything to the contrary in
these Official Rules license the use of the Contest Materials, which may
be altered, changed, modified, edited, used individually, or alone, or
together or with other works, and/or in distorted form, as solely
determined by Sponsor), as news or information and/or for advertising,
trade and promotional purposes without additional consideration, and
without review, approval or notification. Contest Materials of
each Contestant will be deemed a Work Made For Hire under the Copyright
laws of the United States, but if they cannot be so deemed, then each
winner (and the winner's parent/legal guardian if winner is a minor)
irrevocably assigns and transfers to Sponsor all of his/her right, title
and interest in and to each of his/her Contest Materials, including all
but not limited to all copyright and trademark rights which he or she may
have, in the United States and worldwide, therein, for consideration, the
receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged. Winners (and
each winner's parent/legal guardian, if winner is a minor) hereby waive in
favor of Sponsor, all rights of "Droit Moral" or "Moral Rights of Authors"
or any similar rights or principles of law that the winners (and the
winner's parent/legal guardian if winner is a minor) may now or later have
to or in any of their Contest Materials. Upon request of Sponsor, winner(s)
(and the winner's parent/legal guardian if winner is a minor) shall
execute and deliver such additional instrument of assignment, as may be
solely deemed by Sponsor, reasonably necessary to establish the ownership
of record of the right, title and interest in and to each of the Contest
Materials and of the copyrights transferred and "Moral Rights of Authors"
waived under these Official Rules. Should Sponsor fail to request the
said assignment as stated, that shall not be deemed a waiver of Sponsor's
rights and Sponsor may at a later time request the assignment. Further,
Sponsor may request from each winner (and the winner's parent/legal
guardian if winner is a minor) that the winner secure from the
photographer and/or videographer an irrevocable assignment and transfer to
Sponsor all of the photographers and/or videographers right, title and
interest in and to the winner's Contest Materials, including but not
limited to all copyright and trademark rights which he or she may have, in
the United States and worldwide, therein, for consideration, the receipt
and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged. The photographer
and/or videographer may be required to waive in favor of Sponsor, all
rights of "Droit Moral" or "Moral Rights of Authors" or any similar rights
or principles of law that the photographer and /or videographer may now or
later have in the Contest Materials. Should Sponsor fail to request the
said photographer and/or videographer assignment as stated, that shall not
be deemed a waiver of Sponsor's rights and Sponsor may at a later time
request the assignment.
7.
Limitations of Liability:
Releasees are not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, separated,
stolen, misdirected, illegible or non-delivered, email or registration
information or Contest Materials; or for any computer, telephone, cable,
network, satellite, electronic or internet hardware or software
malfunctions, failures, connections, or availability, or for garbled,
corrupted, delayed, misdirected or jumbled transmissions, or service
provider/Internet/Web site/use net accessibility or availability, traffic
congestion, or technical errors or difficulties, or other errors of any
kind whether human, mechanical, electronic or network, or unauthorized
human intervention, or the incorrect or inaccurate capture of registration
information, Contest Materials or other information, or the failure to
capture, or loss of, any such Materials or information. Releasees are not
responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by
Web site users, tampering, hacking, or by any of the equipment or
programming associated with or utilized in the Contest and assume 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 use of the Web site. Sponsor
reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual
it finds, in its sole discretion, to be tampering with the entry process
or the operation of the Contest or Web site; to be in violation of the
Conditions of Use of the Web site to be acting in violation of the
Official Rules; or to be acting in a non-sportsmanlike or disruptive
manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other
person. Any use of robotic, automatic, macro, programmed or like entry or
registration methods will void all such entries by such methods, and
disqualify any Contestant using such methods. Releasees not responsible
for injury or damage to participants' or to any other person's computer
related to or resulting from participating in this Contest or downloading
materials from or use of the Web site. In the event of a dispute, Contest
Materials will be declared as submitted by the authorized account holder
of the email address used or the password/user name used to submit the
entry at time of entry as solely determined by Sponsor. "Authorized
account holder" is defined as the natural person who is assigned to the
email address by the Internet access online service provider or other
organization (e.g., business, educational institution, etc.) that is
responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with
the submitted email address and the pass word/user name is the
password/user name selected by a Contestant at time of registration.
If, for any reason, the
Contest is not capable of running as planned by reason of infection by
computer virus, worms, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud,
technical failures, strikes, acts of God, or any other causes which
Sponsor, in the sole opinion of Sponsor, deems could corrupt or affect the
administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this
Contest, Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to cancel,
terminate, modify or suspend the Contest and select the winners from
entries received prior to the action taken or as otherwise may be deemed
fair and equitable by Sponsor. IN NO EVENT WILL RELEASEES, BE RESPONSIBLE
OR LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OR LOSSES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING DIRECT,
INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF
YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF INTERNET SITE OR THE DOWNLOADING FROM AND/OR
PRINTING MATERIAL DOWNLOADED FROM SAID SITE. WITHOUT LIMITING THE
FOREGOING, EVERYTHING ON THIS SITE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF
ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR
NON-INFRINGEMENT. SOME JURISDICTIONS MAY NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATIONS OR
EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR
EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES SO SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS OR
EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. CHECK YOUR LOCAL LAWS FOR ANY
RESTRICTIONS OR LIMITATIONS REGARDING THESE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS.
8.
Choice of Law/Dispute
Resolution:
Except where prohibited, by participating Contestants (and Contestants
parent/legal guardian if Contestant is a minor) agree that: All issues and
questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and
enforceability of these Official Rules, or the rights and obligations of
Contestant(s) Releasees shall be governed by and construed exclusively in
accordance with the laws of the State of Florida without giving effect to
any principles of conflicts of law in any jurisdiction. You agree that any
action at law or in equity arising out of or relating to this Contest
shall be filed only in the state or federal courts located in Dade County
in the State of Florida and you hereby consent and submit to the personal
jurisdiction of such courts for the purposes of litigating any such
action. Except where prohibited, by using the participating in this
Contest you agree that: (a) any and all disputes, claims, and causes of
action arising out of or connected with this Contest shall be resolved
individually, without resort to any form of class action; and (b) any and
all claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket
costs incurred, including costs associated with participating in this
Contest but in no event attorneys' fees; and (c) under no circumstances
will any Contestant be permitted to obtain awards for and hereby waives
all rights to claim punitive, incidental and consequential damages and any
other damages, other than for actual out-of-pocket expenses, and any and
all rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased.
9.
Winners List:
The list of the winners will be posted on the Web site. The list is also
available by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope to: NET10, 8390
N.W. 25th Street, Miami, Florida 33122, for receipt by 12/30/05.
Sponsor:
NET10, 8390 N.W. 25th Street, Miami, Florida 33122
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