1.1 The Theme of the Contest
The entries (submitted photos) should illustrate the motto «Charm oа Hi-Tech» and realized in one the following genres: drawing wallpapers, photo wallpapers, 3D wallpapers. The obligate elements of wallpapers see below.
Contest organizers: Prestigio Technologies (Cyprus) Ltd., and Prestigio Europe spol. s.r.o., (Czech Republic). Website: http://www.prestigio.com.
1.2 Prize Fund
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Grand prix
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Data Safe II 80Gb + 400$
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User choice. Site Сommunity Special prize
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Data Safe I 80Gb +300$
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Prestigio Gold Prize
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Pocket Drive II 80Gb + 200$
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Prestigio Silver Prize
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Leather Data Flash +100$
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All prizes and awards will be presented to the winners only upon presentation of the identity documents and provided they have met entry requirements, including duly signed Copyright Release.
1.3 Rules of Identifying Winning Entries
The Grand-Prix will be awarded to the entrant who will score the highest number of points as a result of the Prestigio Jury’s voting. The Prestigio Jury consists of 20 company employees from corporate divisions based in Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Netherlands.
The Prestigio Gold Prize will be awarded to the entrant who will score the second place in number of points as a result of the Prestigio Jury’s voting.
The Prestigio Silver Prize will be awarded to the entrant who will score the third place in number of points as a result of the Prestigio Jury’s voting.
Site Сcommunity Special prize. The winner will be determined by Prestigio jury voting from 10 first artworks that that will score the maximum number of votes in an independent poll at the website http://art.prestigio.com.
1.4 Voting via site
Any visitor of the website http://art.prestigio.com will be able to vote one time per day for one entry. Every voter will be required to leave a comment at the website in English related to the entry. The Contest organizers reserve the right to remove the comments containing obscenities, insults, remarks of racist nature, advertising, calls for violenceб consists of smiles only etc. Such comments will be removed without notice and explanations. The vote submitted for the entry with such a comment will be automatically subtracted from the entry’s voting score.
1.5 Prestigio Jury Voting Rules
The Prestigio Jury consists of Prestigio employees based in various offices and regions. The Jury is headed by Viktoria Kletskova, Prestigio Internet marketing coordinator. The Jury also includes corporate designers, marketing and brand managers. The Jury shall take into account the theme of submitted entries, sense of humor, and relation to the Prestigio brand.
1.6 Contest Stages and Terms
- Contest term: 10 September – 31 October 2007
- Submission deadline: 28 October
- Voting via website: until 28 October
- Prestigio team voting: 28 October -31 October
- Declaration of the poll: 31 October
1.7 Rules of Entry Submissions
Author has to submit a digital version of the wallpapers via the website http://art.prestigio.com (Authors’ Entry) or by sending it to the following email address: art@prestigio.com
1.8 Entry Requirements
The Jury will only accept completed original wallpapers, as well as meeting the purposes and goals of the Contest, its theme and priorities. The wallpapers submitted to the Contest should be executed on a high artistic and technological level.
When submitting the entry the authors must submit or send to mail art@prestigio.com a scanned copy of the signed Copyright Release which is available for download at the Contest website http://art.prestigio.com. The wallpapers which are not accompanied by the signed Copyright Release will not be accepted.
The wallpapers to site must be presented in one of the following formats: jpg/tif with resolution 1680*150px with the size of no more 2MB. The sources can be requested by organizers during the contest.
The wallpaper has to include one of following elements:
The following types of wallpapers will not be accepted for participation in the Contest:
- materials of erotic and/or pornographic nature;
- artworks executed (or published) with infringement of third party copyrights, or of other current legislation.
The Contestants who have been exposed of plagiarism or use of other person's ideas, shall be permanently disqualified and shall not be allowed to further participate in the Contest.
1.9 Contest Media Coverage
The course of the Contest will be highlighted at the site http://art.prestigio.com and the site www.prestigio.com. At Prestigio discretion the Contest can also be highlighted at other Internet resources of the company, including through continuous exposure of all entries in the Internet. At the discretion of the Contest organizers, the course of the Contest can be widely covered at information sites and in mass media.
1.10 Applicable legislation
These Rules, as well as all rights and duties of the parties to the Contest shall be governed by the material legislation of the Czech Republic. All disputes and disagreements between Organizers of the Contest and participants, where agreement has not been achieved, shall be resolved in the courts of the Czech Republic.
1.11 Use of Author’s Materials
The term “author’s materials” denotes any materials which the Contestant or the participant uploads to the Contest Site on his/her own behalf or sends to the Contest Entry Centers, including (but not limited to) graphic and text materials, name and/or a pseudonym (nickname), images, photos, author’s biographic data.
The participant of the Contest gives the Contest organizers unlimited exclusive fee-free license giving the right::
to prepare, adapt, alter, code, convert in other format or otherwise to change author materials (or any part thereof) for digital transfer, use and demonstration in any format and by any means, known now or invented in the future; to use, show, produce , and distribute materials of the author on the global scale for any purpose, including the promotion of Prestigio products in accordance with the purposes and objectives of the Contest by any means known now or invented in the future.
This provision includes the right of Contest organizers to give public access to the author materials at the websites www.prestigio.com, www.prestigio.ru (and all other Internet resources owned by Prestigio), http://art.prestigio.com, and also the right to use the name of the author in connection with the promotion and popularization of the Contest.
Authors reserve all personal non-property rights in relation to the materials submitted to the Contest, including copyright.
If there is no other written agreement between the author and the Contest organizers, signed by both parties, the author cannot demand neither from the Contest organizers, nor from other persons who have received from organizers of Contest the right to use Contest artworks, any indemnification or payment for use and demonstration of the materials.
1.12 Disclosure of Information
These Rules and the information on the course of the Contest are openly published at the Contest Website. Any interested persons have the right to contact the Organizers asking for explanations of specific provisions of these Rules or other necessary information. The Organizers can be contacted at the following address: art@prestigio.com
