The Fourth International Prestigio Photo Contest "Elegance. Performance. Inspiration"

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1. The Theme of the Contest

The entries (submitted photos) should illustrate and express one of the following concepts: Elegance, Performance and/or Inspiration, and must be realized in one the following genres: reporting, portrait, scenery or landscape photos.

Contest organizers: Prestigio Group consisting of: Prestigio Corporate from the Netherlands, Prestigio Plaza from Cyprus, and Prestigio Europe spol. s.r.o. based in Czech Republic.

Website: http://www.prestigio.com

2. Prize Fund

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.

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 Professional Jury’s voting. This jury consists of 5 professionals with experience and/or expert knowledge of photography.

Nominations ‘Elegance’, ‘Performance’ and ‘Inspiration’ will be awarded to the entrants with the highest number of points as a result of the Prestigio Jury’s voting among all photos in each category. This jury is composed of members from the Prestigio management teams based in Cyprus, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.

The Public’s Choice Award will be given to the entrant whose photo will score the most votes in an independent poll. The Prestigio jury will beforehand make a pre-selection of 20 creative artworks.

Management of Prestigio, members of Prestigio jury and Professional jury and their families  are prohibited from winning any prizes awarded.

4. Voting via site

Any visitor of the website http://art.prestigio.com will be able to vote as of one time per day, for one entry. The Contest organizers reserve the right to remove without notice and explanations any comments containing obscenities, insults, remarks of racist nature, advertising, calls for violence, and also comments consisting only of emoticons and the like.

5. Jury Voting Rules

The Professional Jury and the Prestigio Jury are lead by Viktoria Kletskova, Internet Marketing Coordinator at Prestigio. The Jury shall take into account the theme of submitted entries and relation to the Prestigio brand.

6. Contest Stages and Terms

• Contest term: 15 September – 30 November 2009 (inclusively)
• Submission deadline: 15 November
• Voting via website: 15-22 November
• Jury voting: 15 -29 November
• Declaration of the poll: 1 December.

7. Rules of Entry Submissions

Author has to submit a digital version of the photo via the website http://art.prestigio.com (Authors’ Entry) or by sending it to the following email address: contests@prestigio.com

8. Entry Requirements

The Jury will only accept completed original photos, as well as those meeting the purposes and goals of the Contest, its theme and priorities. The photos submitted should be executed on a high artistic and technological level.

When submitting an entry, authors must also send a scanned copy of the signed Copyright Release to contests@prestigio.com. The form is available for download at the Contest website http://art.prestigio.com and http://www.prestigio.com. The photos which are not accompanied by the signed Copyright Release will not be accepted.

The photos for the online gallery must be presented in one of the following formats: JPG and/or TIF, and with a size of not exceeding 2MB.

The authors must provide the Contest’s organizers with the original pictures upon request. The original pictures must have a resolution of at least 300dpi and a size of an A5 page (148x210mm).

Photographs featuring materials of erotic and/or pornographic nature, artworks executed or published with infringement of third party copyrights, or of other current legislation, will not be accepted by the Contest’s organizers.

An entrant, who has been exposed for plagiarism or use of another person's ideas, shall be permanently disqualified and shall not be allowed to further participate in the Contest.

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’s 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 Contest organizers’ discretion, the course of the Contest can be widely covered on various information websites and in mass media.

10. Applicable legislation

These Rules, as well as all rights and duties of the parties of 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.

11. Use of Author’s Materials

The term “author’s materials” denotes any materials which the contestant or the participant uploads to the Contest’s website 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 non-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;

~       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’s materials on the websites http://art.prestigio.com,  www.prestigio.com, www.prestigio.ru (and all other Internet resources owned by Prestigio), 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 copyrights.

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.

12. Disclosure of Information

These rules and the information on the course of the Contest are openly published at the Contest’s 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