Intel® “Animate This!” Incentive Program Description
The Intel® Visual Computing Developer Community has launched the Artist / Animator Resource Area. This section of community has tutorials, blogs, and discussion forums for digital artists and animators who develop digital content for visual computing applications.
This Incentive Program (the “Program”) encourages digital artists and animators to read the tutorials in this new area and submit back to the community suggestions on alternate methods or improvements to the techniques proposed in the tutorials. The Program starts August 3, 2009 and will continue up to March 31, 2010.
How To Enter
Read one or all of the tutorials found at the Artist / Animator Resource Area (www.intel.com/software/artist). Then submit your idea and/or suggestion with an accompanying video, image, or screenshot at the program site (http://software.intel.com/en-us/contests/animatethis/contests.php). Your contribution must be related to one or more of the tutorials posted at the Resource Area. Contributions have to be written by the submitter but they can be original work or may be adaptations or extensions of other known methods or techniques in the industry.
Contributions must be received by midnight (U.S. Pacific Standard Time) of the last day of each month to qualify for the incentives for that month. Contributions received beyond that deadline will qualify for incentives for the following month.
By uploading your Contribution, you agree to be bound by the Incentive Program Rules (Rules) set forth in this document. If you do not agree to these Rules, do not submit your Contribution.
To enter you must also register for the Program at http://software.intel.com/en-us/contests/animatethis/contests.php. You will be asked to enter contact information so that Intel can contact you for Program announcements and prize distribution. Your contact information will be treated in accordance with Intel’s privacy policy which you can review at http://www.intel.com/sites/corporate/privacy.htm?iid=homepage+ftr_privacy.
Incentives
Each month five (5) Contributions will be selected to each receive the incentive of a USD $100 online voucher from THE GNOMON WORKSHOP* (http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/), the leader in professional training for artists in the entertainment and design industries. The online voucher can be redeemed worldwide for any tutorial, software, books, or accessories offered at this site.
Criteria and Selection of Incentive Recipients
The five (5) recipients of the incentives for each month will be selected by our Intel panel of community managers and digital artists who are involved in visual computing. Entries will be judged on the following criteria:
(a) Usability / benefit of proposed method -- something your peers can use
(b) Clarity of the method – something your peers can understand
(c) Professional appearance of the method – something that works and contains visuals that will impress your peers
Winners will be notified by email at most fifteen days (15) after the submission deadline. An individual can submit multiple Contributions in a month (or throughout the program) but can only receive a maximum of one (1) incentive every month.
Legal Documents
Privacy Policy, http://www.intel.com/sites/sitewide/en_US/privacy/privacy.htm?iid=ftr+privacy
Terms of Use, http://www.intel.com/sites/corporate/termsofuse.htm
Animate This! Incentive Program Rules (this document).
Intel® Animate This! Incentive Program Rules
1. These rules (including the Intel Privacy Policy and the www.intel.com Terms of Use) govern the Intel® Animate This! Incentive Program (the “Program”) and set out the terms and conditions between Intel Corporation and its affiliates (“Intel” or “us/we”) and each participant (“participant” or “you”).
2. You are eligible to participate in the Program if you have registered for the Program.
3. You must speak, read and understand English and you must be aged 18 years or over or you must obtain the consent of your parents or legal guardian before you participate in the Program. If you apply to register for the Program, if you contribute to the Program or the Intel® SN community once you are registered or if you accept any Program prizes, you accept these rules. Employees of Intel Corporation, its affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies, and the immediate families of each may not enter. This limitation is void where prohibited.
4. The Program is open to participants worldwide. All national and local laws and regulations of the resident’s country of residence apply. Residents of countries under U.S. embargo are not eligible to enter. The Program is void wherever else it is restricted or prohibited by law.
5. We may refuse your Contribution for any good reason.
6. Intel provides you with access to a variety of resources on Intel® SN, including communication forums, documentation, download areas, code samples, videos, blogs, articles and Programs (the “resources”).
7. You agree to submit Contributions to the Program on www.intel.com/software under the following conditions:
a. Intel does not claim ownership of your Contributions to the Program in form of sample code, content, videos, articles or any other Contributions you submit to Intel® SN. By submitting your Contributions, you are granting Intel and its affiliated companies the following worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, unconditional, fully paid-up rights: (1) to make, have made, use, copy, reproduce, modify, and create derivative works of the Contributions, (2) to publicly perform or display, import, broadcast, transmit, distribute (directly and indirectly through multiple tiers), license, offer to sell and sell, rent, lease, or lend copies of the Contributions (and derivative works thereof), (3) to sublicense to third parties the foregoing rights, including the right to sublicense to further third parties, and (4) to publish your name or alias in connection with this Program and your Contributions.
b. Your Contributions to the Program will be available to other participants and to ensure they are safe and freely usable by other participants, you warrant that:
• you own or otherwise have all rights necessary for you to provide the Contributions and grant the rights described above and you do not disclose any information which would constitute a violation of a confidentiality obligation;
• your Contributions do not contain any viruses, worms, spy ware, or other components or instructions that are malicious, deceptive, or designed to limit or harm the functionality of a computer; and
• your Contributions are not subject to license terms that require any software or documentation incorporating or being derived from your Contributions to be licensed to others.
c. Apart from prizes offered as part of the Program, no monetary compensation will be paid for any of your Program Contributions.
8. Intel is not responsible for Program Contributions not received due to lost, failed, delayed or interrupted connections or miscommunications, or other electronic malfunctions. Intel is not responsible for incorrect or inaccurate Contribution information, whether caused by you or any other persons or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Program.
9. You may be required to provide Intel a Taxpayer Identification Number ("TIN") prior to the awarding of any prize. You may be required to sign and return releases of liability, declarations of eligibility, and where lawful, publicity consent agreements, within five (5) days of acknowledged notification. If a selected potential winner cannot be contacted, is ineligible (under these rules or due to a failure to comply with any of the other applicable policies, licenses, rules, and terms of service, fails to claim a prize, or fails to timely return the completed and executed releases/agreements as required), prize may be forfeited and an alternate potential winner may, at Intel’s discretion, be selected. Physical prizes awarded for the winning Contributions will be sent to participants within six (6) weeks from the date of the notification email or confirmation of the winning participant’s physical address, whichever is later.
10. Prizes are personal to the participant submitting the winning Contribution and cannot normally be transferred. All prizes are subject to availability and they may change at any time and Intel may award substitute prizes of equal or greater value. A cash alternative is not available. The winner accepts responsibility for all federal, state and local taxes and fees in connection with the prizes. Taxes, if any, are the sole responsibility of the winning participant, and participants may be issued an IRS Form 1099 for the ARV of any awarded prize. This Program is void where prohibited or restricted by law, and subject to applicable federal, state provincial and local laws.
11. Intel does not provide any warranty on the prizes. To the fullest extent allowable by law, Intel specifically disclaims any representations or warranties, express or implied, regarding the prizes, including any implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose and implied warranties arising from course of dealing or course of performance.
12. We may, on notifying you, immediately suspend or terminate your rights, if you breach these rules or if we reasonably believe that you have submitted a Contribution in violation of these rules.
13. You can withdraw your Contribution at any time by notifying us. If a Contribution is withdrawn your rights to win a prize in this Program are lost.
14. These rules apply to your Contribution and the resources, unless we provide any items to you under more specific terms, in which case those more specific terms will apply to the relevant items. We may make changes to these rules at any time without notice to you. The most current version of the rules can be reviewed on the Intel® SN website. Contributing to the Program or accepting prizes will constitute acceptance of the revised rules.
15. Our only responsibilities with respect to the Program are set out in these rules. These rules prevail in the event of any conflict or inconsistency with any other communications, including advertising or promotional materials.
16. For any feedback or questions regarding the Program or the prizes you can contact Intel by sending a letter, an email, isn.support@intel.com or by participating in the Program discussion forum. http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/ )
Physical address:
Intel Corporation
Software & Services Group - Intel Software Network
5000 W Chandler Boulevard
Chandler, Arizona 85226
17. If Intel improperly denies you any prizes, Intel's entire liability and your sole and exclusive remedy will be limited to a distribution of the equivalent amount of prizes as set forth above. By participating in the Program, you waive any and all rights to bring any claim or action related to such matters in any forum beyond one (1) year after the first occurrence of the kind of act, event, condition or omission upon which the claim or action is based.
18. If for any reason this Program is not capable of running as planned due to infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes beyond the control of Intel which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of this Program, Intel reserves the right at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual who tampers with the Contribution or voting process, and to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Program.
19. Intel 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. Intel is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or telephone lines, computer online systems, servers, or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any e-mail or Contribution to be received by Intel on account of technical problems, human error or traffic congestion on the internet or at any web site, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to participant's or any other person's computer relating to or resulting from participation in this Program or downloading any materials in this Program.
20. The promoter of this Program is Intel. The Program is administered by:
Intel Corporation
2200 Mission College Blvd.
Santa Clara, CA 95052 USA
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