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RIGHTS TO USE ENTRIES / RESIDUALS CLAUSE
By entering this Contest, you are granting to Microsoft an irrevocable, royalty free, fully paid up, worldwide license to use, review, assess, test and otherwise analyze your entry and all its content in connection with the Contest. You’re also giving Microsoft permission to feature your entry and any associated materials, and any medium including, but not limited to, website, television, radio and/or printed materials to promote this Contest and Microsoft products.
Further, you understand that Microsoft cannot control the incoming information you will disclose to our representatives in the course of entering, or what our representatives will remember about your entry. You also understand that Microsoft will not restrict work assignments of representatives who have had access to your entry. By entering this Contest, you agree that use of information in our representatives’ unaided memories in the development or deployment of Microsoft products or services does not create liability for Microsoft under this agreement or trade secret law. You will not receive any compensation or credit for use of your entry, other than what is described in these Official Rules.
Other than what is set forth above, Microsoft is not claiming any license or ownership rights to your entry.
Microsoft retains an exclusive first right of refusal on acquisition of any of the resulting designs submitted into the competition at negotiated rate. Should Microsoft or related party wish to acquire the rights to produce or otherwise utilize a design beyond the immediate scope of the Competition, those involved in the direct results of the work agree to assign all rights, including patent rights, in the work to Microsoft or the related party for compensation at a level comparable to a normal professional fee. IDSA shall not be involved in any dispute and shall be held harmless and free of any liability in any dispute regarding intellectual property rights or compensation or payment for any professional competition or program that it endorses.
The Applications or any part of the Entry must not be, in whole or in part, governed by an Excluded License. An Excluded License is any license that requires, as a condition of use, modification and/or distribution of software subject to the Excluded License, that such software and/or other software combined and/or distributed with such software be (a) disclosed or distributed in source code form; (b) licensed for the purpose of making derivative works; or (c) redistributable at no charge. Permission is also granted for Sponsor to promote winning entries in perpetuity in any medium it may see fit including, but not limited to, website, television, radio and/or printed materials. Entrants shall not receive any compensation or credit for use of entries, other than that disclosed in these rules. Entrants agree to be bound by the terms of these conditions.
PUBLIC VOTING FOR ENTRIES:
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