Every contest has rules and regulations. Here are ours!
Complete Rules:MNN, a new environmental site launching in early 2009, is announcing an internship for college journalists.
Entrants must be duly enrolled students (graduate and undergraduate-level) at a university or college (two-year or four-year) at the time the entry is published. All work must be entirely student-produced. Judging will be done by professional journalists who are members of MNN.
Awards will be granted in the following categories:
• Video: As many entries as you like, two to four minutes each.
• Blogs: Entrants may submit up to three samples of work. Commentary must focus on an issue relating to the environment.
Winners will be announced by February 15, 2009.
Judges will name campus-by-campus winners, but reserve the right to not name winners in any category.
For videos:
- Videos need to be between two to four minutes and content appropriate for the general public.
- Videos will be evaluated on content and creativity and not only production quality.
- There's no limit the number of videos you can submit.
Here’s how to upload your entry:
- If you haven’t already, create a free account at YouTube.
- Once registered with YouTube, upload your video to your account. Add "MNN Contest" to your tags.
- E-mail the URL of your video to contact@mnn.com.
- We’ll add it to our page.
Voila!
For bloggers:
- Blogs should be between 400 and 600 words each.
- Blogs will be evaluated on content, voice and writing skills.
- Up to three entries will be accepted per student.
ELIGIBILITYThis contest is open only to legal residents of the United States, 18 years of age or older at time of entry. Employees and their immediate families, including household members, of the Mother Nature Network ("Sponsor") and its parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, divisions, advertising and promotion agencies are not eligible.
CONTEST RULESNO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER. TO ENTER THE CONTEST YOU MUST BE 18 YEARS OR OLDER AT THE DATE OF ENTRY. FOR SUBMISSIONS BY INDIVIDUALS UNDER 18, A PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN MUST AUTHORIZE THE ENTRY PRIOR TO SUBMISSION. ENTRANTS MAY ENTER AS MANY ORIGINAL VIDEOS AS THEY WISH. LIMIT ONE PRIZE PER ENTRANT. THE CONTEST IS OPEN TO US AND FOREIGN RESIDENTS FROM ALL AROUND THE WORLD. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.
CONTEST DESCRIPTIONThe Mother Nature Network, an MNN company, is offering you a chance to enter a promotion described below as part of our COLLEGE CORRESPONDENT CONTEST for the chance to win cool prizes.
ACCEPTATIONParticipation constitutes entrant's full and unconditional agreement to and acceptance of these official rules. By participating in the contest, entrant is representing and warranting that he/she has read and understood, and agrees to be bound by, these rules. Including the guides and rules referred to herein, these official rules constitute the entire agreement between the entrant and MNN in relation to the contest. They govern the entrant's participation and supersede any prior agreements between entrant and MNN and relating to the contest.
ELIGIBILITYParticipants must be at least 18 years of age by the time of submission. Individuals under 18 years of age will need a parent/legal guardian must authorize the entry prior to submission. Employees of MNN and their respective parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers, advertising agencies, and families, and persons living in the same household as such employees, are not eligible to participate. The COLLEGE CORRESPONDENT CONTEST video and blogging contest is subject to all national, federal, state and local laws and regulations.
CONTEST PERIODThe COLLEGE CORRESPONDENT CONTEST video contest runs from October 23-January 16, 2009. All video submissions must be submitted online and received by 11:59 PST on January 16, 2009. No new entries will be accepted after this date.
HOW TO ENTERTo enter the COLLEGE CORRESPONDENT CONTEST contest, the entrant must go to
http://www.youtube.com/MNN (the "Submit a Video Page") and (a) complete and submit the online registration form with your name, age, address, city, state, zip, phone number, e-mail address and active YouTube link to your COLLEGE CORRESPONDENT CONTEST video submission. Each entrant must be the named and authorized account holder of the submitted email address in connection with that video entry submission. Without limiting any representations or warranties, MNN has the right (though not the obligation) to, in MNN's sole discretion, reject or remove from the websites, servers and computer systems any work that, in MNN’s reasonable opinion, violates these official rules or any applicable policy or is in any way harmful or objectionable.
VIDEO SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTSBy entering, each Entrant represents and warrants that the submission is: (a) wholly original; (b) does not incorporate or include anything that would require the consent of any third party; and (c) does not violate any copyright, trademark, publicity right, privacy right, or any other right of any third party. Video submissions must be no longer than three minutes in length or less. The only accepted file format for consideration will be an active YouTube link. Individual submissions will only be accepted (i.e., no group or team submissions).
JUDGING AND SELECTION OF WINNERSAll entries will be judged by MNN based on concept, originality, script/screenplay and production quality, and award winners that best convey the environmental spirit. Finalists will be selected on January 25, 2009 and the winners will be announced on or about January 30, 2009. If a winner cannot be notified within five (5) days after his selection, or in the event of non-compliance with any of these requirements, the prize will be forfeited, and the entrant having the next highest score will be deemed the winner. The decisions of the judging panel are final on all matters relating to the contest. Limit one prize per entrant.
Winners will be required to have signed and returned to MNN an affidavit of eligibility, liability/publicity release and royalty-free license within ten (10) days of the date of winning notification, otherwise the prize (if applicable) will be forfeited, and the Entrant having the next highest score will be deemed to be the winner.
PRIZESThe prizes are nontransferable and no substitution by winner or cash equivalent is permitted. MNN may substitute prize for one of equal or greater value at its sole discretion.
• The five grand-prize winners will receive an all-expenses-paid trip to New York City for a dinner with Chuck Leavell and some of the nation’s top media and environmental visionaries
• All of our winners will receive a new
Flip Ultra Camcorder.
• Every winner will have his or her own channel at the Mother Nature Network, be promoted throughout our site and our partner sites, and be an integral part of our news organization. www.MNN.com/YourName!
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTYBy signing the permissions section on the COLLEGE CORRESPONDENT CONTEST video contest submission entry form and entering the contest you agree to give MNN permission to use your name and likeness for promotional purposes without further compensation. Entrant hereby irrevocably grants, transfers, sells, assigns and conveys to MNN, and each of their respective successors and assigns, all present and future right, title and interest of every kind and nature whatsoever, including, without limitation, all copyrights, and all rights incidental, subsidiary, ancillary or allied thereto (including, without limitation, all derivative rights), in and to the Submissions for exploitation throughout the universe, in perpetuity, by means of any and all media and devices whether now known or hereafter devised (including the right to publish and display Submissions for purposes of advertising, publicity and/or trade, in whole or in part).
Entrant agrees and acknowledges that MNN, as well as other contestants in this contest, may now or in the future work on or develop an idea or concept for any future media and all formats work similar to your video submission, whether now known or hereafter devised. As such, the entrant hereby holds MNN harmless and indemnify us against any course of action for similarities in any writing work.
MNN reserves the right to promote and publicize, through any means available to us, the progress, development, process, news, and success of all entries, in whole or in part, to promote MNN, the COLLEGE CORRESPONDENT CONTEST video contest and future video contests. In addition, MNN shall have the right, in their sole discretion, to edit, composite, morph, scan, duplicate, or alter the Submissions for any purpose which they deem necessary or desirable, without the need for any further compensation by them, and each Entrant irrevocably waives any and all so-called moral rights they may have in the Submission submitted by him or her.
VIDEO AND CONTENT REQUIREMENTSThe blog should be approximately 500 words and can include imagery and video, if wanted. The Video must be at least two (2) minutes long and not longer than four (4) minutes in length and both must meet the following criteria:
(a) It must not be derogatory, offensive, threatening, defamatory, disparaging, libelous or contain any content that is in appropriate, indecent, sexual, profane, indecent, tortuous, slanderous, discriminatory in any way, or that promotes hatred or harm against any group or person, or otherwise does not comply with the theme and spirit of the Contest.
(b) It must not contain content, material or any element that is unlawful, or otherwise in violation of or contrary to all applicable federal, state, or local laws and regulations the laws or regulations in any state where video is created.
(c) It must not contain any content, material or element that displays any third party advertising, slogan, logo, trademark or otherwise indicates a sponsorship or endorsement by a third party, commercial entity or that is not within the spirit of the Contest, as determined by Sponsor, in its sole discretion.
(d) It must not reference any person, group, or organizations without their written permission.
(e) It must be an original, unpublished work that does not contain, incorporate or otherwise use any content, material or element that is owned by a third party or entity.
(f) It cannot contain any content, element, or material that violates a third party’s publicity, privacy or intellectual property rights.
(g) It cannot be longer than five (5) minutes. If it is longer than this, only the first five (5) minutes will be evaluated.
MNN reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any entrant who submits a Video that does not meet the Video Requirements.
WINNER’S LISTYou may request a list of winners after March 1, 2009, but before August 28, 2009, by sending a self addressed stamped envelope to:
Michael Jacobson
MNN
191 Peachtree Street
Suite 4075
Atlanta Georgia 30303
