Intellectual Property Rights The Winner, the Finalists and any participant (registered entrant) to THE PRIZE declare on their honour that the Work they submit is original and has not won any previous awards, and that it does not Jury Winning Work violate or infringe trademarks, Copyrights, Design or Model, or any other industrial and/or Intellectual Property Rights, or any third party rights, including image, patronym rights and/ or rights over the voices. Also the Winner, the Finalists and any participant to THE PRIZE expressly declare and guarantee that the Work and information entered in the Prize fully meets the stipulations of current legislation on the rights to honour, personal and family privacy and reputation, protection of personal data, as well as industrial and intellectual property and any other regulations that may apply.
The winner, the Finalists and any participant to THE PRIZE also declare that they have not licensed, assigned nor transferred the ownership over the Intellectual Property Rights, nor the material title/property of the work entered in THE PRIZE, in whole or in part to any third party from its creation until the end of the License period. Participants to THE PRIZE must notify THE PRIZE of any changes in the information about the work presented.
The Winner, the Finalists and any participant to THE PRIZE agree and undertake to respond to any judicial, extrajudicial or any other claim relating to copyright or any other rights, which may be brought against THE PRIZE and HAND & LOCK, and consequently hold the aforementioned harmless from any liability with regard to the provisions of these Rules of Entry.
The Winner and Finalists agree to automatically grant to HAND & LOCK, upon disclosure of the Experts Panel´s decision as to the Finalist works selected, an exclusive worldwide license, free of charge, for a period of 1 year on all Intellectual Property Rights related to their Work, (hereafter ´the License´) in view of the Exhibition, its preparation and related communication including the Catalogue, as well as in view of communicating on the Prize, and the project related to the Prize, and in a general manner, HAND & LOCK’s activities, in particular: the right to reproduce the Work (adapting right included) using any and all methods; the right to represent the Work in all media and using any methods, known and unknown to date; and full rights to translate and subtitle the Works in any language if needed, in whole or in part. The License shall benefit HAND & LOCK and any person or legal entity designated by HAND & LOCK, including its distributors, licensees, and commercial partners and within the HAND & LOCK LLC to which HAND & LOCK belong. HAND & LOCK AND HAND & LOCK LLC shall be also authorized to use directly or indirectly, in perpetuity, worldwide, directly or indirectly, the Works for internal Company presentations, for internal communications, for external corporate information, for cultural, training, teaching, or information purposes, for internal and external retrospectives, internal and external exhibitions and books, including corresponding promotional materials. HAND & LOCK reserve the right not to use the Works in whole or in part. During the term of the License, HAND & LOCK only authorize the Winner and the Finalists to use the Works on their personal Website and personal social network pages for professional reference purposes, and only after first disclosure of the Works by HAND & LOCK. Any other use of the Works shall be subject to HAND & LOCK’S prior written authorisation. Any mutual reference between the participants, Winner or Finalists, HAND & LOCK that could be considered detrimental to its image and/or reputation is also prohibited, before, during and after the term of the License. Any participant in THE PRIZE acknowledges that, in taking part in it (and in the Exhibition and its communication as regards the Winner and Finalists), he/she acquires no Intellectual Property Rights whatsoever on any sign or creation belonging to HAND & LOCK, including but not limited to the Trademarks, Designs, Copyrights, and that any use of the said signs or creations can give rise to civil and criminal proceedings, furthermore any photograph used must give credit to HAND & LOCK stating ‘THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS COPYRIGHTED TO THE HAND & LOCK PRIZE FOR EMBROIDERY’