"THE BONNIE & CLYDE COLLECTION:
MOST WANTED LIST CONTEST”
OFFICIAL CONTEST RULES
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN.
CONTEST OVERVIEW: This is an online skill contest (the “Contest”).
There will be a series of four (4) distinct and separate Contest entry
periods each lasting one week. Each week one (1) finalist will be chosen
by the general public to proceed to the final round of judging. The initial
Contest period begins on Tuesday, March 4, 2008 at 9:01 PM Pacific Time
(PT) and ends at 9:00 PM PT on Tuesday, March 11, 2008. Subsequent weekly
Contests will follow each Monday beginning at 9:01 PM PT and end one week
later on Tuesday at 9:00 PM PT. The last Contest will be held from March
18, 2008 until April 1, 2008. The object of the Contest is to have entrants
(“You”) create their own “Most Wanted” poster
at www.bonnieandclydemostwanted.com by using a provided template and uploading
a photograph of You (the “Photograph”) in character costume
together with a fictional character bio or persona created by You (“GANGSTER
PERSONA), (collectively, the “Promotional Piece”).
ELIGIBILITY: To enter the Contest, entrant (“You” or “Participant”)
must be a legal resident of one of the fifty (50) United States or the
District of Columbia, and must be 18 years of age or older. The Grand
Prize winner must be 21 years of age or older in order to participate
in any gambling activities associated with the awarding of the Grand Prize.
Employees of The US Sweepstakes & Fulfillment Company (“the
Sponsor”) and, Warner Home Video and their affiliated companies,
subsidiaries, vendors, and their respective advertising and promotion
agencies, and the immediate families (defined as parents, siblings, spouses
and children) and household members of each such employees (collectively,
the “Contest Entities”) are not eligible.
TO PARTICIPATE: Visit www.bonnieandclydemostwanted.com (the “Website”)
and complete all entry fields to register. Create Your own Promotional
Piece, which will consist of two parts: (a) an uploaded “in-costume”
Photograph of You that is placed in a provided “Most Wanted”
poster template; and (b) a fictional gangster character bio or persona
which You will create and place on the ”Most Wanted” poster.
Each photograph must be a picture of Yourself in-character and may not
include any other people. No other content will be permitted. Once the
Promotional Piece is complete, Participants will submit their Promotional
Piece and the Sponsor will post it on the Website’s gallery page
for public viewing and voting. All Participants will be required to agree
to and accept the Submission Agreement, which can be viewed through the
registration page. Limit one (1) entry per person for the entire four
(4) week Contest period. Any attempt by any Participant to obtain more
than the stated number of entries by using multiple/different email addresses,
identities, registrations and logins, or any other methods will void that
Participant’s entries and that Participant shall be disqualified.
In the event of a dispute as to any registration, the authorized account
holder of the email address used to register will be deemed to be the
Participant. The “authorized account holder” is the natural
person assigned an email address by an Internet access provider, online
service provider or other organization responsible for assigning email
addresses for the domain associated with the submitted address. The potential
winner may be required to show proof of being the authorized account holder.
GENERAL PUBLIC JUDGING: Each week for a total of
four (4) weeks, the general public, must vote for one (1) Promotional
Piece that receives their highest score after viewing each submitted Promotional
Piece on the Gallery pages of the Contest Website. Scores should be based
on originality and creativity. Limit one vote per IP address per week.
The Promotional Piece that receives the highest number of votes in each
of the four (4) weekly Contests will be declared a weekly finalist. Unfair
voting or “ballot stuffing”, including multiple votes by the
same individual for a single Promotional Piece may result in disqualification
of that piece, at the Sponsor’s sole discretion. The top four (4)
weekly finalist’s Promotional Pieces will then be evaluated by a
panel of experts.
EXPERT’S JUDGING CRITERIA: A). Creativity
50% B). Originality 50%
WINNER: A panel of experts will judge the four
(4) weekly finalist’s Promotional Pieces using the Expert’s
Judging Criteria. The finalist with the highest score will be determined
to be the Grand Prize winner. Any ties will be determined using the Creativity/Originality
criteria. The Grand Prize winner will be selected on or about April 4,
2008.
GRAND PRIZE: There is one (1) Grand Prize of a
trip for two (2) to Primm Valley Casino which will include round-trip
coach airfare for two from a major airport nearest the winner’s
home, hotel accommodations (double-occupancy) for 4-days/3-nights, transportation
to the hotel from the airport and return, Approximate Retail Value (“ARV”)
of the Grand Prize package is $2,500. Winner must schedule and complete
travel no later than September 30, 2008. Travel dates are subject to availability,
and some restrictions and blackout periods may apply. Winner must be 21
years of age older to enter the gambling casino. All other expenses not
specifically mentioned herein, including but not limited to: food and
beverages, local ground transportation, telephone, in-room charges, and
gratuities are the responsibility of the winner. Winner and travel companion,
who must also be at least 18 years of age, must travel on the same itinerary.
Travel companion will be required to complete and return a liability release
before travel commences. Travel companion must be 21 years of age or older
to enter the gambling casino. Prize is not transferable and no substitutions
are allowed, except at the sole discretion of the Sponsor. Sponsor reserves
the right to issue all or part of the Grand Prize in the form of a Gift
Card of Sponsor’s choice.
RIGHTS AND OWNERSHIP: Participants acknowledge and agree that all rights
in the WHV Content made available for use in the Promotional Pieces including,
without limitation, all copyrights, trademarks and other intellectual
property rights, are owned or licensed by Warner Home Video and its affiliates,
successors or assigns (“Owner”) and that by taking any action
permitted by these Official Contest Rules including, but not limited to,
submitting a Promotional Piece, Participants shall not acquire any rights
in the WHV Content or any other intellectual property rights owned or
licensed by Owner, and that all such rights and related goodwill are,
and shall remain, vested in Owner. By submitting a Promotional Piece to
Sponsor, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is
hereby acknowledged, including, without limitation, the right to have
it entered in this Contest, Participants irrevocably and immediately agree
to convey, assign, deliver and transfer any and all right, title, and
interest in and to the Promotional Piece to Owner in perpetuity, including,
but not limited to, the copyright, renewal rights and moral rights in
the Promotional Piece, as well as the right to use, publish or create
derivative works from the Promotional Piece (in whole or in part, with
or without attribution to Participant and /or author, as applicable) worldwide
in any form or medium. Participant further agrees to execute all documents
and take all actions deemed necessary by Sponsor to effect, record or
perfect such assignment. Participant expressly disclaims any and all ownership
rights in the Promotional Piece and acknowledges and agrees that Owner
or its assigns have an unrestricted right to use the Promotional Piece,
(or materials or ideas similar to the Promotional Piece), in whole or
in part, worldwide in perpetuity in any medium presently known or hereafter
devised, now and in the future, without notice, compensation or other
obligation to Participant or to any other person, even if the Promotional
Piece is not a prize winner.
TERMS/CONDITIONS: Entries become the sole property
of Warner Home Video and will not be acknowledged or returned. By participating,
all Participants agree to be bound by these Official Rules and the decisions
of the Sponsor, which shall be final and binding on all matters relating
to the Contest. The Promotional Piece must consist solely of the WHV Content,
together with Your photograph and Original Message. You must be the sole
and complete owner of all elements of Your photograph and Original Message,
excluding the WHV Content, and all related rights, including all rights
of privacy, publicity, copyright and other intellectual property rights.
Your photograph and Original Message as contained in the Promotional Piece,
excluding the WHV Content, must be created solely and exclusively by You
, must be completely original, no other person can have collaborated with
you in creating it, and no funds, resources, or other contributions of
any other person can be used in creating, displaying or submitting it.
CONTENT RESTRICTIONS: Promotional Pieces submitted to Sponsor shall not
contain any of the following: (a) obscene, lewd, offensive or vulgar material;
(b) material that is owned or licensed by any other party or that violates
or infringes another party’s rights, including but not limited to
any privacy, publicity, copyright or other intellectual property rights
(i.e. no third party content including any copyrighted material, third
party trademarks, and names/likenesses of third parties); (c) excluding
the WHV Content, material previously published submitted into any competition;
(d) material containing commercial content; (e) material that is hateful,
tortious, defamatory, slanderous or libelous; (f) material that promotes
bigotry, racism, hatred or harm against any group or individual or promotes
discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability,
sexual orientation or age; and (g) material that is unlawful, in violation
of, or contrary to, the laws or regulations in any state in which the
Promotional Piece is created.
Failure of Participant to comply with the above
restrictions (collectively, the "Content Restrictions"), as
determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion, will result in disqualification.
Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify, refuse
to post or take down, at any time, any entry for any reason.
CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION: The Grand Prize winner
(the “Potential Winner”) will be notified by e-mail ("Prize
Notification"), and must provide by return e-mail, within 10 days
of the date of the Prize Notification (the "Deadline") the Potential
Winner’s full name and a mailing address (“Mailing Information”).
The mailing address must be a street address (no P.O. Boxes). If the Potential
Winner does not provide the Mailing Information in response to the Prize
Notification by the Deadline, the Potential Winner will be disqualified
and an alternate Potential Winner will be selected as determined by Sponsor
in its discretion and will be required to execute and return an Affidavit
of Eligibility, a Liability Release, and where allowable, a Publicity
Release, within ten (10) days after issuance of written notification.
Said releases grant the Sponsor the right to confirm the validity of Participant’s
entry, to use winner’s name and likeness in all publicity and marketing
activities associated with this Contest, without further compensation,
and to use, reprint, adapt, revise, modify, reproduce and/or publish the
Promotional Piece. Noncompliance with any of the release requirements
outlined above may result in disqualification and selection of an alternate
winner. All Participants agree that the Contest Entities shall have no
liability and will be “held harmless” by Participants and
Winners for any liability, loss, injury or damage due to participation
in this Contest and/or acceptance and use or misuse of the prize offered.
Winners will be solely responsible for federal, state and local taxes
associated with the prize, if applicable. All federal, state, and local
laws apply. Sponsor and its agencies are not responsible for online entries
that are not received due to technical/transmission difficulties beyond
their reasonable control, as stated in “Limitations of Liability”
paragraph. By entering, all Participants agree to be bound by these Official
Rules and the decisions of the Sponsor, which shall be final and binding.
CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT BY A PARTICIPANT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEBSITE
OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THIS CONTEST MAY BE A VIOLATION
OR CRIMINAL OR CIVIL LAWS. SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, SPONSOR RESERVES
THE RIGHT TO DISQUALIFY SUCH PARTICIPANT AND SEEK DAMAGES FROM ANY SUCH
PARTICIPANT TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY: Contest Entities are not responsible for any
incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by website users or
by any of the equipment or programming associated with, or utilized in,
this Contest, or by any technical or human error which may occur in the
processing and/or transmissions in the Contest. Contest Entities assume
no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect,
delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft
or destruction or authorized access to, or alteration of, entries. Contest
Entities are not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction
of any telephone network or lines, computer on-line systems, servers or
providers, computer equipment, software, failure of e-mail due to technical
problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website or combination
thereof, including injury or damage to participants or to any other person’s
computer related to, or resulting from, participating or downloading materials
in this contest. If, for any reason, the Contest is not capable of running
as planned, including, without limitation, infection by computer virus,
bugs, worms, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures,
or any other causes beyond the control of the Sponsor which corrupt or
affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct
of this contest, Contest Entities reserve the right at its sole discretion
to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Contest, and select winners
from all entries received up to the time of termination.
WINNER’S LIST: For the name of the winner, send a self-addressed,
stamped envelope by March 29, 2008 to: "THE BONNIE & CLYDE COLLECTION:
MOST WANTED LIST CONTEST” Winner Confirmation, PO Box 25497, Rochester,
NY 14625
CONTEST SPONSOR: The US Sweepstakes & Fulfillment Company, 625 Panorama
Trail, Building #2, Suite 100, Rochester, NY 14625.
CONTEST ADMINISTRATOR: The US Sweepstakes & Fulfillment Company, 625
Panorama Trail, Building #2, Suite 100, Rochester, NY 14625.
CONTEST VOID OUTSIDE THE US AND WHEREVER PROHIBITED BY LAW.
TM & © 2008 Warner Bros. Entertainment
Inc.
Bonnie and Clyde and all related characters and elements are trademarks
of and © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
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