VERDICT of SILENCE 2012

The organizer of the competition and its duration

1. The competition is organized by Fundacja Tranzyt, based in Poznan, KRS0000339073, as part of the 3^rd  LIGATURA International Comics Culture Festival.

2. Contest entries can be submitted until 31^st March 2012 (until 23:59) with the application form available at:

• for SILENCE competition: www.ligatura.eu/eng/silence

3. Projects submitted after the deadline will not take part in the Competition.


4. Winners will be announced on 21^st April during an award ceremony.


5. The competition is international.

Terms and Conditions of participation in the contest


Participation in the competition - terms and conditions
. The Competition is open to any person (hereinafter referred to as Participant) that fulfills jointly all of the following conditions:

• knows and accepts all the rules and regulations of the competition,
• is not the Organizer’s employee or a member of the Organizer’s immediate family nor is directly involved in the organization of the competition,
• is 18 years of age at the date of the deadline,
• meets other conditions set out herein.

2. The subjects of the competitions are, respectively:  the best children/teen comic book and the best silent comic.

3. There is no limit to the number of submitted works.


4. There is no limit to the number of pages of submitted works.


5. Contest entries must be submitted through the entry form in English.


6. When submitting work of more than eight boards,  the application form must be accompanied by an excerpt from the work, while the whole work must be sent through one of the file transferring sites.

7. Submitted works cannot be previously published in print in Poland.

8. Submitted works can be previously published on the Internet.

9. Submitted works can be in any technique or format.

10. Participation in the contest stands for the Participant’s agreement for the processing of personal data by the Organizers  to the extent necessary for the proper co-operation with the Organizer and to the ends and purposes of the Competition.

11. Submission of the project is tantamount to the Participan’t declaration that s/he is entitled to the full personal and property copyright (including the subsidiary copyright) of the submitted works, and that the submitted works are his/her individual and completely original creation and are in no way encumbered with  rights established for the benefit of third parties, are in no part plagiarized, are not copies, and do not contain fragments of any other works.

12. Everyone has the right to report violations of the regulations to the Organizer.


The Jury

1. The works will be assessed by the Jury composed of:

SILENCE: Tom Gauld, Andrzej Klimowski, Erik Kriek, Tim Molly.

2. The Jury is fully independent and autonomous, and its decisions are final and undisputable.

Awards

1. 1 main prizes, in the form of: 1000 PLN.

2. Honorable mention, in the form of in-kind prizes.

3. The Organizer reserves the right not to grant some, or all, of the prizes.

Copyright

1. The Organizer reserves the right to present and publish the submitted works without any copyright fee at the Organizer’s website www.ligatura.eu , www.centrala.org.pl , www.fundacja-tranzyt.blogspot.com and in the Ligatura Festival’s catalogue.

2. On submitting the works, the Participants acknowledge that awarding them will result in their granting of a non-exclusive and gratuitous license to the Organizer for the purposes of the Competition, for the period of five years, and spanning the following:

• solidifying and multiplying the works by means of typography, printing, reprography, information technology, photography, digital processing, multimedia, audiovisual, audio and phonic techniques and their variations, including computer data storage,
• publicizing the works by means of public performances, exhibitions, screenings, transmissions and broadcasts on all kinds of carriers, including banners advertising, VHS, VCD and DVD, and with the use of various multimedia techniques,
• publicizing the works in computer networks, including the Internet, in such a way that individuals could access the images in a time and place of their choice.

3. The aforementioned publication may be carried out:

• to promote the Organizer in connection to the Competition, and in particular in the form of T-shirts, posters, exhibitions, advertising brochures, notices, regardless of their format, as well as in other media: informative or advertising, especially as audio, audio-visual, multimedia and phonic adveritsements,
• after preserving in print and electronic form, also as part of a  collective publication, and being publicized in such form in computer networks and the Internet.

4. The granting of license by the awarded Participant is not tantamount to the obligation of the Organizer to use the work in the above-mentioned ways.

Final provisions

1. The Organizer shall not be held responsible for any delays  resulting from the actions of shipping companies, electronic mail and/or network services that the Participants choose to use.

2. The Organizer shall not be held responsible for the third parties or other Participants providing false and/or incomplete information about the Competition and for the damage caused by the Participants providing false or out-of-date data and/or statements.

3. The Participant is responsible in particular for the infringement of personal property, copyright, neighbouring rights and subsidiaries to third parties in the works. The Participant is obliged to cover all costs of defending the rights of the Organizer associated with such breach and with the gratification of the aggrieved party.

4. The final interpretation of these regulations pertains to the Organizer.