BSG Young Authors Contest
OFFICIAL RULES & REGULATIONS
NO ENTRY FEE. NO PURCHASE OR OBLIGATION NECESSARY TO PLAY OR WIN. MANY WILL ENTER; FEW WILL WIN.
Entry deadline is EXTENDED
TO April 3rd, 2009 at 11:59 p.m. EST.
1. Eligibility: The BSG Young Authors
Contest is open to individuals age 18 or younger. Employees of sponsor and
affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising, promotion, and fulfillment agencies,
immediate family members and persons living in the household are not eligible
to participate in the Contest. Participation in the Contest constitutes
entrant's full and unconditional agreement to and acceptance of these Official
Rules & Regulations. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.
2. To enter without obligation: You may enter the Contest by mailing or faxing up to three story endings along with the BSG Young Author′s Contest Entry Form to:
BSG Young Authors Contest
B*tween Productions, Inc.
1666 Massachusetts Ave., Suite 17
Lexington, MA 02420
Fax: 781-863-8338
Entries must be postmarked no later than April 3, 2009. Use of robotic, automatic, programmed or the like entry methods will void all such entries by such methods. Only three entries per person, household, and/or email address are permitted. Contest entrants submitting more than three stories will only be considered based on the first three stories and no more.
3. Complete submissions must include a fictional story ending (no more than 600 words) that follows and completes the story Orangina′s Travels, as posted on the Beacon Street Girls′ web site, and a complete, filled out BSG Young Authors Contest Entry Form.
4. Judging and awarding of prizes: Odds of winning depend on the number of entries received. Many will enter; few will win. All Contest entries meeting the requirements of these Official Rules and Regulations will be evaluated upon the following criteria: 25% creative writing skill, 25% effort, 25% originality, and 25% appropriate voice and style for the BSG series. Stories will be judged by B*tween Productions staff on or around April 10, 2009, at B*tween's offices. Selections are final and binding. One (1) winner plus five (5) runners-up will be chosen among all entries. Parents of the winner and runners-up will be notified by email.
5. Prizes: One (1) winner will have her Story published in Book 16 of the BSG series (forthcoming in fall 2009) in the Book Extras along with her first and last name and age. The winner may be asked to provide additional information such as a short bio or photo. The first name only, age, state, and country of the winner and runners-up will be posted on the Beacon Street Girls′ web site. The five runners up will each receive two (2) books from the BSG series. By entering, the participant consents for his/her story to be considered for publication on the Web site.
6. Notification of
Winners: The parents of the winner and runners-up will be notified by email
within five (5) business days of the prize awarding. If a selected winner
cannot be contacted, is ineligible, fails to claim a prize, and/or where
applicable an affidavit of eligibility and publicity/liability release is not
received in a timely manner or is incomplete or modified, the prize will be
forfeited. In the event of a dispute regarding who submitted an entry, the
entry will be deemed submitted by the person whose name and address is
specified in the entry.
7. General Rules: By entering, you
agree to be bound by these Official Rules & Regulations and affirm that
your Story is your own original work. The Contest is offered by the sponsor,
which is B*tween Productions, Inc., home of the Beacon Street Girls. All
submissions become the property of B*tween Productions, Inc. Sponsor is not
responsible for late, lost, delayed, damaged, postage-due, incomplete,
illegible, or misdirected entries, responses, or other correspondence, whether
by e-mail or postal mail or otherwise, or for theft or destruction or
unauthorized access or alterations of entry materials, phone, electrical,
network, computer, hardware, software program or transmission malfunctions, failures
or difficulties. By participating and winning a prize, a winner releases
Sponsor, its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, directors, officers, employees,
sponsors, and agents, including advertising and promotion agencies, from any
and all liability with respect to the Contest or the acceptance, possession or
use of any prize, including without limitation (i) any condition caused by
events beyond Sponsor′s control that may cause the Contest to be
disrupted or corrupted; (ii) any injuries, losses, or damages (compensatory,
direct, incidental, consequential or otherwise) of any kind arising in
connection with or as a result of the prize, or acceptance, possession, or use
of the prize, or from participation in the Contest; and (iii) any printing or
typographical errors in any materials associated with the Contest. Sponsor′s
decisions in all respects relative to the Contest are final. Sponsor reserves
the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel, modify or suspend the Contest in
whole or in part, in the event of fraud, technical or other difficulties or if
the integrity of the Contest is compromised, without liability to the entrant.
Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any winner, as determined by Sponsor
in its sole discretion. Void where prohibited or restricted by law. All
federal, state, provincial and local regulations apply.
8: Additional Conditions: Except
where prohibited, by accepting any prize, the winner consents to the use of
her/his name, photo and/or likeness, biographical information, winning entry
and statements attributed to the winner (if true) for advertising and
promotional purposes without additional compensation. All entries become
property of the Sponsor, and none will be acknowledged or returned. We do not
keep any materials longer than necessary to evaluate entries. You are
responsible for keeping your own backup copies of any entries.
By entering a Story ending into the Contest, participant
hereby agrees to comply with the terms and conditions stated herein and
irrevocably grants to the Sponsor the worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive,
unconditional, perpetual and transferable license and right to reproduce,
encode, store, modify, copy, transmit, publish, post, broadcast, display,
publicly perform, adapt, exhibit and otherwise use or reuse, the participant's Story,
in whole or in part, as well as participant's name, throughout the universe, in
any and all media, now known or hereafter devised, alone or as part of other
material of any kind or nature. Without limiting the foregoing, the Sponsor
shall have the right to use and edit the Story in any manner that Sponsors may
determine.
Participant irrevocably grants to the Sponsor and its affiliates, legal
representatives, assigns, agents and licensees, the worldwide, royalty-free,
non-exclusive, sublicensable, unconditional, perpetual and transferable right
and license to use the Story for advertising, promotional or commercial
purposes.
Participant forever waives any rights of privacy, intellectual property rights
and any other legal or moral rights that may preclude the Sponsor′s use
of the participant′s Story or require participant′s permission for the
Sponsor to use the Story for promotional purposes and agrees to never sue or
assert any claim against the Sponsor′s use of the Story.
Participant acknowledges and agrees that (a) the Sponsor has
access to and/or may create or have created literary, film, tape and/or other
materials, ideas and concepts which may be similar or identical to the Story in
theme, idea, plot, format, characters and/or other respects; (b) the
participant will not be entitled to any compensation or other consideration
because of use by the Sponsor of any such similar or identical material, ideas
and/or concepts; and (c) the Sponsor′s use of material containing elements
similar or identical to those contained in the Story shall not obligate the
Sponsor to negotiate with nor entitle participant to any compensation or other
claim.
9: Winner's List, Official Rules &
Regulations: For a list of winners or a copy of these official rules, send
your request and a stamped, self-addressed envelope postmarked by December 31,
2009 to:
BSG Young Author′s Contest
B*tween Productions, Inc.
1666 Massachusetts Ave., Suite 17
Lexington, MA 02420