The 2nd Prestigio International Cartoon Contest.

Contest Rules

1.1 The Theme of the Contest
The entries (submitted cartoons) should illustrate the motto «Funny Hi-Tech in Art». The entries have to be related to computer technologies and/or products and their application in everyday life.

Contest organizers: Prestigio Technologies (Cyprus) Ltd., and Prestigio Europe spol. s.r.o., (Czech Republic). Website: http://www.prestigio.com.

1.2 Prize Fund

Grand prix PMR-701 30GB + US$600
Prestigio prize PMP-501 30 GB + US$400
1st Place Data Safe II 40GB + US$200
2nd Place Leather Data Flash 1GB + US$200
3rd Place Leather Data Flash 1GB + US$100

All winners shall also receive a special figurine symbolizing the contest. Every participant whose entry will be selected for inclusion into the Cartoon Catalogue, will receive a certificate of participation.

1.3 Rules of Identifying Winning Entries
- The Grand-Prix will be awarded to the author of the entry that will score the maximum number of votes in an independent poll at the website http://art.prestigio.com as of 29 March, 2007.

- The special Prestigio Prize will be awarded to the entrant who will score the highest number of points as a result of the Prestigio Jury’s voting. The cartoons considered for this nomination must contain at least one element of the Prestigio brand (product and/or logo and/or slogan). The Prestigio Jury consists of 20 company employees from corporate divisions based in Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Netherlands.

- The first, second and third place winners will be determined by the number of votes by the Professional Jury.

1.4 Voting via site
Any visitor of the website http://art.prestigio.com will be able to vote one time per day for one entry. Every voter will be required to leave a comment at the website in English related to the entry. The Contest organizers reserve the right to remove the comments containing obscenities, insults, remarks of racist nature, advertising, calls for violence. Such comments will be removed without notice and explanations. The vote submitted for the entry with such a comment will be automatically subtracted from the entry’s voting score.

1.5 Prestigio Jury Voting Rules
The Prestigio Jury consists of Prestigio employees based in various offices and regions. The Jury is headed by Viktoria Kletskova, Prestigio Internet marketing coordinator. The Jury also includes corporate designers, marketing and brand managers. The Jury shall take into account the theme of submitted entries, sense of humour, and relation to the Prestigio brand.

1.6 Professional Jury Voting Rules
The Professional Jury includes:

Mikhail Zlatkovskiy - cartoonist
Igor Varchenko – cartoonist
Sergey Kulmeshkenov is the winner of Prestigio Cartoon Contest 2006 (Grand prix)
Yuriy Ochkovskiy is the winner of Prestigio Cartoon Contest 2006 (First place)

The marking of entries by the Jury shall be based on the personal evaluation of the artwork’s theme and its relevance to the theme of the Contest.

1.7 Contest Stages and Terms

Contest term: 19 February – 1 April, 2007
Submission deadline: 24 March
Voting via website: 25 – 29 March
Announcement of the results: 1 April

1.8 Rules of Entry Submissions
Any author can submit either a digital or a print version of the artwork.

1.8.1 Digital Artwork Submission
Digital artworks can be submitted either via the website http://art.prestigio.com (Authors’ Entry) or by sending it to the following email address: art@prestigio.com

1.8.2 Print Artwork Submission
Any author can submit the artwork by regular mail to one of the following Contest Entry Centres:

Prestigio Europe, spol. s r.o.
Tichonická 29
104 00 Praha 22 - Uhříněves
Czech Republic
Attn: Ms. Simona Blumentritova

Prestigio Russia
Business-centre "Vereyskaya Plaza"
Office 8, building 134a, 29 Vereyskaya Str.
121357 Moscow, Russia
Attn: Mrs. Tatiana Lazutina

Prestigio Technologies Cyprus
Diamond Court, 43 Kolonakiou Str.
Ayios Athanasios, 4103 Lemesos
P.O.Box 50231, 3602 Lemesos
CYPRUS
Attn: Mr. Slavi Slavchev

1.9 Entry Requirements
The Jury will only accept completed original graphic products matching the definition of Cartoon, as well as meeting the purposes and goals of the Contest, its theme and priorities. The artworks submitted to the Contest should be executed on a high artistic and technological level.

The print version of the artwork must be executed on an A3 sheet of paper (420 x 297 mm). The author must enclose the signed Contract and Agreement which are available for download at the Contest website http://art.prestigio.com. The artworks which are not accompanied by the signed Contract and Agreement will not be accepted. All artworks must arrive at Contest Entry Centres no later than 26 March, 2007. The Organizers cannot be hold liable for any damage or loss of entries incurred during the delivery. The submitted artworks will not be returned to authors.

When submitting the entry via email, the authors must attach a scanned copy of the signed Agreement which is available for download at the Contest website http://art.prestigio.com. The artworks which are not accompanied by the signed Agreement will not be accepted. The artworks must be presented in one of the following formats: jpg/gif/tif with resolution of no less than 300dpi and having the size of no more than 2MB.

The following types of cartoons will not be accepted for participation in the Contest:
materials of erotic and/or pornographic nature;
artworks executed (or published) with infringement of third party copyrights, or of other current legislation.

The Contestants who have been exposed of plagiarism or use of other person's ideas, shall be permanently disqualified and shall not be allowed to further participate in the Contest.

1.10 Contest Media Coverage
The course of the Contest will be highlighted at the site http://art.prestigio.com and the site www.prestigio.com. At Prestigio discretion the Contest can also be highlighted at other Internet resources of the company, including through continuous exposure of all entries in the Internet. At the discretion of the Contest organizers, the course of the Contest can be widely covered at information sites and in mass media.

1.11 Applicable legislation
These Rules, as well as all rights and duties of the parties to the Contest shall be governed by the material legislation of the Czech Republic. All disputes and disagreements between Organizers of the Contest and participants, where agreement has not been achieved, shall be resolved in the courts of the Czech Republic.

1.12 Use of Author’s Materials
The term “author’s materials” denotes any materials which the Contestant or the participant uploads to the Contest Site on his/her own behalf, including (but not limited to) graphic and text materials, name and/or a pseudonym (nickname), images, photos, author’s biographic data.

The participant of the Contest gives the Contest organizers unlimited non-exclusive fee-free license giving the right:

to prepare, adapt, alter, code, convert in other format or otherwise to change author materials (or any part thereof) for digital transfer, use and demonstration in any format and by any means, known now or invented in the future; to use, show and distribute materials of the author on the global scale for the promotion of Prestigio products in accordance with the purposes and objectives of the Contest by any means known now or invented in the future.

This provision includes the right of Contest organizers to give public access to the author materials at the websites www.prestigio.com, www.prestigio.ru (and all other Internet resources owned by Prestigio), http://art.prestigio.com, and also the right to use the name of the author in connection with the promotion and popularization of the Contest.

Authors reserve all personal non-property rights in relation to the materials submitted to the Contest, including copyright.

If there is no other written agreement between the author and the Contest organizers, signed by both parties, the author cannot demand neither from the Contest organizers, nor from other persons who have received from organizers of Contest the right to use Contest artworks, any indemnification or payment for use and demonstration of the materials.

1.13 Disclosure of Information
These Rules and the information on the course of the Contest are openly published at the Contest Website. Any interested persons have the right to contact the Organizers asking for explanations of specific provisions of these Rules or other necessary information. The Organizers can be contacted at the following address: art@prestigio.com

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