The Youth for Youth Education Program reserves the right, in its absolute discretion, to disqualify a video it believes does not respect or potentially not respect one or several of the Y4Y Video Contest official rules.
The contest organizers reserve the right to modify, suspend or cancel the Contest for any reason, without any prior notice.
These rules may be changed without notice or reason including, if necessary, to comply with any applicable law. By entering this contest, participants agree to abide by these rules and acknowledge that the contest organizers shall not be responsible for any damages, costs, demands, claims or losses of any kind, incurred by any contestant as a result of participation in this contest.
Submission originality:
All content included in the poster or video submission must be original. The submission must not infringe upon or violate any laws or any third-party rights. This includes but is not limited to: copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights. Submissions must not lead to any cause of action including libel, defamation, privacy violation, contract breach or tort. The participant must obtain all necessary permissions, licenses, clearances, releases, waivers of moral rights and other approvals from third parties necessary to use the submission, in whole or in part (including but not limited to: all copyright holders and all individuals appearing in the video or poster submission), without limitation, to reproduce, make derivatives, edit, modify, translate, distribute, transmit, publish, license and broadcast the video submission worldwide, by any means. Any and all such permissions, licenses, clearances, releases, waivers of moral rights and approvals must be attached to the submission.
Submissions from contestants who have previously participating in the Y4Y Contest (but did not win a monetary prize) are permitted. However, the submission must be unique from the previous submission and bare as little resemblance as possible to their previous work. The Contest Organizer reserves the right to deem a submission unoriginal from returning contestants.
Content restrictions:
Submissions must not contain, illustrate, comment or target, without exception, any of the following:
- Obscenities, offensive or sexually explicit language, nudity, hurtful content, or equally unacceptable language or content;
- Ensure that minors (below 18) are not shown in your submission.
- Language or content that is malicious, threatening, offensive, degrading, defamatory, racist, insulting, hateful, violent or obscene, acts of explicit violence or discriminatory language or content;
- Any individual, which the participant or the people who agreed to be included, in accordance with the official rules, who is identifiable in any way;
- Any reference to personal information concerning other people, including their names or information that could be used to identify or locate another person or otherwise considered as an infringement of privacy of another person;
- Content that encourages violence, intimidation or illegal behaviour, or tolerating these behaviours, or encouraging prejudices, hatred or prejudices towards a group or a person, or encouraging discrimination or exploitation based on race, gender, religion, disability or age;
- Any illegal claims or content;
- Defamation, libel or slander;
- Dangerous stunts;
- The use of any type of real weapons;
- Drug use;
- Any other content deemed offensive by Y4Y or the jury, at their sole discretion.
- Y4Y reserves the right to determine, at its sole discretion, if the content of a submission contravenes the video-related requirements.
Indemnity and limitations of liability:
Your personal safety and that of your actors, camera crew and other individuals involved in the making of the video or poster must be maintained. Do not put anyone at risk during the making of the video or poster. If you show dangerous tasks in your video or video, you must follow all safety regulations and take all necessary precautions to prevent any injuries. Each participant accepts to defend, indemnify and save harmless from the Y4Y, its employees, officers, directors and agents as well as the jury from any and all lawsuits, claims, losses, injuries, death, damages and expenses, including any reasonable legal costs arising out of the participant’s video or in connection with the latter in any way, and to release the Y4Y, its employees, officers, directors and agents as well as the jury from any liability in connection with the Contest (including the awarding of a prize).
Grant of rights:
By participating in the contest and by submitting a video, each participant:
- Grants the Youth for Youth Education Program an irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free and perpetual license and right (including the right to sub-license) to copy, modify, reproduce, broadcast, display, publish, show in public, expose, encode, stock, adapt, transmit and use or present, in whole or in part, the video or poster through any current or future means of communication (including any future promotional or educational project and school presentations ), and including, but not limited to, the perpetual distribution over the Internet starting on the date of participation, including, but not limited to, the administration and promotion of the contest;
- Waives, in favour of the Y4Y, all intellectual property rights, public image and privacy rights, moral rights or any other right recognized by the law that he/she may have acquired for the video or its features, if applicable, and which may prohibit the Y4Y from using the video or poster;
- Waives and releases the Y4Y, its employees, officers, directors and agents as well as the jury of any claim based on public image rights, defamation, invasion of privacy, copyright, trademark infringement or any other legal action concerning the video intellectual property rights.
- The participant grants these rights, free of charge, to the Y4Y and accepts that no other permission or further copyright payment to the participant or other party be required.
