Judging Criteria
Each visitor to the contest site can vote on his/her favorite video. Each visitor may vote once in a 24 hour period. The video with the most votes will receive the first place prize. The video with the second most votes will receive the second place prize. The video with the third most votes will receive the third place prize.
The video viewed the most times from August 31 – September 6, will win the Fan Favorite Award.
Each entrant is only eligible for one prize. In the event that the most viewed video is also the first, second or third place prize winner, this entrant is not eligible for the Fan Favorite Award. The Fan Favorite prize will be awarded to the video with the most views that did not win another prize.
All voting will take place in a secure environment to protect against fraud or cheating.
Rules and Regulations
Other more specific rules may include:
- Entries cannot be longer than 2 minutes.
- All entries must be received by 11:59:59PM PST/ August 30th 2008.
- Entrants must be 18 years of age or older.
- Video may be filmed with camera phones, video camera, or any other digi-format.
- There is no cost or purchase required to enter this contest.
- Individual stores may submit multiple entries.
- No still photo entries will be accepted. However, you can use your still photos to create a slideshow with voice over and submit that.
- Entrants must be current Gap Brand store employees in United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Entrants must be employees in good standing.
- All filming and release forms must be signed by all entrants before the video is submitted to the contest site. Please fax completed forms to 604.909.5178.
Contest Rules (basic)
Your participation in the Contest, including your submission of a video to Memelabs.com shall be deemed to be your complete acceptance of the terms and conditions set out below by Memelabs.com (hereinafter referred to as Organizer) and Gap Inc. (hereinafter referred to as Sponsor).
CHILDREN AND MINORS: Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent. Additional information can be found on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission website. Any entrant who is a minor in his/her jurisdiction of legal residence will be required to obtain the permission of his/her parent or legal guardian to participate in this Contest. Entrant must also have obtained all necessary permissions from anyone else featured in his/her Submission, including permission from parents or legal guardians of minors included in such Submission (written proof of such permission must be made available to Sponsor upon request).
ELIGIBILITY: The Contest is open only to individual legal residents of Canada, Puerto Rico, and the 50 United States and the District of Columbia (the "Territory") who have internet access, are 18 years of age or older, and reside in the Territory at the time of entry. Only Gap brand store Employees can participate in the contest. Your participation in the Contest, including your submission of a video to Memelabs.com shall be deemed to be your complete acceptance of the terms and conditions set out below by Memelabs.com (hereinafter referred to as Organizer) and Gap Inc. (hereinafter referred to as Sponsor).
Entries cannot be longer than 2 minutes.
All entries must be received by August 30, 2008.
Videos can be shot with camera phones, digital video cameras or any other digital moving image format. No still photo entries will be accepted, however should you choose to create a video using still photos this will be accepted.
There is no cost or purchase required to enter this Contest.
Entry to the Contest is only open to persons of at least 18 years of age.
The contest is only open to current Gap brand store employees in good standing.
By submitting your contribution to the Organizer in relation to the Contest you agree to and thereby waive any and all moral rights that exist in your contribution to the Contest and any derivate works made there from.
By submitting your contribution to the Organizer in relation to the Contest you represent, warrant and
undertake to Sponsor and Organizer that your contribution (i) is your own original work and that you have
the sole right to submit it to the Contest (ii) does not violate in any way rights of third parties including
copyright and other intellectual property rights and (iii) does not violate any applicable laws.
In the event that you breach any of your representations, warranties or undertakings contained herein
Sponsor and Organizer shall be entitled to and may seek indemnification from you for recovery of all legal
fees, damages, claims and other expenses that may be incurred by Sponsor or its affiliated entities as a
result of your aforementioned breach.
Your contribution to the Contest should not include any content whatsoever which would reasonably
be understood to be defamatory, threatening, distasteful, racist, unlawful or otherwise objectionable.
Sponsor and Organizer reserve the right to alter or modify your contribution to the Contest without
notification or consent from you.
Sponsor and Organizer reserve the right to change these terms and conditions at any time and at its
sole discretion.
Entrants agree to grant to Sponsor and Organizer an everlasting, royalty-free, assignable, exclusive
license to use, utilize, replicate, alter, adapt, modify, publish, broadcast, translate, produce derivative works from, distribute, present, play, sublicense and exercise all copyright and other intellectual property rights with respect to your contribution worldwide and/or to include your contribution in other works in any media now known or later created forever. Each entrant agrees and grants Sponsor and Organizer permission to make available and display/perform and otherwise distribute entrant's name and video submission in all media in perpetuity without compensation. Except where legally prohibited, submission of an entry into this Contest constitutes permission for Sponsor and Organizer to use the entrant's name, photograph, likeness, voice, address (city and province/state) and testimonials, in printed, broadcast media or new media, in perpetuity, in any manner they deem appropriate in connection with promoting the video submission itself or this Contest, without further compensation in connection with this Contest or the prize awarded.
Each entrant agrees to indemnify Sponsor from any third party claims arising from or related to that entrant's participation in the Contest. By participating, entrants agree that Sponsor, Organizer involved in the development, production, implementation and distribution of this promotion and their respective parent companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, service providers, and agencies, and their directors, officers, agents, employees, attorneys, and any other person or entity associated with such entities and/or promotion shall not be liable for any and all claims, damages, losses or injuries, including any third party claims, arising from or relating to, in whole or in part, this Contest, including entry and participation in this Contest and acceptance, possession, use or misuse of the prizes. All entrants further agree that in the event of any third party claims, damages, losses or injuries, arising from or relating to this Contest, they will indemnify
Organizer and Sponsor from any and all such claims, including the attorneys' fees related thereto. Organizer and Sponsor shall not be responsible for any technical malfunctions of the telephone network, computer on- line system, computer equipment, software, program malfunctions or other failures, delayed computer transactions or network connections that are human, mechanical or technical in nature, or any combination thereof, including any injury.
Entrants participating in this Contest are liable for any copyright infringements caused by their videos.
Entrant is responsible to secure permission from all talent included in the video. Sponsor and Organizer assume no responsibility for royalties or fees associated with talent performances in the entered videos.
Sponsor and Organizer assume no responsibility for lost or late entries or for incomplete computer transmissions or technical failures.
Sponsor and Organizer reserve the right not to accept entries that are considered inappropriate for the Contest.
Guidelines for nonprofit eligibility: Gap Inc. cannot match donations to the following: Political organizations Religious organizations, except those with a social service program that operates separately from the church. The program must have its own tax-exempt status under sections 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and must have its own mission statement and Board of Directors.
Gap Inc. does not make donations to organizations that discriminate.
Gap Inc. grantees are eligible to be entered in the contest
Notification
- The winners will be contacted at the phone and/or e-mail provided during registration.
- The winners and title of their entry will be announced on the website.
- The winning videos will be featured on the contest website.
- Prizes will be delivered shortly after the winning videos are announced.
- Acceptable source video includes sources that are not copyrighted. Contestant takes responsibility that all images and soundtracks are not copyrighted material. This means, do NOT use commercial copyrighted music or images.
- Videos may not contain obscene language or content, including but not limited to: nudity, profanity, or graphic violence.
- Entries cannot be longer than 2 minutes.
- Video can be in any format. For optimal display, videos should be 511x319 pixels. We cannot guarantee acceptance of files larger than 8MB.
- Videos must be submitted via the web as instructed after registration. If you have problems uploading, please contact us at questions@memelabs.com. If you are having problems uploading, you must contact us before the contest has expired.
All filming and releases forms must be signed by all entrants prior to the video being accepted.
Stores may submit multiple entries.
