Wah Hung Sheng, SMA's IPR conditions are still very stringent! Do you honestly think this is fair? Even applicants who don't win anything are expected to give up the rights to exploit their own materials? Why is that? And SMA want the right to use all the entries without compensation or even credit to the original creator. How come they need that?
Intellectual Property Rights
14.
By submitting an original video entry and entering the Competition, each Entrant grants the Organizers the right in perpetuity to publish, edit, adapt, modify, reproduce, display, distribute, make available to the public and/or otherwise use the video clips/ materials submitted hereunder including the video and underlying works (the Materials), in any manner for any and all purposes without limitation (including but not limited to advertisements, publicity and/or marketing), in any and all media worldwide without further compensation to or permission from Entrant, and with or without credit to Entrant, at the Organizers sole discretion.
15.
Each Entrant hereby expressly waives any moral rights which he/she may have or be entitled under any applicable legislation now existing or in the future enacted in any part of the world. Each Entrant agrees and acknowledges that the Organizers shall have no obligation to return any entries or provide explanations as to why an entry was disqualified. Each Entrant agrees that the Organizers shall not be under any obligation to exploit, publish, distribute and/or exhibit any video(s) and no Entrant shall have any claim against the Organizersin this regard. Each Entrant agrees that he/she will not exploit, or allow others to exploit, any of the Materials without obtaining the prior written approval of the Organizers.
