RULES

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1.1 The Theme of the Contest

The entries (submitted photos) should illustrate the motto «People – The Art of Life» and realized in one the following genres: portrait; reporting; genre photo.

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 Prestigio portable multimedia recorder PMR-701 30GB + US$700
User choice. Site Сommunity Special prize Prestigio portable media player PMP-501 30 GB + US$200
Prestigio special prize Kids – The Art of Life Stylish portable external storage device Data Safe II 80GB + US$300
Prestigio special prize Prestigio in Art of Life Stylish portable external storage device Data Safe II 80GB + US$300

All winners shall also receive a special figurine symbolizing the contest. Every participant whose entry will be selected for inclusion into the Photo Catalogue, will receive a certificate of participation. All prizes and awards will be presented to the winners only upon presentation of the identity documents and provided they have met entry requirements, including duly signed Copyright Release.

1.3 Rules of Identifying Winning Entries

The Grand-Prix will be awarded to the entrant who will score the highest number of points as a result of the Prestigio Jury’s voting. The Prestigio Jury consists of 20 company employees from corporate divisions based in Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Netherlands.

The special Prestigio Prize in nomination “Prestigio in Art of Life” will be awarded to the entrant who will score the highest number of points as a result of the Prestigio Jury’s voting. The photos considered for this nomination must contain at least one Prestigio product

The special Prestigio Prize in nomination “Kids - Art of Life” will be awarded to the entrant who will score the highest number of points as a result of the Prestigio Jury’s voting. The photos considered for nomination "Kids - Art of Life" must contain children image.

Site Сommunity Special prize 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

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 violenceб consists of smiles only etc. 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 Contest Stages and Terms

• Contest term: 30 April – 25 June 2007

• Submission deadline: 25 June

• Voting via website: until 25 June

• Prestigio team voting: 25 June -29 June

• Declaration of the poll: 29 June

1.7 Rules of Entry Submissions

Author has to submit a digital version of the photo via the website http://art.prestigio.com (Authors’ Entry) or by sending it to the following email address: art@prestigio.com

1.8 Entry Requirements

The Jury will only accept completed original photos, as well as meeting the purposes and goals of the Contest, its theme and priorities. The photos submitted to the Contest should be executed on a high artistic and technological level.

When submitting the entry the authors must submit or send to mail art@prestigio.com a scanned copy of the signed Copyright Release which is available for download at the Contest website http://art.prestigio.com . The photos which are not accompanied by the signed Copyright Release will not be accepted.

The photos to site must be presented in one of the following formats: jpg/tif with the size of no more 2MB. The authors has to have the sources with quality with resolution of no less than 300dpi and having the size of no less a5. The sources can be requested by organizers during the contest.

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.

1.9 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.

1.10 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.

1.11 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 or sends to the Contest Entry Centers, 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, produce , and distribute materials of the author on the global scale for any purpose, including 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.

1.12 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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