Art Contest Official Rules

These Contest Rules apply to the Art Contest organized by Stremio. By submitting a Contest entry, you agree to these Rules.

The words "include" and "including" as used in these Terms mean "including but not limited to."

1. Eligibility
   1. The Art Contest is open to all participants ages 18 and over, except employees and volunteers (and their immediate families and members of the same household) of Stremio and their respective affiliates, corporate parents or subsidiaries, agents, advertising and promotion agencies and/or any other individuals or corporations involved in the production and distribution of Stremio.
   2. Requirements to enter: In order to participate, you must fill in the Contest submission form and provide a link to a public source of your Contest entry.
   3. In order to receive a prize, you must submit a valid Bitcoin or PayPal wallet address and provide us with a set of personal data for accounting purposes.
   4. Stremio reserves the right to verify your eligibility and to adjudicate any dispute at any time.
   5. All communication regarding the Stremio Art Contest will be carried out in English.
2. Entry requirements
   1. No purchase is required to participate in the Contest.
   2. You must fill in the Art Contest submission form and provide the required information about yourself in order to participate.
   3. You must provide a link/URL to a high quality image of the art entry, which can be a public post in a social media account or a web portfolio (such as DeviantArt, Behance, Dribbble, Instagram, Facebook, Tumblr, Imgur, etc.).
   4. You must follow the instructions on the Contest website and submit the completed entry of an original work which illustrates your personal artistic interpretation of the creative prompt:
      
      What’s Stremio to you?

      As you probably know, Stremio already has more than 15 Million users enjoying all the video content available. Show us in what way Stremio or our cat Stremurrr changed your daily life! In your art, we want to see how you are inspired by the boundless potential of what Stremio can offer to make everyone’s watching experience greater.

      Have you been inspired by a movie you saw on Stremio? Or by the color purple?

      Whether you’re a long-time Stremio user or you’ve just heard about it and installed it, get to work and share your connection to us. Just pick your medium and express that purple side of you.

   5. Only online entries will be accepted. No hard copies of the entry will be accepted for judging.
   6. The Entry:
      • Мust be at least 2,000 pixels in its shortest length;
      • Мust be your original work made for the Art Contest and may not use stock materials from others, or other trademarks;
      • Licensed brushes and textures are acceptable as well as original assets from your own work, and visual elements from Stremio brand but the participant may not directly copy and paste images from Stremio as part of an entry;
      • Can include the Stremio logo, if it is part of the entry’s idea and composition;
   7. Art submissions can be submitted by 23:59 CET on June 25, 2021.
3. Contest timeline
   1. The Contest will take place in two stages:
      • Art entries submission: April 12, 2021 - June 25, 2021
      • Judging and scoring contest entries; community vote: June 25 - July 2, 2021.
   2. Contest winners will be announced on July 5, 2021.
4. Judging and scoring
   1. Contest entries will be evaluated by 3 (three) judges, members of the core Stremio team.
   2. Contest submissions will be judged on the following criteria:
      1. Relevance of the artwork;
      2. Overall emotional impact of the entry;
      3. Composition;
      4. Technical excellence;
      5. Visual quality;
      6. Originality and artistic skill;
   3. There will be three prizes awarded by the Stremio judges panel - first, second and third Contest prizes. One more award will be awarded based on a public community vote.
   4. All qualified submissions will be posted in advance of final judging. The judges may apply each of the criteria listed above in whatever degree of emphasis he or she chooses but each panel of judges must reach consensus on the Stremio prize winner. In the event of a tie in any portion of the judging process, including the Community vote, the judges themselves will resolve the tie to the appropriate number of ranked winners as applicable.
5. Prizes
   1. The Art Contest will award a prize pool of $5,000, paid out in Bitcoin or via PayPal.
   2. A total of four prizes will be awarded: a first, second and third place, and a community prize based on the community vote.
   3. The prizes will be distributed as follows:
      • First place: $2,000 or the equivalent of $2,000 in Bitcoin;
      • Second place: $1,500 or the equivalent of $1,500 in Bitcoin;
      • Third place: $1,000 or the equivalent of $1,000 in Bitcoin;
      • Community prize: $500 or the equivalent of $500 in Bitcoin.
   4. Winners who opt in to receive their prizes paid out via PayPal will be requested to provide their full names, date of birth and postal address before receiving the prize payout. This information will be used solely for accounting purposes and will be treated in accordance to GDPR.
   5. Forfeiture: Winners will forfeit their prizes in case they fail to respond to the email notification within 10 days of receiving it, and/or fail to provide a valid Bitcoin wallet address, and/or fail to provide the information requested for PayPal payouts in accordance to article 5.4. of these Rules.
   6. Taxes. Winners are solely responsible for complying with all applicable tax laws and filing requirements. Winners are solely responsible for paying all taxes, duties, and other fees imposed on prizes awarded.
6. Disqualification
   1. Participants may be disqualified from the Contest and forfeit any prizes if Stremio reasonably believes they have attempted to undermine the legitimate operation of the contest, including:
      1. Providing false information in their submission form;
      2. Breaching these Art Contest rules;
      3. Interfering with the administration of the Art Contest;
      4. Interfering with the ability of other participants to take part in the Art Contest;
      5. Submitting an art that infringes on a third party’s copyright;
      6. Submitting an art that violates any applicable law;
      7. Submitting an art that was developed prior to the official start of the Contest;
      8. Submitting an art that has been submitted to a previous Contest held by Stremio.
   2. You may report to Stremio at [email protected] any violation of these Rules by another contestant. Stremio will then investigate any such allegations and will take all applicable measures.
7. Ownership and privacy
   1. All art submissions remain the intellectual property of the individual who has created them. Stremio makes no claim to any intellectual property developed by Contest participants during the course of the Contest.
   2. For any submission you make to the Contest, you grant Stremio a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, free license (with the right to sublicense) to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, and otherwise use such submission.
   3. You, as a participant, acknowledge that Stremio has had, and will continue to have, numerous other artists' artwork based on this Art Contest brief, and that Stremio may freely use any such artwork without any obligation or liability to your submission whatsoever notwithstanding any coincidental similarity between such artwork and yours.
   4. As a contest participant, you warrant and represent that your contributions to the artwork are completely original and will not infringe upon any third party intellectual property rights or personality rights of any kind in any manner.
   5. Stremio will use the information you have provided in the Contest application form for any subsequent communication to administer the Contest.
   6. By accepting a prize, you agree that Stremio has the right to use your name, likeness and statement to promote the Contest.
   7. The name and/or nickname you provide in your Contest submission form may be displayed publicly on the Contest website.
8. Disclaimers

   THE ART CONTEST WEBSITE AND ALL CONTENT IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. STREMIO DISCLAIMS ALL REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES (EXPRESS OR IMPLIED), INCLUDING ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. STREMIO IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INCOMPLETE, FAILED, OR DELAYED TRANSMISSION OF YOUR APPLICATION INFORMATION OR SUBMISSIONS DUE TO THE INTERNET, INCLUDING INTERRUPTION OR DELAYS CAUSED BY EQUIPMENT OR SOFTWARE MALFUNCTION OR OTHER TECHNICAL PROBLEMS.

9. General terms
   1. By accepting these rules, you acknowledge that participation in the Art Contest is voluntary.
   2. You may submit more than one art submission during the course of the Art Contest. All artworks must be submitted separately and will be evaluated separately.
   3. The results of the Art Contest will be posted on the Stremio blog after its end.