Eligibility
This Promotion is open to microKORG and mircoKORG XL users who have internet access. Employees, officers and directors of the Sponsor and its parents, affiliates, related parties and their immediate families are not eligible to participate in the Promotion.
To Enter
Enter the Promotion by submitting your video entry via YouTube.
Naming Your Entry: The title of your video entry must start with “KORG microMADNESS”.
Tagging Your Entry: Use the “Tag” field to select the correct category for your entry. Enter “KORG microMADNESS microKORG” in the tag field when uploading your video to submit your entry.
The movies will be shown in the Topics section on the microMADNESS contest page.
Note: Winners will be notified via YouTube message. Please check the “Privacy” page on your YouTube account. Please make sure to un-check “Allow only my contacts to send messages or share videos” in the Search and Contact Restrictions section. Also, the Contestant’s YouTube account must be active until November 20th, 2012, at the end of the contest.
All submissions must meet the following guidelines
Video submissions must be no more than two (2) minutes in length.
Entries must depict the ENTRANT ONLY in a non-descript location or with a plain backdrop.
Entries cannot contain sexually explicit material, lewdness, obscenity, violence, inappropriate language, depictions of bodily harm, damage to public property, or damage to other people’s property.
Entries must not include third party trademarks, logos, insignias, location signage, photographs, artwork or sculptures.
Entries must focus on microKORG or microKORG XL. Not contain any competitive products.
Naming Your Entry: The title of your video entry must start with “KORG microMADNESS”.
Entrants whose videos violate any of these requirements, or are deemed not suitable for public viewing for any other reason, may be deemed ineligible to receive the prize and their submission may be voided at the Sponsor’s sole discretion. The Sponsor reserves the right to determine in their sole discretion which entries have satisfied the entry requirements. All Entries must be submitted in accordance with these Official Rules and must be received by the Sponsor by 11:59 PM EST, September 18, 2012. No other method of submission will be accepted. Entry by multiple accounts is prohibited.
Selection
Each entry will be judged by a panel of judges selected by the Sponsor (“Panel”). Each entry will be judged on a scale from 1-10 in each of the following criteria: (1) originality (25%); (2) humor (25%); (3) creativity (25%); and (4) entertainment value (25%) (“Selection Criteria”). The four (4) entries with the highest overall scores will be deemed “Winners.” In the event of a tie for any of the top four (4) entries, Potential Winners will be selected based on the entertainment value criterion. As this is a contest of skill, the odds of winning are dependent upon the number and quality of entries received.
Announcement of Winners
Winners will be announced on the contest page and KORG’s YouTube channels on October 19, 2012.
Prizes
Four winners will be selected. A serial no.1 from four products that will be launched in late 2012 will be given to each of the four winners. More info about the prizes will be announced later.
No substitution or transfer of prizes, except at the sole discretion of the Sponsor, if the advertised prize becomes unavailable. All prizes will be awarded.
Notification of Potential Winners
Potential Winners will receive notification packages by YouTube message within 30 days of the end of the Promotion, which must be completed and returned to the Sponsor as instructed.
General Terms and Conditions
Potential Winners may be required to complete an affidavit or declaration of eligibility, waiver of liability and, where lawful, publicity release, which must be returned to the Sponsor within 48 hours of receipt of the notification package. If the effort to send a notification package to a Potential Winner is unsuccessful, or if a Potential Winner fails to complete and return any required document within the required time period, an alternate Potential Winner may be selected from the remaining eligible entrants. If the prize is not claimed or is returned as undeliverable, then the Winner’s right to the prize shall be forfeited and the prize award will be void and an alternate Winner may be selected from the eligible Potential Winners. The Sponsor is not responsible for late, lost, misdirected, incomplete, incorrect entries or prize claims. The Sponsor is also not responsible for incomplete, interrupted, or scrambled transmissions, unavailable web sites, networks, servers, or systems, or other connection or transmission problems, technical malfunctions of the computer, software, web site, or any combination thereof, problems associated with any virus or other damage caused to any participant’s system or other problems of any kind, whether mechanical, electronic, or human. The Sponsor reserves the right to suspend and/or cancel the Promotion or change any element hereof, with or without notice, at any time, due to printing, computer or network errors, or other mistakes in the production or operation of the Promotion. There will be no correspondence regarding the Promotion except communication with the Potential Winners and in response to requests for Winner’s Lists. All decisions of the judges are final and binding on all matters relating to the Promotion. By entering, participants agree to be bound by the Official Rules, and release the Sponsor and its agents and their respective parent companies, subsidiaries and affiliates, and each of their respective officers, directors, employees and agents from any and all liability, loss, or damage arising out of their participation in the Promotion or with respect to the awarding, receipt, possession, use and/or misuse of any prize. The winner is responsible for any applicable taxes on awarded prizes. The Sponsor reserves the right to cancel or suspend the Promotion, or change any element thereof, with or without notice, at any time and for any reason. The Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify in its sole discretion any person tampering with the entry process or any person who violates these Official Rules in any way.
Ownership of Video
By participating in the Promotion, each entrant warrants that he/she is the sole author/creator and subject of the video submitted and that the video is not copied in whole, or in part from any other work and does not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, trademarks, contract rights or any other rights of any person or entity. In consideration of a video being reviewed and evaluated for this Promotion, each entrant hereby grants to the Sponsor the non-exclusive, irrevocable, fully paid, universal license to use, copy, sublicense, transmit, distribute, publicly perform, publish, delete or display such entry, or any portion thereof in any media now known or hereafter devised including, but not limited to all forms of electronic media, print media and all forms of internet and wireless protocol. Each entrant understands that his or her name and video submissions may be posted on the Sponsor’s website in connection with this Promotion. Entrant agrees that the Sponsor has no obligation to post any submitted material on it's website. Each entrant authorizes the Sponsor to utilize, for eternity and in any manner they see fit, the submission provided to the Sponsor, and to make derivative works from such materials in connection with the Promotion (i.e., without limitation, to create promotional materials).
Publicity Release
By participating in the Promotion, each entrant irrevocably grants the Sponsor the right to use each such entrant’s name, photograph, image, video, biographical information, in any and all media for any purpose, including, without limitation, advertising and promotional purposes and each entrant hereby releases the Sponsor from any liability with respect thereto, except where prohibited. By entering this Promotion, each entrant grants the Sponsor the right to utilize the entrant’s contact information provided by the entrant in the submission of their entry to contact the entrant for any reason. Completion of the entry form constitutes assent to these written terms.
Additional Disclaimers
The Sponsor expressly disclaims any and all liability in connection with submissions. The Sponsor does not permit copyright infringing activities and infringement of intellectual property rights on the Contest Website, and the Sponsor will remove all submissions if properly notified that such submission infringes on another's intellectual property rights. The Sponsor reserves the right to remove submissions without prior notice.
Privacy Policy
Except as otherwise contemplated in these rules or in any publicity release, information collected by the Sponsor in connection with this Promotion will be used by the Sponsor in accordance with the Sponsor’s online privacy policy, which is as follows:
Personal information that you provide in conjunction with this campaign will be used by KORG INC., KORG USA, KORG UK and KORG Distributors only for the purposes of this campaign (accepting submissions, selecting entries, and notifying winners), and will not be used for any other purpose.
List of Winners
(For US residents only)
For a winners list, please send a self-addressed stamped envelope by November 30, 2012 to: List of Winners for the microMADNESS Video Contest, KORG USA, Inc., 316 S. Service Rd, Melville, NY, 11747. Vermont residents need not include return postage. Entry serves as authorization to receive future KORG Newsletters and other promotional material from the Sponsor.
