Ask HN:Confused About Contest Rules

3 pointsby westy9216 lat temu4 comments

I have been working on an Application (http://www.taggedback.com/) since Mid December. I recently entered it in a contest (https://microsoft.promo.eprize.com/myappisbetter/) Before uploading my work, I read through the rules again, and came to a confusing part. Here is the link to the full rules: https://microsoft.promo.eprize.com/myappisbetter/public/fulfillment/rules.pdf

The part I am confused about is on the bottom of page 2: "Uploading a Submission constitutes entrant’s consent to give Sponsor a royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, create derivative works from, and display such Submissions in whole or in part, on a worldwide basis, and to incorporate it into other works, in any form, media or technology now known or later developed, including for promotional or marketing purposes. If necessary, entrant will sign any necessary documentation that may be required for Sponsor or its designees to make use of the non-exclusive rights entrant is granting to use the Submission. Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, invalid, un-intelligible or misdirected Submission, which are disqualified."

To me it sounds like uploading my App gives the Sponsor the right to do whatever they want with all of my hard work!

If that is the case, do I submit all of my hard work for the past 8.5 months to Microsoft?!? Any input would be appreciated! Thanks in advance!

3 comments

RiderOfGiraffes16 lat temu

Clickables:

http://www.taggedback.com/

https://microsoft.promo.eprize.com/myappisbetter/

https://microsoft.promo.eprize.com/myappisbetter/public/fulf...

Why do people not bother to create the clickable links? Do they not care? Do they not know (despite it being in the FAQ and mentioned over and over again)?

Why?

westy9216 lat temu

Sorry about the links, as I am new to this site... Thanks for adding them.

charliepark16 lat temu

As a point of clarification: Does the contest involve you uploading the source code? Or are you only to upload a link? (I'm guessing they want source, but I just wanted to be sure.)

westy9216 lat temu

Yes, they require me to upload the complete source code.

[deleted]16 lat temu