Who May Enter
NO PURCHASE IS NECESSARY AND A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. Contest is open to
everyone (excluding non-residents of the Philippines) eighteen (18) years of age or more at the time of entry. Employees of Teledata-Vintedge Pte. Ltd., Samsung Electronics Philippines Corporation, and each of their subsidiaries and affiliated companies, and immediate family members of such employees (defined for the purpose of these rules as husband, wife, mother, father, sister, brother, son, daughter, or persons residing in the same household of such employees) are not eligible. The Sponsors reserve the right to verify the eligibility of entrants and check their identity.

Term
The Samsung Innov8ive Photo Challenge (the “Contest”) submission period begins September 19, 2008 until November 31, 2008. Online entries must be uploaded by November 31, 2008 midnight. The Samsung Innov8ive Photo Challenge (the “Contest”) voting period begins December 1, 2008 until December 22, 2008.

• The Photograph, in its entirety, must be a single work of original material taken by the photographer. By entering the Contest, the photographer represents, acknowledges and warrants that the submitted Photograph is an original work created solely by the entrant and that no other party has any right, title, claim or interest in the Photograph; nor does the Photograph substantially take from or imitate the work of someone else.
• Obscene, provocative, or otherwise offensive content will be disqualified under full discretion of the Sponsor.
• A photograph that has already won any prize or distinction in another competition will be disqualified. Any photograph that has been published or sold commercially (whether directly or via an agency intermediary) will also be disqualified.
• Photographer must be prepared to provide Sponsor with the Samsung mobile phone or digital camera used in taking the image. Failure to provide such may result in disqualification.

How to Enter
You may submit your entries either digitally in the ff. format:

• Images should be saved at a minimum of 72 DPI.
• Images must be saved as .jpg file at the highest possible quality setting (12 or Max in Photoshop).
• The file name/label should follow the file naming convention
  <Letter of contestant’s first name><Contestant’s last name><image title>.jpg
  (e.g., Schua.fun.jpg).
• Complete the registration procedure located in the promo site and upload your entries.
• All uploaded image must be accompanied by an original description / blog written by the photographer explaining why each photo is an expression of   his innovative side.

Third Party Licenses
Upon Sponsor’s request, each entrant must be prepared to provide a signed written personal release from all people appearing in the Photograph submitted, authorizing the Sponsor (and their licensees, designees and affiliated companies) (collectively, the "Authorized Parties") to use, reproduce and distribute the Photograph in any media now or hereafter known, without restriction, including commercially using and exploiting it to fullest extent possible. (Download Model Release Form Here). Similarly, upon Sponsor’s request, each entrant must be prepared to provide a signed written release from the copyright owner of any sculpture, artwork or other copyrighted material that appears in the Photograph entry, granting the Authorized Parties a non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable license to use, reproduce and distribute the Photograph in any media now or hereafter known, without restriction, including commercially using and exploiting it to fullest extent possible. Finally, upon Sponsor’s request, each entrant must be prepared to provide a signed written release from the owner of any well-known trademark that appears in the Photograph entry, granting the Authorized Parties a right and license to use and reproduce the Photograph in any media now or hereafter known, without restriction, including commercially using and exploiting it to fullest extent possible. All releases must be in the form provided by Sponsors. Failure to provide such releases upon request may result in disqualification and selection of an alternate winner.

Entrant’s Licenses
Each entrant grants to the Authorized Parties a non-exclusive, royalty-free license through the entire world and for the duration of intellectual property rights pertaining thereto, to use and reproduce, in whole or in part, without any number limitation, in any form, by any mean or process, or any medium, whether now known or hereafter existing, the Photograph for editorial, commercial, advertising, promotional, publicity or trade purposes, including commercially using and exploiting it to fullest extent possible. Each winner further acknowledges that any Authorized Party may use a name credit in connection with such use, in any media now or hereafter known. No Authorized Party will be required to pay any additional consideration or seek any additional approval in connection with such use or exploitation.

Judging
Entries will be judged in two (2) rounds of evaluation. The judges will evaluate the entries based on the following criteria ("Judging Criteria") weighted equally:

1. Extent to which the Photograph captures the Innov8ive spirit.
2. Composition of essay
3. Creativity
4. Originality

The judges in the first round shall consist of one expert editor in the field of photography and will be appointed by the Sponsor to identify eight (8) finalists per category (there are eight(8) categories), using the Judging Criteria. The 64 finalists will be revealed to public via Samsung Fun Club. Through SFC website, anyone can vote for their favorite entry. By the end of the voting period, the entry with the highest vote wins.

Prizes
THE POTENTIAL WINNERS ARE REQUIRED TO SIGN THE FOLLOWING: (1) AN AFFIDAVIT OF ELIGIBILITY AND LIABILITY RELEASE AND (2) WARRANTY OF OWNERSHIP AND LICENSE. UNLESS PROHIBITED BY LAW, EACH POTENTIAL WINNER MUST SIGN THESE TWO DOCUMENTS IN ORDER FOR SPONSORS TO AWARD THE PRIZE. NONCOMPLIANCE OR RETURN OF PRIZE NOTIFICATION AS UNDELIVERABLE WILL RESULT IN DISQUALIFICATION AND SELECTION OF AN ALTERNATE WINNER.

1. The Grand Prize winner of the Contest will receive a Samsung Innov8.
2. The second place prize winner will receive a Samsung EC-L100 8 megapixel camera.
3. The third place prize winner will receive a Samsung EC-S760 7.2 megapixel camera.

Notification
The winners will be notified via Samsung Fun Club (http://ph.samsungmobile.com) .

Liability
All entries are sent at the entrant’s risk. The Sponsor is not responsible (either jointly or severally) for lost, late, damaged, illegible, stolen, misdirected, misidentified, postage due or incomplete entries, for any problems or technical or mechanical malfunction of any telephone systems, computer on-line systems, servers, access providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any entry to be received by the Owners on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website, or inaccurate entry information, whether caused by equipment, programming used in this Contest, human processing or otherwise, or any combination thereof. The Sponsor is not responsible (jointly or severally) for any costs associated with claiming any prize. The winners are solely responsible for the payment of any and all taxes, if any, that may result in claiming a prize in this Contest.

By participating, participants agree to release, discharge and hold harmless the sponsor and their partners, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising agencies, agents and their employees, officers, directors, and representatives from any claims, losses, and damages arising out of their participation in this Contest or any Contest-related activities and the acceptance and use, misuse, or possession of any prize awarded hereunder.

General Agreement
Submission of an entry to the Competition automatically constitutes the entrant’s acceptance of all the Terms and Conditions set forth in the above rules. Entrants not complying in full with the above Terms and Conditions will be disqualified. Entries that are incomplete, defaced or damaged will be disqualified. Odds of winning depend on number and calibre of entries received.

WINNERS LIST
Winners’ names will be available online at http://ph.samsungmobile.com after December 22, 2008.