Waivers and Rights
1. Entering this competition will not limit your copyright. Applicants retain the copyright to their work 100%, however it is suggested that all contestants register their work with the Writer's Guild of America (WGA) www.wga.org/ or the U.S. Copyright Office www.copyright.gov/.
2. By entering this contest, you give the Film Factory permission to use your name, likeness, script, logline, synopsis, and/or excerpts in our promotional and informational materials in perpetuity without additional consideration. This includes use on our websites, in print materials, and/or any other media used to chronicle or promote the Film Factory experience, including taping and airing on WQED's ''OnQ.''
3. By entering this contest, entrants certify that they own the rights to any work they are adapting for submission into the Film Factory competition. Entrants also indemnify the Film Factory, Steeltown Entertainment Project, its agents, judges, affiliates and sponsors from liability if action is brought for copyright violations. This indemnification includes the payment of lawyers fees incurred in the process.
4. Entrants understand that contest judges receive numerous submissions of ideas, stories, and scripts and that your submission may very well be similar or identical to that of materials received and/or developed by judges. Therefore, you agree that you are not entitled to compensation or credit for the use of these other materials by contest judges.
5. I/We agree to hold the Film Factory and Steeltown Entertainent Project, including staff, judges, sponsors, board members, volunteers, contractors, agents, and affiliates harmless from and defend them against all claims, demands, losses, damages, judgments, liabilities (including attorney's fees) arising out of or in connection with any and all claims of third parties, whether groundless, for any screenplay submitted to the Film Factory or any screenplay/film/video developed out of submission to the Film Factory.
6. I /We understand that my participation in all events surrounding the Film Factory, including workshops, competition, production, post-production, and screening is mandatory. The Film Factory reserves the right to revoke and redistribute any benefits or awards I /we receive for the failure to participate fully in the Film Factory experience.
7. I /We understand that in no way, unless under an expressed agreement, is the Film Factory, Steeltown Entertainment Project, or any of their affiliates responsible for the costs of travel, lodging, or other accommodations while participating in the Film Factory.
Steeltown Spotlight
"The Film Factory has done a wonderful job of nurturing emerging talent in Pittsburgh, while at the same time, reconnecting established people in the entertainment industry with the hometown they still love."
- Jamie Widdoes
Director: 'Two & a Half Men'
Co-Star:'Animal House'
