Activities in Extended Videos Prize Challenge
sponsored by IARPA
Nov 08, 2018 - March 29, 2019

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To be eligible to win a prize under this competition, an individual or entity

1. Must have completed and submitted a registration form on https://actev.nist.gov/prizechallenge
2. Must meet any other account creation or registration requirements, such as creating an account on challenge.gov, etc.;
3. Must have complied with all the requirements stated in these Rules and Terms/Conditions;
4. Must agree to abide by the decisions of ODNI, NIST, and/or the individual judges, which shall be final and binding in all respects;
5. Must agree to follow all applicable local, state, federal and country of residence laws and regulations.
6. Must be (1) an individual or team of individuals each of whom are 18 years of age and over, or (2) a for-profit or non-profit entity organized or incorporated under law;
7. May not be a federal entity or federal employee acting within the scope of their employment;
8. Shall not be deemed ineligible because the individual or entity used Federal facilities or consulted with federal employees during a competition if the facilities and employees are made available to all individuals and entities participating in the competition on an equitable basis;
9. In the case of federal grantees may not use federal funds to develop challenge applications unless consistent with the purpose of their grant award;
10. In the case of federal contractors, may not use federal funds from a contract to develop challenge applications or to fund efforts in support of a challenge submission;
11. May not be employees of NIST or ODNI and/or any other individual or entity associated with the development, evaluation, or administration of the competition, as well as members of such persons’ immediate families (spouses, children, siblings, parents), and persons living in the same household as such persons, whether or not related, are not eligible to participate in the competition;
12. May not be prime contractors or subcontractors and their employees of the IARPA DIVA program, due to its similarity to the ActEV prize challenge (however, they may still register under the “forgoing prizes” option, in order to compete and have their solutions posted on the leaderboard without the possibility of a cash prize); and
13. Must not be currently on the Excluded Parties List (https:// www.epls.gov/).

By submitting an Entry, you represent and warrant that all information you submit is true and complete to the best of your knowledge, that you have the right and authority to submit the Entry on your own behalf or on behalf of the persons and entities that you specify within the Entry, and that your Entry (both the information and software submitted in the Entry and the underlying technologies or concepts described in the Entry):

1. Is your own original work, or is submitted by permission with full and proper credit given within your Entry;
2. does not contain confidential information or trade secrets (yours or anyone else’s);
3. does not knowingly, after due inquiry (including, by way of example only and without limitation, reviewing the records of the United States Patent and Trademark Office and inquiring of any employees and other professionals retained with respect to such matters), violate or infringe upon the patent rights, industrial design rights, copyrights, trademarks, rights in technical data, rights of privacy, publicity or other intellectual property or other rights of any person or entity;
4. does not contain malicious code, such as viruses, malware, timebombs, cancelbots, worms, Trojan horses or other potentially harmful programs or other material or information;
5. did not violate any applicable law, statute, ordinance, rule or regulation, including, without limitation, United States export laws and regulations, including, but not limited to, the International Traffic in Arms Regulations and the Department of Commerce Export Regulations; and
6. does not trigger any reporting or royalty or other obligation to any third party.

If the Submission includes any third party works (such as third party content, equipment, or open source code), entrant must be able to provide, upon the request of ODNI or NIST, documentation of all appropriate licenses and releases for such third party works. If entrant cannot provide documentation of all required licenses and releases, ODNI and NIST reserves the right to disqualify the applicable Submission, or sought to secure the licenses and releases for the benefit of ODNI and NIST, and allow the applicable Submission to remain in the Competition. ODNI and NIST also reserve all rights with respect to claims based on any damages caused by participant’s failure to obtain such licenses and releases. By participating in the Competition, you agree to assume any and all risks and to release, indemnify and hold harmless ODNI, NIST, and Engility Corporation, each of the Judges, and Subject Matter Experts, from and against any injuries, losses, damages, claims, actions and any liability of any kind (including attorneys’ fees) resulting from or arising out of your participation in, association with or submission to the Competition (including any claims alleging that your Entry infringes, misappropriates or violates any third party’s intellectual property rights). Participant agrees that they would not seek compensation for any equipment, materials, supplies, information, travel, labor and/or other Participant-provided services. In addition, you agree to waive claims against the Federal Government and its related entities, except in the case of willful misconduct, for any injury, death, damage, or loss of property, revenue, or profits, whether direct, indirect, or consequential, arising from your participation in this Competition, whether the injury, death, damage, or loss arises through negligence or otherwise. Entrants are not required to obtain liability insurance or demonstrate financial responsibility in order to participate in the competition. ODNI, NIST, and Engility Corporation are not responsible for any miscommunications such as technical failures related to computer, telephone, cable, and unavailable network or server connections, related technical failures, or other failures related to hardware, software or virus, or incomplete or late Entries. ODNI and NIST are not responsible for:

1. Any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by a Participant, printing errors, or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or used in the Competition;
2. unauthorized human intervention in any part of the Entry process for the Competition;
3. technical or human error that may occur in the administration of the Competition or the processing of Entries; or
4. any injury or damage to persons or property that may be caused, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, from a Participant’s participation in the Competition or receipt or use or misuse of an Award.

If for any reason an Entry is confirmed to have been deleted erroneously, lost, or otherwise destroyed or corrupted, the Participant’s sole remedy is to submit another Entry in the Competition. These rules cannot be modified except by ODNI or NIST. All decisions by ODNI or NIST regarding adherence to these rules are final. The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of these rules shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision. In the event that any provision is determined to be invalid or otherwise unenforceable or illegal, these rules shall otherwise remain in effect and shall be construed in accordance with their terms as if the invalid or illegal provision were not contained herein. ODNI and NIST reserve the right in their sole discretion to amend these rules throughout the duration of the contest should extenuating circumstances arise, to extend or modify the dates of the Competition, and to change the terms set forth herein governing any phases taking place after the effective date of any such change.

Prize payments was be provided by Engility Corporation. Prize winners need to submit a W-9 tax form, or a W8-BEN form in order to receive payment. Participants are responsible for all taxes incurred from the acceptance of Prize funds. No payments was made to participants where US sanctions preclude it.
IARPA reserves the right to cancel the ActEV prize challenge due to low participation or indications from early results that insufficient progress is being make toward challenge goals. It was anticipated that at least five participants would be necessary to award any prize challenge payment.

Each entrant retains full ownership and title in and to their submission and expressly reserve all intellectual property rights not expressly granted under the challenge agreement. By participating in the challenge, each entrant hereby irrevocably grants to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI ), of which IARPA is a component, and NIST a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license and right to reproduce, publically perform, publically display, and use the submission for internal ODNI and NIST business and to the extent necessary to administer the challenge. By submitting an Entry, you grant a non-exclusive right and license to ODNI and NIST to use your name, likeness, biographical information, image, any other personal data submitted with your Entry and the contents in your Entry (including any created works, such as YouTube® videos, but not including any App software submitted with or as part of your Entry), in connection with the Competition. You also agree that this license is perpetual and irrevocable.

You agree that nothing in this Notice grants you a right or license to use any names or logos of ODNI, IARPA, or NIST or any other intellectual property or proprietary rights of ODNI, IARPA, and NIST. You grant to ODNI and NIST the right to include your company or institution name and logo (if your Entry is from a company or institution) as a Participant on the Event Web site and in materials from IARPA announcing winners of or Participants in the Competition. Other than these uses or as otherwise set forth herein, you are not granting ODNI or NIST any rights to your trademarks.

ODNI and NIST would retain and use the system for a period of no longer than two years after submission or when the Participant ceases to participate in ActEV evaluations, whichever is later.

Any data or documentation that qualifies as business proprietary information, as defined by the Freedom of Information Act (5 USC Section 552), and is properly marked as such would be treated as confidential and would only be used for the purposes of the ActEV test.