The Green in 3 Video Contest (?Contest?) entry period begins at 12:01 a.m. (ET) on February 21, 2014, and ends at 11:59 p.m. (ET) on March 21, 2014.

1. ELIGIBILITY: Open only to legal residents of the 50 United States and DC and Canada (excluding Quebec), who are 18 years or older and have a valid user account with YouTube (see Rule 2 below). Void in Quebec, Guam, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands and other U.S. territories and possessions, and where prohibited by law. Duke University employees involved in the administration of the Contest, as well as immediate family/same household members of anyone so employed or engaged, are not eligible for prize awards. No purchase necessary. Participation in the Contest constitutes Contestants? full and unconditional agreement to these Official Rules and the Sponsor?s decisions that are final and binding in all matters relating to the Contest.

2. TO ENTER: As the sustainable lifestyle gains momentum many sustainable practices have become more common. However many people still avoid simple practices like composting, recycling, or gardening. Your job, in 30 seconds, is to creatively advertise one thing you do to live sustainably. Convince us that we should adopt this new lifestyle change by letting us know how easy it is, how fun it can be or what benefits can come from it. Why is composting the most exciting part of the day? Why is raising chickens easier than we all thought it was? Make your film creative and fun, and you could win $500. FUN and CREATIVE are the operative words!

1. Come up with a creative concept for Living Green and create a video of no more than 30 seconds. Shoot it with your video camera, your digital camera, your cell phone.
2. Upload your video to YouTube and enter it in our contest.
3. Being creative and fun gives you a better shot at winning.

The Contest entry period with up to 5 (FIVE) winners.

Friday February 21st, 2014 through Friday March 21st, 2014

Contest winners will be posted on the official Web site on Friday March 28th, 2014

Winning videos will be combined into a single 3-minute video, screened at the 2014 Duke LEAF Award Ceremony on April 12, 2014, and posted on the official Green in 3 video contest website.

To be officially entered into the Green in 3 contest, you must complete the following steps:

1. Register on YouTube and Upload Your Video
   If you (Entrant) are not an existing user of YouTube, you will be required to create a free user account at http://www.youtube.com/signup. Registration on YouTube must be completed before a video can be submitted. When you register your YouTube account, you will be required to agree to the YouTube Terms of Use, located at http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/, and the YouTube Privacy Policy, located at http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. Once you have a YouTube account, upload your video.
2. Fill Out Online Registration Form
   You (Entrant) must then go to the Nicholas School Green in 3 video contest site and submit the form with your name, e-mail address, phone number, YouTube user name, title of video submission, and the video url. Failure to submit the video url will negate your entry.

Registration must be completed by 11:59 p.m. (ET), Friday, March 21st, 2014
Steps (a) and (b) must be completed before you are officially entered into the Green in 3 contest. Failure to complete one of the steps will disqualify your entry from the contest.

You may enter up to two (2) Submissions as long as the same (or substantially similar) Submission is not uploaded more than once. IMPORTANT: Be sure to save your Submission in the original format after uploading it to YouTube. If you are a winner, you will need to provide Sponsor with your Submission in its original format in order for the Submission to be valid.

Contest winners will be notified via e-mail within seven (7) days of the contest closing date.

3. CONDITIONS OF ENTRY: As conditions of entry into this Contest and by uploading and entering a Submission, Entrant warrants and represents that the Submission (a) is original and has been legally created (b) does not infringe the intellectual property, privacy or publicity rights or any other legal or moral rights of any third party (c) has not been entered in or won previous contests or awards and (d) has not been published or distributed previously in any media. Entrant represents that he/she owns all rights to his/her Submission, including, without limitation, the copyrights in the recording and the performance contained therein. Entrant further represents and warrants that the Entrant has obtained permission from each person whose name, image, likeness or voice ("Likeness") is included in the Submission, and that such person(s) have granted Entrant all necessary rights to use the person's Likeness as described in these rules, and that Entrant can make written copies of such permissions available to the Sponsor upon request. If the Likeness of a minor is included, such grant of rights must include written permission from the minor's parent or legal guardian authorizing the use of the minor's likeness on behalf of the minor. By uploading a Submission, Entrant irrevocably grants Sponsor and its affiliates, legal representatives, assigns, agents and licensees, the unconditional and perpetual right and permission to reproduce, encode, store, copy, transmit, publish, post, broadcast, display, publicly perform, adapt, exhibit and/or otherwise use or reuse (without limitation as to when or to the number of times used), the Entrant's Submission, including, but not limited to, the recording and the performances contained therein (in each case, as submitted or as edited/modified in any way by the Sponsor, in its sole discretion), as well as to use Entrant's name, likeness, photograph (collectively, "Likeness"), and/or statements regarding his/her participation in this Contest (with or without using the Entrant's name) in any and all media without limitation as to time or territory, and without additional compensation or approval from the Entrant or any other party. Entrant waives intellectual property rights, privacy/publicity rights or other legal or moral rights that might preclude the Sponsor's use of the submission, and agrees not to sue or assert any claim against the Sponsor for the use of the Submission or Entrant's Likeness or statements. Entrant agrees to indemnify and hold Sponsor, its agencies and their respective affiliates, officers, directors, agents, co-branders or other partners, and any of their employees (collectively, the "Indemnities"), harmless from any and all claims, damages, expenses, costs (including reasonable attorneys' fees) and liabilities (including settlements), brought or asserted by any third party against any of the Indemnities due to or arising out of the Entrant's Submission, or the Entrant's conduct in creating a Submission or otherwise in connection with this Contest, including but not limited to claims for trademark infringement, copyright infringement violation of an individuals right of publicity or right of privacy or defamation. Entrant further agrees to release Sponsor from any and all claims that any advertising subsequently produced, presented, and/or prepared by or on behalf of Sponsor infringes Entrant's rights with regard to any elements, characters or ideas contained in any submission.

4. SUBMISSION FORMAT AND CONTENT REQUIREMENTS:

1. Creative Assignment: Convince us that we should adopt this new lifestyle change by letting us know how easy it is, how fun it can be or what benefits can come from it. Why is composting the most exciting part of the day? Why is raising chickens easier than we all thought it was? Your job, in 30 seconds, is to creatively advertise one thing you do to live sustainably. Shoot it with your video camera, your digital camera, your cell phone and upload it to YouTube and fill out our online submission form on the Nicholas School of the Environment Contest site. We are looking for fun and creative. (Just keep it tasteful!) Animation is acceptable.
   You write it. You cast it. You direct and shoot it. You have total creative control.
2. Technical Requirements: The maximum file size for any video file uploaded to YouTube is 100 MB. Video file(s) submitted to your YouTube account must be provided in one of the following file formats: avi, mov, mpg, or wmv. See the YouTube User Terms of Use for additional details.
3. Additional Requirements: The video must be no more than 30 seconds in length, including any tags. Once you complete and submit your video, your Submission is final and may not be modified or edited without permission from Sponsor. No Submissions will be returned. The person named as the registered owner of the user account on YouTube associated with the Submission and named on the Contest Registration form for the Submission must match, and that person will be deemed the entrant ("Entrant?). In the event of dispute regarding the identity of an Entrant, dispute will be resolved in favor of the individual who is the "authorized e-mail account holder" of the e-mail address provided when the YouTube user account was created. "Authorized e-mail account holder" is defined as the natural person assigned an e-mail address by an Internet access provider, online service provider, or other organization (i.e., business, educational institution) responsible for assigning e-mail addresses for the domain associated with the submitted e-mail address. Each Entrant must notify the Sponsor via the submission form that they have entered the contest, including their name, e-mail address, phone number, YouTube user name, title of video submission, and video url. If any group of individuals elects to collaborate on a Submission, they are required to designate one (1) representative to enter the Contest and accept the prize on behalf of the group. Neither Sponsor nor any of the Contest Parties are liable for any disputes between collaborators related to a Submission. Please note the following:
   Any elements in your Submission, including without limitation music, audio, speech/voiceovers, stills, video, supers, or other audiovisual materials used must be 1) entirely original, created and performed by you, or 2) be in the public domain. Use of any elements, including without limitation music, audio, speech/voiceovers, video, stills, visuals, or other materials that are not original or in the public domain, may result in disqualification of Submission, in Sponsor's sole discretion.

Submissions that do not comply with the YouTube Terms of Use or these Official Rules or that otherwise contain prohibited, or inappropriate content as determined by the Sponsor, in its sole discretion, will be disqualified and will not be considered for a prize.

Inappropriate Content
When YouTube users identify inappropriate content, as described in YouTube's Terms of Use (http://www.youtube.com/t/terms) and Community Guidelines (http://www.youtube.com/t/community_guidelines), they are able to flag the video. Each flagged video is promptly reviewed by YouTube administrators (24 hours a day, 7 days a week) who immediately remove any content that violates YouTube's Terms of Use.

5. SELECTION OF WINNING ENTRIES: Up to five (5) winners will be chosen. Winning entries will be combined together into a single 3-minute video, subject to Sponsor's right to edit the videos in Sponsor's sole discretion to comply with network guidelines or for any other reason. Limit one prize per person. Submissions will be judged by a panel of impartial judges put together by the Sponsor on a volunteer basis and the winners chosen by one judge selected by the Sponsor. The winning entries will shown at the Nicholas School?s Duke LEAF Award Ceremony held on the Duke University campus in Durham, N.C., on April 12 and will be posted on the Nicholas School?s website.

6. PRIZES: Up to five (5) PRIZES: $500.00 cash for each winner. Winning videos will be combined together in a single 3-minute video to be aired at the Nicholas School?s Duke LEAF Award Ceremony on April 12, and on the Nicholas School?s website. TOTAL ARV OF ALL PRIZES IN CONTEST IS: $2,500.

7. GENERAL CONDITIONS: All winners will be required to irrevocably assign and transfer to Sponsor any and all rights, title and interest in his/her Submission, including, without limitation, all copyrights, and agree to waive all moral rights in that Submission. Winners will be required to complete, sign and return a Consent & Release form. All completed documents must be returned to Sponsor within 7 business days of the date notice was sent or winning status will be forfeited and an alternate winner may be selected. The winners may also be required to sign additional documents, as deemed necessary by Sponsor in its sole discretion. Winners are solely responsible for any taxes on their respective prizes. No substitution of prize is offered, except at the sole discretion of the Sponsor. Prizes are non-transferable. If for any reason the Contest is not capable of running as planned, including without limitation, infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the Contest, Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion to cancel, modify or terminate the Contest. Further, Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual deemed to be (a) tampering or attempting to tamper with the entry process or the operation of the Contest or any Sponsor or YouTube (b) violating the Official Rules (c) violating the You Tube Terms of Service, or (d) acting in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person. Sponsor reserves the right to require winners to submit to a confidential background check to confirm eligibility as a condition of awarding the prize to help ensure that the use of any such person in advertising or publicity for the Contest will not bring Contest Parties into public disrepute, contempt, scandal or ridicule or reflect unfavorably on the Contest as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion.

8. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY AND RELEASE: No liability or responsibility is assumed by Sponsor or Contest Parties resulting from any user's participation in or attempt to participate in the Contest or ability or inability to upload or download any information in connection with participating in the Contest. No responsibility or liability is assumed by the Sponsor or Contest Parties for technical problems or technical malfunction arising in connection with any of the following occurrences which may affect the operation of the Contest: hardware or software errors faulty computer, telephone, cable, satellite, network, electronic, wireless or Internet connectivity or other online communication problems errors or limitations of any Internet service providers, servers, hosts or providers garbled, jumbled or faulty data transmissions failure of any e-mail transmissions to be sent or received lost, late, delayed or intercepted e-mail transmissions inaccessibility of the website in whole or in part for any reason traffic congestion on the Internet or the website unauthorized human or non-human intervention of the operation of the Contest, including without limitation, unauthorized tampering, hacking, theft, virus, bugs, worms or destruction of any aspect of the Contest, or loss, miscount, misdirection, inaccessibility or unavailability of an e-mail account used in connection with the Contest. Sponsor and Contest Parties are not responsible for any typographical errors in the announcement of prizes or these Official Rules, or any inaccurate or incorrect data contained on the website. Use of website is at user's own risk. Sponsor and the Contest Parties are not responsible for any personal injury or property damage or losses of any kind which may be sustained to user's or any other person's computer equipment resulting from participation in the Contest, use of the website or the download of any information from the website. By participating in the Contest, the Entrant releases Sponsor and Contest Parties from any and all claims, damages or liabilities arising from or relating to such Entrant's participation in the Contest. By accepting a prize in the Contest, winners agree that the Sponsor and Contest Parties shall not be liable for any loss or injury resulting from participation in the Contest, acceptance or use of any prize. Sponsor and Contest Parties are not liable in the event that any portion of the Contest is cancelled due to weather, fire, strike, acts of war or terrorism, or any other condition beyond their control (a "Force Majeure Event"). Should a Force Majeure Event occur, Sponsor may, but is not obligated to, exercise commercially reasonable efforts to air the winning videos at another time or make a reasonable substitution in its sole discretion.

9. SPONSOR: Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University
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