Cartoon Caption Contest: Official Rules

No purchase or payment of any kind is necessary to enter or win this contest

To enter, fill in the information on this page. There is no limit on the number of captions you can submit. Entries that are lost, late, misdirected, garbled, or incompletely received for any reason, including by reason of hardware, software, browser, or network failure, malfunction, congestion, or incompatibility on the website or elsewhere, will not be eligible. The Center for Reproductive Rights, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to disqualify any person tampering with the entry process, the operation of the website, or otherwise in violation of the rules. It further reserves the right to cancel, terminate, or modify any Cartoon Caption Contest not capable of completion as planned, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, force majeure, or technical failures of any sort.

Entrants represent and warrant that their Submission is their original work, it has not been copied from others, and it does not violate the rights of any other person or entry.

All entry materials become the property of the Center for Reproductive Rights and will not be acknowledged or returned. The copyright in any submission shall remain the property of the entrant, but entry in this Contest constitutes entrant’s irrevocable, perpetual permission and consent, without further compensation or attribution, to use the Submission and the entrant’s name and city and state for editorial, advertising, commercial, and publicity purposes by the Sponsor and/or others authorized by the Sponsor, in any and all media now in existence or hereinafter created, throughout the world, for the duration of the copyright in the Submission. Sponsor and/or others authorized by the Sponsor shall have the right to edit, adapt, and modify the Submission. Each entrant releases and discharges the Sponsor, the judges, any party associated with the development or administration of the Contest, their employees, agents or representatives or any of their parents, subsidiaries, sister companies, or affiliates from any and all liability in connection with the Contest, including without limitation, legal claims, costs, injuries, losses or damages, demands or actions of any kind.

Three finalists will be selected from each cartoon by the Center for Reproductive Rights. The finalists will be announced in the August 25, 2011, issue of the ReproWrites eNewsletter. All six finalists’ captions will be published on the Cartoon Caption Contest page, along with each finalist’s name and city and state. All decisions of the Judge(s) are final and binding.

The winner for each cartoon will be the person whose caption receives the greatest number of valid votes (“Votes”) from the public and who satisfies all of the rules (“Qualified Winner”). Anyone can vote for their favorite captions. There is no limit on the number of times you can vote.

The Center for Reproductive Rights will tabulate the Votes and announce the winner in an email on August 31, 2011. All decisions of the Center for Reproductive Rights are final and binding.

The Qualified Winners of the Cartoon Caption Contest will each receive a print of the cartoon, with the caption and a gift bag (the “Prize”). If the winner cannot be contacted or does not respond within three (3) days, an alternate winner may be selected, at the sole discretion of the Center for Reproductive Rights. The Prize has no retail value. Income and other taxes, if any, are the sole responsibility of the winner.

Subject to all applicable laws and regulations. Void where prohibited.

The Prize is not transferable. No substitutions for the Prize except by the Center for Reproductive Rights, in which case a prize of equal or greater value will be substituted.

All entries become the property of the Center for Reproductive Rights and will not be acknowledged or returned. Except where prohibited: (i) acceptance of the Prize constitutes consent to use winner’s name, likeness, and winning entry for editorial, advertising, and publicity purposes, without further compensation, (ii) winner may be required to sign an affidavit of eligibility and copyright transfer/liability/publicity/permission release. If the winner is deemed to be a minor under the jurisdiction of his/her residence, the parent or legal guardian must execute the necessary affidavit and release. Affidavits and releases must be returned within ten (10) days of attempted notification or an alternate winner may be chosen.