Intellectual Property Rights

All submissions to the HackZurich Hackathon remain the intellectual property of the individuals that developed them. We encourage participants to open source their projects to both share their hacks with the greater community and promote innovation in this space.

Protection of Intellectual Property

By submitting a HackZurich Hackathon Entry or accepting any prize, participants have to represent and warrant the following: (a) they will not submit content that is copyrighted, protected by trade secret or otherwise subject to third party intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights, including privacy and publicity rights, unless participants are the owner of such rights or have permission from their rightful owner to post the content and to grant HackZurich Hackathon all of the rights granted herein; (b) participants will not publish falsehoods or misrepresentations that could damage HackZurich Hackathon, Sponsors, or any third party; (c) participants will not submit content that is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, libelous, threatening, pornographic, harassing, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, violate any law, or is otherwise inappropriate or destructive to HackZurich Hackathon or Sponsors' brand image or goodwill; (d) participants will not post advertisements or solicitations of business; (e) the content submitted by the participant does not contain any viruses, Trojan horses, worms or other disabling devices or harmful code.

By posting or submitting a HackZurich Entry to the Contest (regardless of the form or medium of such content), participants hereby grant HackZurich a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, non- exclusive right and license, with the right to sublicense, to discuss, publicize, market and otherwise display content derived from or relating to the HackZurich Entry (only valid for Marketing Content), and to distribute and use such Marketing Content for promotional and marketing purposes (either in the form submitted or in the form of a derivative or adapted work). Participants understand that they will not receive any compensation or credit for use of participants HackZurich Entry, other than what is described in these Official Contest Rules.

Copyright

Participant represents and warrants that he or she is the sole author and copyright owner of the Submission, and that the Submission is an original work of the Participant, or if the Submission is a work based on an existing application, that the Participant has acquired sufficient rights to use and to authorize others, including the HackZurich, to use the Submission, as specified in the “Intellectual Property Rights” section of the Rules; and that the Submission does not infringe upon any copyright or upon any other third party rights of which the Participant is aware, and that the Submission is free of malware.