11. Granting of rights
a) Rights to the spots
Only the participants in the competition shall enjoy any and all intellectual property rights to the uploaded spots. They shall be the only ones – except for the rights granted in the following – who are entitled to dispose of them. By uploading a spot, the artist grants KÖR Wien and/or INFOSCREEN the right to reproduce the film in the required number for the jury members and send it to them for the jury meeting. Regarding the award-winning spots, the participants in the competition shall grant the rights described in the following:

b) Granting of rights
By uploading spots according to item 5, the participants in the competition irrevocably grant KÖR Wien and INFOSCREEN the unrestricted right in terms of subject matter, space and time to exploit the spots. KÖR Wien and INFOSCREEN shall be entitled to exploit the spots in any type of use currently known or which becomes known in the future either themselves or via third parties and make them known by publishing them, particularly reproducing, disseminating, transferring or showing them in a wireless or wired form, presenting them and making them available („right of exploitation“). With exploitation of a spot, the participant in the competition shall in each case be named as the creator. KÖR Wien and INFOSCREEN shall be entitled especially without any payment obligation to show, disseminate, reproduce or publish the uploaded spots in other forms such as advertising announcements or reports about the competition, whether in their own or other publications, fully or shortened, and use them for advertising purposes. Any exploitation of the spots which exceeds this scope, is financially profitable or for advertising and pursues purposes other than presenting the competition or
the communications and PR-activities of KÖR Wien or INFOSCREEN shall be excluded from this right of exploitation and shall require a separate agreement.

c) Declaration of participants in the competition
The participants in the competition declare to be the sole creators of the spots and the materials required for them and/ or be equipped with the necessary rights to submit the spot and transfer the rights to the work to KÖR Wien and INFOSCREEN, and specifically not to have removed any parts unlawfully from the content of other works within the meaning of the Copyright Act (Urheberrechtsgesetz), and also to have any and all required permits and approvals of depicted persons or works of art. The participants declare their compliance with the transparency obligations under the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (Article 50). The participants in the competition shall indemnify and hold KÖR Wien and INFOSCREEN harmless in case any claims are raised by third parties due to alleged violations of rights resulting from the use of the spots as part of the granting of rights including any lawyers’
and court fees.

12. Prize
The prize money amounts to EUR 1,000 net.
This shall compensate for the granting of rights. Any further cost reimbursement or compensation for expenses shall be excluded. This prize money shall be payable to each winner selected in the course of the jury meeting. In addition, the award-winning works submitted in response to the call for an artistic spot on the subject of “Humans and Intelligent Machines” will be shown on the INFOSCREEN displays of the Austrian network for eight weeks each in 2026. The short films cannot be shown in Vienna subway
stations or on the stationary screens at Linz Central Station due to the program structure.

13. Compensation for expenses
The participants in the competition who are not among the winners shall not be granted any compensation for expenses.

14. Return of the spots
The spots that have been uploaded to KÖR Wien’s subsite as well as any copies made for the jury which do not come from the selected winners shall be deleted by the end of June 2026. The spots shall not be returned. Therefore, the participants in the competition shall themselves be responsible for backing up the spot.