GNFF-555 is hereby granted the right to utilize an excerpt from any film submitted and accepted for exhibition at the festival for promotional purposes. The individual or corporation submitting the film hereby warrants that it is authorized to commit the film for screening, and understands and accepts these requirements and regulations. The undersigned shall indemnify and hold harmless GNFF-555 Film Festival from and against all claims, liabilities, losses, damages, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney’s fees, and costs of the court) which may be incurred by reason of any claim involving copyright, trademark, credits, publicity, screening, and loss of or damage to the screening videos entered.
Intellectual Property Rights
Each participant undertakes and guarantees to submit only those films for which he/she owns the copyrights and rights of use and which do not infringe upon any third-party rights whatsoever. The participant bears sole responsibility for any infringement of copyrights or other rights of third parties by the participant (e.g., music, film excerpts from other productions …) and undertakes to indemnify and hold the organiser free from any liability regarding claim/ claims of third parties in this context. Furthermore, any film(s) containing racist, sexist, religiously derogatory or inflammatory content will be excluded from the competition. Every film must have all the rights for everything that is used in it.
Each participant gives his/her exclusive & explicit consent that the submitted (film) material may be publicly screened and used in connection with the GNFF-555. The GNFF-555 is expressly entitled to use material of the submitted films for the purposes of promotion and marketing of the festival. This includes film texts, poster art and film stills. The festival also reserves the right to make a password-protected copy of the film available to representatives of the press, presenters or selected professional visitors.