The #StayHomeStudio Contest (“Contest”) is a voluntary contest that is subject to these Official Rules (“Official Rules”) as made available on https://pro.harman.com/lp/stayhomestudio-t-cs.
The Contest is sponsored by Harman International Industries Limited, a private limited company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales , having its registered office at Ground Floor, Westside Two London Road, Apsley, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England, HP3 9TD (the “Sponsor”), and in association with SBTV. These Official Rules form a binding legal agreement between you and Sponsor with respect to any issues arising from the Contest. These Official Rules are provided to Entrants on the landing page of the Contest and the URL directing to these Official Rules are provided in the promotional materials.
Eligibility: The Contest is open to legal residents who are the age of majority in each of the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, and Netherlands and who meet the requirements of these Official Rules (“Eligible Entrant”). Employees of the Sponsor or any of its affiliated companies, subsidiaries and advertising/promotion agencies and their immediate family members are not eligible to participate. The Contest is subject to all applicable laws, rules and regulations and is void where prohibited.
Contest Period: The Contest begins at 08:00 amCentral European Time (“CET”) on Friday, May 8, 2020, and ends at 11:59:59 p.m. CET on Friday, May 22, 2020 (the “Contest Entry End Date”), the contest period from beginning to end being the “Contest Period”.
Entries for the Contest must be received by the Contest Entry End Date according to Sponsor’s internal time clock. Entries will not be considered if received after the Contest Entry End Date regardless of cause.
Winner announcement: Winners shall be notified by direct message to the account used to submit their entry on May 25, 2020, in accordance with these Official Rules and using the information contained in the Eligible Entrant’s entry and will be provided a Declaration of Eligibility. Mobile charges or messaging rates may apply depending upon your mobile carrier. The winner must respond within 24 hours after receipt of such notification with the signed Declaration of Eligibility.
The failure to respond timely to any notification may result in forfeiture of the prize and, in such case, Sponsor may select an alternate Winner up to three (3) attempts. The Eligible Entrant selected as next Runner-Up may be selected if a Winner: (i) cannot be reached and/or fails to respond timely to any notification; (ii) fails, where required, to obtain all signatures on the Release and to return the documents in a timely manner as required pursuant to these Official Rules; or (iii) cannot accept or receive the prize for any reason. Winners will receive additional Prize arrangement details once eligibility is determined. In the event of a dispute about the identity of a Winner, each entry will be declared made by the authorized account holder of the email or social media account submitted at time of entry.
Winner announcement: Winners shall be notified by direct message to the account used to submit their entry on May 25, 2020, in accordance with these Official Rules and using the information contained in the Eligible Entrant’s entry and will be provided a Declaration of Eligibility. Mobile charges or messaging rates may apply depending upon your mobile carrier. The winner must respond within 24 hours after receipt of such notification with the signed Declaration of Eligibility.
The failure to respond timely to any notification may result in forfeiture of the prize and, in such case, Sponsor may select an alternate Winner up to three (3) attempts. The Eligible Entrant selected as next Runner-Up may be selected if a Winner: (i) cannot be reached and/or fails to respond timely to any notification; (ii) fails, where required, to obtain all signatures on the Release and to return the documents in a timely manner as required pursuant to these Official Rules; or (iii) cannot accept or receive the prize for any reason. Winners will receive additional Prize arrangement details once eligibility is determined. In the event of a dispute about the identity of a Winner, each entry will be declared made by the authorized account holder of the email or social media account submitted at time of entry.
Entries may be selected as part of a curated playlist to be shared with Sponsor’s retail partners. Sponsor reserves the right to exclude any entry that it believes, in its sole discretion, does not meet the above criteria or contains any material with which the Sponsor does not wish to associate itself, in its sole discretion.
Prize Level | Prizes and ARV |
Grand Prize |
Total Approximate Retail Value: £ 7764 or € 8929 |
The Winning Entrants will receive the Grand Prize and the Winning Entrants must collaborate to create a three track EP, all original compositions with lyrics (“Original Tracks”) in which the Winning Vocalist Entry will perform the Original Tracks. The Winning Entrants must video record the process of creating and performing the Original Tracks while using the equipment contained in the Grand Prize and deliver such recordings promptly to the Sponsor to enable the Sponsor and SBTV to use the recordings to further promote the Contest (“The Video Content”). SBTV and Sponsor will provide criteria or guidelines for the Original Tracks and The Video Content. SBTV and Sponsor will release The Video Content (in formats and at intervals deemed appropriate and agreed between Sponsor, SBTV and Winning Entrants) between May 27, 2020 and June 4, 2020, on their social media channels, website, and other platforms or channels as designated by SBTV and Sponsor. The Winning Entrants must be available to produce and participate in other content such as but not limited to third party video streams, interviews, podcasts, and webinars. The activity plan will be defined and provided with the winning notification and agreed upon with the Winning Entrants at the time of acceptance of the Grand Prize. The Original Tracks will be released on June 5, 2020, and distributed for sale by SBTV on digital streaming platforms and other platforms as they so designate.
By receiving the Grand Prize, the Winning Entrants agree that the created Original Tracks will be used by SBTV and Sponsor to exploit by way of communicating to the public, distributing, offering for sale and selling to the public with all profits from the sale donated to charities located in the home country (or countries) of the Winning Entrants. SBTV and Sponsor will select the charities at their sole discretion. The Winning Entrants will be joint owners of copyright in the Original Tracks and agree to grant a perpetual, worldwide, non-revocable, royalty-free license to SBTV and Sponsor to exploit the Original Tracks as they see fit including by way of digital streaming platforms, music agencies, or other platforms/outlets in which to offer the music for sale to the public for charitable purposes. Such license includes the right for SBTV and Sponsor to promote this Contest and to promote their respective companies and/or products and services worldwide and on any medium including digital or print without further compensation due to the Winning Entrants. The Winning Entrants further agree to unconditionally and irrevocably waive (and to the extent that a waiver is not permissible under applicable law, agree not to assert) all moral rights in the Original Tracks (and any updates or revisions thereto).
No substitution, transfer, or cash redemption of prize permitted, provided however that Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize with another prize of equal or greater value should the advertised prize become unavailable for any reason. Winner cannot assign or transfer their prize to another person or entity. Winner is solely responsible for any local taxes on prize and may be requested to sign a tax form upon Sponsor’s request. No more than the stated number of prizes will be awarded. If there are not enough eligible entries, then less than the stated number of prizes, or no prize, will be awarded.
All costs not expressly stated above are the responsibility of each individual Winner. Delivery of Prize will be made after Sponsor verifies that Winner has met all eligibility requirements.
The Sponsor shall not be obliged to replace the Prize, the notification or its contents in which the Prize is awarded if it is lost after dispatch or destroyed.
Winner must abide by the terms, conditions and policies of the used social media platform and any other third-party service provided as part of the Prize. Sponsor and any of such third-party vendors who provide the services as part of the Prize reserve the right to remove the Prize or any part of the Prize or to refuse collaboration with a Winning Entrant who engage(s) in a disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person as part of the Contest.
Entry Judging: All eligible entries received during the Contest Period will be reviewed based on the following criteria:
For Producers:
For Vocalists:
The panel of judges appointed by Sponsor in its sole discretion will select the top two (2) entries (one vocalist and one producer) as potential winners from among all eligible entries received during the Entry Contest Period based on the above criteria.
Sponsor will send the full names of the judges to anyone who submits a request to Sponsor’s address above within one (1) month after the Entry Close Date requesting details of the judges.
Tie-breaker: In the event of a tie at any level of judging, the panel of judges will re-evaluate the entries according to the criteria above until the tie is broken. The tied entries will be reconsidered until the tie is broken, in the judges’ sole discretion.
The decisions of the judges are final and binding.
Personal details: The Sponsor or its affiliates shall collect only those personal details that have been expressly and freely given by the Eligible Entrant in the context of this Contest. Personal details that are furnished shall be used only for the Contest and/or such purpose for which the Eligible Entrant has furnished the data. In particular, the Eligible Entrant agrees to allow Sponsor to process and publicise the name and image of Eligible Entrant and their country of citizenship and to reproduce and communicate to the public any Video featuring Eligible Entrant that Eligible Entrant submits to Sponsor as its Eligible Entry. The Sponsor shall handle the personal details in accordance with the applicable statutory requirements. These personal details shall not be furnished to third parties without prior consent, except in the event the Sponsor is obliged thereto on the basis of statutory provision or a court decision.
The Sponsor shall use the furnished personal details for the administration of this Contest only, unless Eligible Entrants have given permission for information to be used for marketing and promotional purposes ncluding by SBTV and SBTV’s agents who will be assisting with the administration and promotion of this Contest and the distribution of the Original Tracks and the Content in accordance with these Official Rules
Please see our privacy policy, which can be found on Sponsor’s website. For UK: https://uk.jbl.com/privacy-policy.html. For Netherlands: https://www.jbl.nl/privacy-policy.html. For Belgium: https://be.jbl.com/privacy-policy.html.