Employees and immediate family relatives of IT’S ART staff, sponsors and judges cannot compete in the challenge.

Entries should be original and should remain unpublished outside of IT’S ART prior to the close of the challenge. Any entry deemed by the judges to be identical or substantially similar to any other entry previously entered may be disqualified as a derivative work.

The projet submited to this contest must be one of your personal work & creation, the workgroup project is not allowed.

Only one project per artist and contest.

Your project must be an original creation, copies, plagiats and modifications of existing project are not accepted. You must have all rights and copyrights of you artwork.

The project remains the property of the author taking part, but this last will not be able to require financial compensation in the event of use of its image of promotional ends.

W.I.P . (Work In Progress or works in progress) must be posted in IT'S ART forum WIP area, this guarantees to you to prove that this project is well of your realization by showing the various phases of realization from this one and to receive criticisms in order to possibly improve it.

No late entries will be accepted. IT’S ART will not be held responsible for late entries for any reason whatsoever. It is the sole responsibility of the entrants to make reasonable allowances for upload times and to plan accordingly.

Decisions by the Judges are final and no correspondence will be entered into.

Any import taxes or duties on prizes must be paid by the prize winner. It is neither practically possible nor ethically reasonable for IT’S ART or any of the sponsors to pay duties and taxes on behalf of a winner. IT’S ART and sponsors will not make false valuation claims to assist winners from evading any applicable duties and taxes.

By entering artwork to the competition the entrant warrants that they are the sole copyright holder, or they have obtained the rights sufficient for the purpose of the competition.

Entrants’ works can be offered separately as isolated works of art--print, etc.--or as part of a suite of prints, or posted on artist or web site(s), if they are accompanied with suitable credits to original works : if the work is to be used in a commercial context, permission must be granted in writing from the creator of the original work.

The entrant grants IT’S ART and competition sponsors rights to use all entered materials in any media for sales, marketing and merchandising material provided full and correct credit for the artist clearly appears with said materials.

The winners grant IT’S ART first right to publish their submitted work in any media.

Entrants should to notify IT’S ART in writing at least one week prior to the publication of their work in any media.

Other than the rights assigned in the preceding clauses entrants retain copyright of all entered materials and are free to use said materials for personal promotions.

IT’S ART will not return any material submitted.

IT’S ART may suspend a category if insufficient entries are received for that category to be considered viable and be
judged.

IT’S ART reserves the right to suspend, shorten, modify or cancel the challenge, including these rules, in any manner at its sole discretion with or without prior notice.

The final image if selected for print should fit a A4 page (2480x3508 or 3508x 2480 300dpi) but concerning for the web and Gallery the restrictions are those of the gallery (Only jpeg images of maximum 1600x1200 pixels are accepted / 512k max). IT'S ART will provide to selected artists, all details to upload the final illustration via FTP.