! CALLING ALL STUDENT DESIGNERS! POSTER DESIGN COMPETITION! PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN! ! “With public sentiment nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.” — Abraham Lincoln ! !Competition Overview! ! Help Massachusetts Turn the Tide on Fossil Fuels! Governor Deval Patrick has been a champion of clean energy and climate action, but it will take a wave of public support to ensure the success of the governor’s initiatives before his term is up.
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To submit your design visit: designmuseumboston.org/greenpatriotposters
We need you to design a powerful, memorable poster that: • Incorporates the phrase “Turn the Tide on Fossil Fuels!” • Conveys urgency, hope, solidarity, anger, or a sense that any individual can make a difference! • Addresses one or more of these themes: • Ban the Worst. No more coal, tar sands oil, or fracking in MA! • Build Only the Best. Only sustainable energy from now on! • Price the Rest. Make polluters pay! • Inspires people to join 350.org and Better the Future’s Climate Legacy Campaign.
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Table of Contents
Partners
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Competition Overview
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Schedule
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Background
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About Us
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Eligibility
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Design & Judging Criteria
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Prizes
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Submission Guidelines & Process
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Intellectual Property
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Jury
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Terms & Conditions
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Schedule!
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• Call for Entries opens: February 10, 2014 • Entries Due by: March 7, 2014 11:59pmEST • Preliminary Judging: March 10 - March 19, 2014 • Winner's Announced at Public Event: March 20, 2014 6:30pmEST
! ! ! Background! ! Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have burned massive quantities of oil, coal, and gas — collectively known as “fossil fuels” – to produce their energy. Mining, drilling, and burning fossil fuels has risked the health and safety of local communities for decades, producing grave social injustices. More recently, we have learned that fossil fuels are responsible for the global climate crisis, which presents an unprecedented threat to younger generations and the lives of millions around the world. We can still prevent the worst of the climate crisis, but we must move quickly — if we do not stop the expansion of new fossil fuel infrastructure in the next few years, the International Energy Agency has projected that we will be “locked in” to irreversible and unpredictable warming.
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In Massachusetts, Governor Deval Patrick has been a champion of clean energy and climate action. He signed into law several important acts during his first term in office, including the landmark Global Warming Solutions Act that set the most ambitious short-term climate goals in the nation.
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The challenge now is to realize the full potential of Governor Patrick’s climate and clean energy initiatives, setting Massachusetts on course to be powered by clean energy alone. Without a swell of public support before Governor Patrick leaves office, these goals will likely go unrealized.
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As Governor Deval Patrick’s term draws to a close, Better Future Project and its volunteer-led network 350 Massachusetts are building a wave of support behind the Governor called the Climate Legacy Campaign to truly turn the tide on fossil fuels in our Commonwealth. An important step is communicating to the public how we can build a better future for our Commonwealth by shifting away from fossil fuels and investing instead in clean energy. We believe that design and public messaging can play a key role in building such public sentiment. That is why we have launched this open call for poster designs. Help us spread the word and take action.
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About Us!
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Design Museum Boston is a public, nonprofit museum. Our mission is to educate the world on the role of design in our lives and to unite the community in ways that enrich our collective work, make businesses more competitive, and solve realworld problems more creatively. After all, design has the power to make our everyday lives more comfortable, more efficient, more exciting, more rewarding, more… better. We're a new kind of museum, one with no permanent address. Whether in a gallery, retail environment, public space, or on the web, our programming gives audiences new insights into the design process and the greater social, economic, and environmental contexts that both affect and are affected by design. We produce public exhibitions, events, and programs to show the who, why, and how behind the things we see and use everyday. Our latest exhibition: Green Patriot Posters: The Revolution Will Be Designed, features posters — designed by creative people all over the world — that inspire us to take action against climate change. For more information visit: designmuseumboston.org/greenpatriotposters
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The Canary Project produces art and media that deepen public understanding of human-induced climate change and energize commitment to solutions. Founded as a project to photograph landscapes throughout the world where scientists are studying the impacts of climate change, The Canary Project has since supported and launched diverse projects involving hundreds of artists, designers, writers, educators and scientists. Their focus is on cultivating research-intensive projects that contribute to knowledge building and are able to communicate that knowledge in a way that both respects complexity and inspires respect for life. For more information visit: canary-project.org
Green Patriot Posters is a multi-media public awareness and action campaign founded and launched by The Canary Project in 2008. During World War II, emotionally stirring propaganda posters commissioned by the U.S. government helped spur U.S. citizens “to do their part” in helping to supply, arm, and support troops fighting overseas. The surge in productivity ultimately led to Allied victory. Inspired by those World War II posters, Green Patriot Posters unites us all once again – this time to combat climate change. The campaign invites designers, illustrators, photographers, and artists to create poster-form artwork relating to any aspect of climate change and environmental justice. To date, Green Patriot has collected over 500 unique poster designs which have been seen by millions of people nationwide. For more information visit: greenpatriotposters.org
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Better Future Project is your client for the poster design competition. They are a nonprofit organization focused on building a grassroots movement for a better future free from the climate crisis and fossil fuels. Any Massachusetts resident can work with them to help solve the climate crisis by joining their volunteer-led network 350 Massachusetts. For more information visit: betterfutureproject.org
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350.org is an international environmental organization, building a global movement to raise awareness about anthropogenic climate change, to confront climate change denial, and to cut emissions of carbon dioxide. Their online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions are coordinated by a global network active in over 188 countries. For more information visit: 350.org
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Eligibility!
Design & Judging Criteria!
The Green Patriot Posters Student Design Competition is open to any high school (grades 9-12) or college undergraduate student currently enrolled in the state of Massachusetts. High school and college students will be judged on the same criteria.
Entries to this competition will be reviewed by our Judges on the following criteria:
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Individual students and student teams are encouraged to submit design entries. Multiple entries — from any one individual or individual as part of a team or multiple teams — are not permitted. In the case of a winning team, members agree to share the prizes.
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Employees, board members, and interns of Design Museum Boston and their immediate family members are ineligible to take part in this competition. Immediate family members and employees of our Partners or Judges are also ineligible. Posters featuring inappropriate or explicit words, phrases, or images will not be accepted.
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For questions about eligibility please email: info@designmuseumboston.org
!! Prizes! ! All Entries will be: !
• Featured in an online gallery on: designmuseumboston.org/greenpatriotposters
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• Featured on greenpatriotposters.org to be seen around the world as part of the Green Patriot Posters movement.
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• Printed and displayed during the Student Competition Gallery & Awards Night on 3/20 at 6:30pm at 315 on A — 315 A St. Boston, MA 02210
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• Message: does the poster effectively convey the message of Better Future Project's Climate Legacy Campaign to Turn the Tide on Fossil Fuels?
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• Call to Action: does the poster have clear impact and call the public to action to make changes and do their part to solve the climate crisis?
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• Design: does the poster design convey the message and call to action in a way that is visually unique and aesthetically pleasing?
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3 Winning Entries, chosen by judges, will be:
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• Printed and added to Design Museum's national touring exhibition Green Patriot Posters: The Revolution Will Be Designed
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• Featured in print and online in Better Future Project's Climate Legacy Campaign to raise public awareness and call people to action
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• Printed and featured in a public awareness campaign around the City of Boston Prizes are subject to change. ! / 10 5 !
! Submission Guidelines & Process! ! Entry is free! One entry per student, if students form a team they each confirm the team entry is their one entry.
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All entries must be submitted digitally and will be reviewed by the jury anonymously. Thus, all submitted posters must be free from any marks, logos, or writing that identifies authorship. The presence of any such insignia will result in disqualification. Your name(s) and affiliation(s) will be added later if your design is selected by the Judges.
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The following items are required to complete your entry:
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• Print-Ready Poster: prepare your poster as a 24" wide x 36" tall, high-resolution (300dpi) PDF, with .25" bleed on all sides — however, do not submit this file, simply save it. If your poster is chosen by the judges, we will request this file to print and feature in the exhibition and public awareness campaign.
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• Digital Poster: to prepare your design for upload, create a PDF version of your poster file that is 8" wide x 12" tall, 150dpi, with no bleed, maximum file size: 10mb — this is the file you will submit online for judging. Name your file to match this template: lastname_firstname_gpp.pdf. Incorrectly named files will be disqualified.
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• A short description of your poster and what you're trying to achieve with the design, 150 word maximum.
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To submit your design visit: designmuseumboston.org/greenpatriotposters
! ! ! Intellectual Property! ! Intellectual and creative property remains with the individual designer or is shared by the design team. Each student or team grants Design Museum Boston, Green Patriot Posters, and Better Future Project a non-commercial, non-exclusive, nontransferable, and non-sub-licensable license for educational, public awareness, and promotional purposes. See the Terms & Conditions for details. Green Patriot Posters Student Design Competition Call for Entries
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Jury!
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Daran Brossard Art Director, Arnold Worldwide
Jane Marsching Associate Professor, Mass. College of Art and Design
Daran Brossard is a designer and art director at Arnold Worldwide in Boston. He graduated as a graphic designer from The Art Institute of California, San Diego, and mainly focuses on branding, identity, and illustration design. His portfolio includes work for Jack Daniel’s, Boston Bruins, Independent Film Festival Boston, San Francisco Zoo and HUMAIN. In 2009 he received a Silver ADDY from the American Advertising Federation.
Interdisciplinary artist, Jane D. Marsching explores our past, present and future human impact on the environment through interdisciplinary and collaborative research-based practices. Recent exhibitions include: The DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; San Jose Museum of Art, CA; Galerie Lucy Mackintosh, Lausanne, Switzerland; the ICA Boston; and MassMoCA; and Allson Skirt Gallery, Boston. She has received grants from Creative Capital, Artadia, Mass Cultural Council, and others. Recent publications include: Far Field: Digital Culture, Climate Change and the Poles (Intellect 2011). At Massachusetts College of Art and Design she is Associate Professor and Sustainability Fellow.
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Jennie Kalberer Director of Marketing & Analytics, Gerding Edlen Jennie Kalberer oversees marketing for new projects and existing buildings. She conducts in-depth assessments of each market and works in underwriting, positioning, and branding each asset. In collaboration with architects and construction teams, she ensures that community spaces and programming align with overall strategy. Jennie sits on the board of Oregon College of Art and Craft and Kahnaway Art and Ecology. She is committed to art education and building community through art and design. Jennie holds a BFA in sculpture and drawing from Oregon College of Art and Craft and an MBA in Finance from the University of Portland.
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Paul D. Miller DJ Spooky Paul D. Miller aka DJ SPOOKY is a composer, multimedia artist and writer. His book Sound Unbound, an anthology of writings on electronic music and digital media is a bestselling title from MIT Press. He's produced and composed work for Yoko Ono, Thurston Moore, and scores of artists and awardwinning films. In 2011, Miller released a graphic design campaign exploring the impact of climate change on Antarctica through the prism of digital media and contemporary music compositions.
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Benita Hussain Policy & Communications Advisor, Office of the Mayor
Nancy Skolos Dean of Architecture & Design, RISD
Benita Hussain is a co-manager of Greenovate Boston, the City of Boston's sustainability initiative and community engagement arm of the City's Climate Action Plan. Trained as a lawyer and journalist, she heads up Greenovate's marketing and business outreach, and she has a particular love for art and outdoor adventure as tools for environmental education.
Nancy Skolos is a partner in the interdisciplinary design and photography studio Skolos-Wedell. The studio pushes the boundaries of graphic design and photography, creating collaged, illusory images influenced by modern painting and architecture. Award winning and widely published, they are included in museum collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Library of Congress, and MoMA. Skolos is an elected member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale and a Boston AIGA Fellow. She has a BFA from Cranbrook and an MFA from Yale and is serving as the Dean of Architecture and Design at the Rhode Island School of Design.
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Edward Morris Co-Founder, Green Patriot Posters Edward Morris is an artist, entrepreneur and sustainability advocate. In 2006 he co-founded The Canary Project, an organization that produces art and media that deepen public understanding of climate change. In 2008 Morris was awarded a Loeb Fellowship from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and he currently teaches in the TransMedia department at Syracuse University. He is the co-author of Green Patriot Posters (Metropolis Books, 2010) and a principal at Lynx Insights & Investigations and Lynx Workflow, a software developer for professional services.
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Florencia Rodriguez Architect, Editorial Director, Piedra, Papel y Tijera Florencia Rodriguez is an architect and critic as well as founder and editorial director of Piedra, Papel y Tijera publishers in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her editorial work is complemented by other development and dissemination activities aimed at triggering cultural “agitation� to provoke and inspire a collective evolution of the discipline. In 2010 Rodriguez created the publication PLOT, a platform committed to the dissemination of practices and critical thinking about contemporary architecture. Green Patriot Posters Student Design Competition Call for Entries
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Dorian Williams Campaigns Organizer, Better Future Project Dorian Williams grew up in Chicago, and graduated from Brandeis in 2013 where she studied Anthropology. She has been working for the past four years to build the climate movement in Massachusetts. As a leading member of Students for a Just and Stable Future, she has worked on a number of campaigns including The Leadership Campaign, Tar Sands Action and Divestment. Dorian now works with Better Future Project as the statewide organizer of The Climate Legacy Campaign.
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! Terms & Conditions! !
These Terms and Conditions are agreed between Design Museum Boston, Better Future Project, and Green Patriot Posters (jointly: “Organizers”) and the student poster designer (“Designer”), an Individual taking part in the Green Patriot Posters Student Design Competition by uploading a unique poster design (“Poster”). Organizers and Designer mutually agree to the terms and conditions of this License Agreement. Organizers wishes to obtain limited rights to use Designer’s Poster for the purposes indicated below. Designer is willing to permit that use subject to the following terms and conditions. 1. Definitions 1.1 “Licensed Material” means the unique poster design uploaded to the Green Patriot Posters online campaign. 1.2 “Licensed Use” means posters will be used within and to promote a traveling exhibition of Green Patriot Posters which will educate the public on the design of posters as a means of mass communication and as a way to raise awareness and call people to action around global climate change as part of a public awareness campaign. 2. Grant of Rights 2.1 Designer grants Organizers a nonexclusive, non-transferrable and non-sub-licensable license right to use the Licensed Material, solely for the Licensed Use, and subject to all restrictions specified in this Agreement. 2.2 The rights granted to Organizers by Designer and obtained by Organizers as a result of or in connection with this Agreement are limited use license rights only, and nothing in this Agreement assigns any or all of Designer’s ownership rights in the Licensed Material. 3. Use of the Licensed Material 3.1 The rights granted under this Agreement are limited to the Licensed Use. Organizers represents that any actual or ultimate product incorporating the Licensed Material will be a faithful rendition of use. 3.2 Organizers may crop Licensed Material, provided that the editorial integrity of the Licensed Material is not compromised, but may not, under any circumstances, alter, change, or tamper with Licensed Material without Designers express written permission. 3.3 Designer’s trademarks, logos, and service marks, are and will remain the sole property of Designer. Nothing in this Agreement confers upon Organizers any right of ownership in Designer’s trademarks, logos, or service marks. 3.4 In partial consideration for the license conveyed hereby, Organizers agrees not to, directly or indirectly, challenge, contest, impair, or invalidate Designer’s rights in Designer’s Poster as it relates to the Licensed Use. 3.5 Organizers agrees to include a credit line adjacent to the Licensed Material. 3.6 Organizers must immediately notify Designer if it becomes aware or suspects that any third party that has gained access to the Licensed Material through Organizers or is wrongfully using the Licensed Material, in whole or in part, or is violating any of Designer’s intellectual property rights. 4. Prohibited Uses 4.1 Organizers may not at any time: 4.1.1 Use Licensed Material for any commercial or merchandising use, unless Designer has granted additional rights as specifically set out in Exhibit A or by express written consent; 4.1.2 Use any colorable imitation of any Licensed Material, or any variant form of any Licensed Material not specifically approved; 4.1.3 Incorporate Licensed Material into a logo, trademark, or service mark; 4.1.4 Make Licensed Material available in any medium in a manner intended to allow or invite persons to extract or alter Licensed Material; 4.1.5 Take any action that would bring Licensed Material into public disrepute including use of Licensed Material for any defamatory, or otherwise unlawful use, whether directly or in context or juxtaposition with specific subject matter; or 4.1.6 Make any claim or indication that Designer endorses Organizers’s products or services or portray itself as an agent, servant, or employee of Designer. 5. Transfer of License and Licensed Material 5.1 Designer will provide Poster to Organizers free of charge, to support the Organizers’ educational and public awareness mission, granting the rights to use the Licensed Material under this Agreement. 6. Disclaimers, Limitation of Liability, and Indemnification 6.1 Designer represents that it, according to its information and belief, has all necessary rights and authority to enter into and perform this Agreement. Except as to Designer’s own copyrights or trademarks, Designer has not obtained any permissions, licenses, or releases for the use of any names, likenesses, trademarks, service marks, logos, or works of authorship depicted in the Licensed Material and Organizers is solely responsible for determining what other, if any, permissions, licenses, or releases are necessary for the Licensed Use. 6.2 Designer makes no other representations or warranties, express or implied, as to the Licensed Material, including, without limitation, any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Designer will not be liable for any punitive, special, indirect, consequential, or incidental damages, or any other damages, costs, or losses arising out of this Agreement, even if Designer has been advised of the possibility of such damages, costs, or losses. 6.3 Organizers must defend, indemnify, and hold Designer harmless from all damages, liabilities, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or as a result of claims by third parties relating to: 6.3.1 Organizers’s use of any Licensed Material outside the scope of this Agreement; 6.3.2 Any other actual or alleged breach by Organizers of this Agreement; or 6.3.3 Organizers’s failure to obtain any required permission, license, or release. 7. Term and Termination 7.1 The term of this Agreement is set out in Exhibit A, unless terminated earlier under this Article 7. 7.2 This Agreement and all rights granted under this Agreement will automatically terminate without notice from Designer if Organizers: 7.2.1 Breaches any term of this Agreement and fails to remedy the breach within 30 days of receiving written notice of the breach from Designer; 7.2.2 Attempts to assign, sublicense, transfer, or otherwise convey rights under this Agreement, without first obtaining Designer’s written consent, any of the rights granted to Organizers under this Agreement; 7.2.3 Uses the Licensed Material in a manner in violation of, or otherwise inconsistent with, the restrictions imposed by or in connection with Article 3 of this Agreement; or 7.2.4 Uses the Licensed Material in a manner not expressly permitted by this Agreement. 7.3 All rights granted by this Agreement, including, without limitation, Organizers’s right to use the Licensed Material, will expire upon termination of this Agreement, and upon termination Organizers must immediately cease and desist from all use of the Licensed Material. 8. General Provisions 8.1 Relationship of the Parties. Nothing contained in the Agreement shall be construed as creating any agency, partnership, or other form of joint enterprise between the Parties. The Green Patriot Posters Student Design Competition Call for Entries
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relationship between the Parties shall at all times be that of independent contractors. Neither Party shall have authority to contract for or bind the other in any manner whatsoever. The Agreement confers no rights upon either Party except those expressly granted herein. 8.2 Notices. Notices or other communications required by this Agreement will be sufficiently made or given if emailed or mailed to the address stated below, or to the last address specified in writing by the intended recipient. 8.2.1 If to Designer: email address on record at Organizers 8.2.2 If to Organizers: Design Museum Boston, PO Box 990938 Boston, MA 02199 or info@designOrganizersboston.org 8.3 Assignment. This Agreement, with the rights and privileges it creates, is assignable only with the written consent of both Parties. 8.4 Governing Law. The Agreement shall be construed in accordance with, and all disputes hereunder, shall be governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 8.5 Headings. Headings are solely for convenience of reference and are not part of, and may not be used to construe, this Agreement. 8.6 Severability. If any provision of this Agreement is invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions will not in any way be affected or impaired. A waiver of any breach of this Agreement does not waive any other breach of the same or other provision of this Agreement. A waiver is not effective unless made in writing. 8.7 Entire Agreement. This Agreement contains the entire understanding of the Parties as to the Licensed Material, and supersedes all other written and oral agreements between the Parties as to the Licensed Material. This Agreement may be modified only by a written amendment signed by the Parties. Agreed to and Accepted by uploading Poster and taking part in the competition.
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