All property rights as well as all other rights, not specifically covered below, remain with the artist.

Documentation and Promotion of the Competition and the Results thereof: The organizer Ars Electronica Linz Gmbh & CO KG, the European Executive Agency for Education, Audiovisual and Culture alternatively the European Commission, the project partners (Center for promotion of science, Zaragoza City of Knowledge Foundation, Laboral, Kapelica Gallery, Science Gallery Dublin, Onassis Cultural Center, culturyard / clickfestival, GLUON, Hexagone Scène Nationale Arts Sciences, SOU Festival, le lieu unique, Waag Society) as well as sponsors of the European ARTficial Intelligence Lab desire to make the results of the competition accessible to an audience as large as possible. To achieve this end, a public relations campaign aimed at particular media outlets (press, radio, TV and Internet) will be conducted.

The works singled out for recognition by the juries will be documented (as a whole or in part) in the following media:

  • Ars Electronica Website (ars.electronica.art) and Ars Electronica archive (archive.aec.at)
  • Project website European ARTificial Intelligence Lab (ars.electronica.art/ailab)
  • Homepage and media of all project partners and sponsors
  • Homepage, media and storage of the European executive agency for education, audiovisual and culture alternatively the European Commission
  • Ars Electronica Festival catalogue and other brochures and publications

If the submitted work is selected and honoured by the jury the artist is committed to stay at the scientific institution, he/she/they applied for and the Ars Electronica Futurelab. The material will be used in the catalogue, in brochures and publications, the Ars Electronica website as well as on the websites of the project partners and on the websites of the several sponsors of the network. The participants will prepare text and material accordingly, entrants are respectfully requested to prepare graphics and texts meticulously and to submit them in the best possible quality.

The catalogue should be issued in conjunction with the Festival Ars Electronica. In order to promote the Festival and the European ARTificial Intelligence Lab, the website will go online prior to their being held. Due to technical and organizational constraints, Ars Electronica and the project partners reserve the right to determine the actual extent, timing and layout/editing of the above-mentioned publications and documentaries. There cannot be derived the duty to make publications and/or documentaries on the part of Ars Electronica, the European Union, the project partners or sponsors.

The European ARTificial Intelligence Lab is an integral part of the Ars Electronica Festival, in conjunction with intend to present, display or host a performance of the works honoured by the respective juries. The works honoured should also be presented in the framework of exhibitions and/or conferences at the cultural institutions of the project partners. The organizers reserve the right to determine which works will be included in such exhibitions. The entrants hereby consent to making their works available for this purpose.

Ars Electronica as well as the European Comission alternatively the European Executive Agency for Education, Audiovisual and Culture has an online-archive to collect digital media arts. Therefore, Ars Electronica intends to make the European ARTificial Intelligence Lab accessible to interested members of the public both on site and on the Internet. To that end, Ars Electronica has to take a non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, objective, time and place unset right to publish all submitted material in the online-archive as well as to present the submitted material at the exhibitions of Ars Electronica and the project partners.

The participants assign Ars Electronica, the European Executive Agency for Education, Audiovisual and Culture alternatively the European Commission and the project partners (Center for promotion of science, Zaragoza City of Knowledge Foundation, Laboral, Kapelica Gallery, Science Gallery Dublin, Onassis Cultural Center, culturyard / clickfestival, GLUON, Hexagone Scène Nationale Arts Sciences, SOU Festival, le lieu unique, Waag Society) the non-exclusive, factually, temporally and spatially unrestricted right to use the submitted works on existing and future video-streaming platforms (such as YouTube or Flickr) in connection with the European ARTificial Intelligence Lab, the exhibition of Ars Electronica and the exhibitions of the project partners’ No publication requirement on video-streaming platforms is imputed.

Since this tender is an integral part of a project in the context of EU Creative Europe at this point it must be referred to legal regulations within the EU grant, which is the basis of the European ARTificial Intelligence Lab. Ownership of the results of the action, including industrial and intellectual property rights, shall be vested in the beneficiaries. The European Executive Agency of Education, Audiovisual and Culture has the right to use the results of the residencies for its own purposes, and in particular, making available to persons working for the Agency, the Union institutions, agencies and bodies and to Member States institutions, as well as, copying and reproducing in whole or in part and in unlimited number of copies.

The entrant hereby declares that he/she is legally authorized to convey such rights to the extent stipulated above, that he/she has obtained any and all necessary consent from third parties as called for by regulations governing copyright, personal property rights or other such legal provisions, and that he/she is prepared to provide proof of such at any time if called upon by Ars Electronica.

The entrant will not take any action (especially the conveyance of rights to third parties), which are likely to affect the rights granted to Ars Electronica and/or the project partners, sponsors or the European Commission.

This agreement elaborating the terms of participation in the residency competition of European ARTficial Intelligence Lab is governed by Austrian law with the exception of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and all norms serving as legal reference (Verweisungsnormen). The place of jurisdiction is Linz.