The Ant Theater Scholarships Foundation Corp.
SORRY TO HAVE BEEN AWAY. DEATH IN THE FAMILY. UPDATES SOON.
IF YOU LOVE MEDIA and THEATER ARTS, YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT PLACE!
UPDATE: WE ARE NOW 501c3 !!!
WE WILL NOW BUILD OUT THIS SITE UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
IF YOU WANT TO DO MORE, YOU WILL WANT TO GO FURTHER INTO THIS SITE Next Week!
EARLIER, we commend the GlobeToGlobe Project, as it tours the Globe, tonight performing at the Folger Theater, Folger Library, in Washington, D.C. (which Globe's webmaster oddly listed as a Country, omitting the USA).
How does one send a DMCA notice to take copyright infringing material down from our site?
DMCA Takedown requests
Because we allow third parties to post content to our website, a third party may innocently, ignorantly, or deliberately, present other persons I.P. against our rules.
If you are, or are the authorized agent of, the I P rights holder to posted content, please be assured that copyright infringement is entirely against our policy, or that of any other web sites we support in our DMCA takedown capacity.
To report such an infringement for immediate action,
you must:
1- Identify what copyrighted work is being infringed. (Please include specifics* so we can also confirm the material, and also ascertain its copyright status)
should we at our sole discretion choose to do so.
2- Specify* what is the infringing, material and where the infringing material is located on our website;
3- Specify your email address and all other information that allows us to contact you or your agent directly;**
4- State your (or your agent’s) good faith belief that the infringing post is unauthorized;
5- State that information in your notice is accurate
6- State that your request is made under penalty of perjury.
7- You (or your agent authorized to act on your behalf) must sign physically or electronically. **
These elements are specified by copyright law to be included in a takedown notice. (If most of these elements are not specified enough to be verified, we may refuse that request to take down the material.)
DMCA takedown processes apply to all copyrightable work even if owner has yet to register their work with the U.S. Copyright Office. It only applies to copyright infringement claims.
You may send your take down request by U S mail to:
DMCA Take Down Secretary
Ant Theater Scholarship Foundation Corp.
P O Box 2256
Pasadena CA 911002
Or by email to:
dmca.admin@anttheater.org
If you email, please check your email for a “we have received your request” response within three days, and, if you have yet to receive that, please resend your DMCA Take Down Request. (Email is imperfect. Competent experts have determined that up to 10% of emails vanish from delivery before they can be read.)
We will post an explanation of where we are in handling the DMCA take down process. When web sites we service exclude keeping PCI or PII, we will post this request where the alleged infringing material was, immediately upon receipt. This will be the only possible notice to the post contributor
The poster may use their site poster identity to respond. This may include a request of counter-notice from the post contributor. If this alleged infringer in good faith does not think the post is infringing, he or she can send a counter notice explaining why they disagree with the copyright owner. That will also be posted as service of the counter notice to the person who sent the original takedown notice.
A counter notice must contain:
1- The identifying specifics* of alleged infringing material and its location prior to its removal per the take down request.
2- The identity of the alleged infringer as rights owner (or agent) with contact means: name, contact address, email and/or phone number**.
3- Statement of good faith or belief that the material challenged was original, fair use, or in public domain.
4- Statement of good faith belief that the removal (and/or disabling of a linkage) is the result of a mistake, or misidentification.
5- Statement of consent to be sued in U.S. Federal Court.
6- State that your counter-notice is made under penalty of perjury.
7- You (or your agent authorized to act on your behalf) must sign physically or electronically.
Current law provides that once the post is so noticed, the rights holder may sue the alleged infringer in civil court within 14 calendar days (or 10 business days, whichever is longer). A scan or image of the front page of the filed suit showing the case number should be sent to the DMCA Take Down Secretary. If that is done, the alleged infringing post will remain taken down until the suit is settled, and per court decision.
If an image of the filed suit fails to be timely received, the post that is alleged to have been infringing will be attached to the post locus as a newly posted contribution.
*- A logical question is ‘how to do this without causing a repeat of the alleged offense?’ An example may suffice: “In the comment beginning ‘Phred Phrog’, the words starting ‘Tom Bombadil’ and the 367 words afterwards until the concluding words ‘the Orc died’.”
** - We avoid retaining PCI or PII. A one use code will encrypt for on screen display, and each data will be redacted as requested; once redacted, same will be purged from our own records.
LAST PREVIOUS UPDATE! AS WE ARE GOING ACTIVE, but not all parts are quite ready yet, here are some announcements
1. Google has so disrupted the e-mediated publishing world that we are re-evaluating our source publications.
In the meantime, the plain old censored Hamlet will do until we get that done, which we will do ASAP.
We will post the Matrix with e-mail addresses to claim reservations this weekend.
2. We are shifting to screen responsive Word Press ASAP also. Meanwhile weekly continues to serve us well, though only one way. Check back for updates!
From Not So Long Ago: EXTRA! OSCAR SUNDAY ANNOUNCEMENT THAT MANY HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR since 2012.
ANT THEATER IS ACTIVE AS A NON-PROFIT! CA 3500 & under fiscal sponsor Noble Charities, 501c3.
The letter allowing this has arrived! First in CALIFORNIA, home of Hollywood! Check back later for more information and developments.
This is New Updated Information. (Matrix is the next to be updated.) It explains what we do. It is still being organized into its final pages.
TERMS OF PARTICIPATION (“Terms”) of
THE ANT THEATER SCHOLARSHIPS FOUNDATION CORP.
("ANT THEATER S. F. C. " or "ANT THEATER")
(a non-profit corporation)
© and ALL RIGHTS RESERVED BY A TRIMPI, 2014, 2016
Welcome to our ANT THEATER: We want you to do better.
In five words: Ant Theater distributes raised media Scholarships.
"Ant Theater is The Best Channel for Providing Cost-Effective
Theater and Media Arts Scholarship Career Education Grants.”
- C. A. Shakespeare, on the Internet.
Where do I fit in? Look here. (Also, see the Play Matrix: The Early Bird Gets the First Turn!)
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We note #ChristopherLee among those who inspired Ant Theater. Mr Lee inspired human understanding.
A Lee Grant will be fan funded.
Fans, help choose the demographics for the Lee Grant.
Please leave your thoughts on the Delphi Forums Ant Theater Community page.
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Are you..? SEE:
PHASE 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
History Still Art Motion Art Game Art InterActive Immersive Portfolio Grants* Mentoring
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A Theater Performer x x x x x x x
An Actor x x x x x x x
A Musical Performer x x x x x x x x
A Student x x x x x x x x* x
A Fan x x x x x x x x
An Instructor or Coach x x x x x x x x x
In Theater Trades x x x x x x x x
In Movie Trades x x x x x x x x
A Graphic Artist x x x x x x x x
A CGI expert x x x x x x x x
A Game Maker x x x x x x x x
In Immersive Media x x x x x x x x
An Equipment Producer x x x x x ads x x
A Software Producer x x x x x ads x x
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*- You must ALSO be in a class, as a student, to qualify for grants. See details.
If you are dropping in during our web site Construction, what follows is a more legal wording, under change.
The material below will be written out for you as a usual web site reader very soon. Come back and watch our progress!
This Site explains Ant Theater Operations, updated during March, 2015.
Another site is for the Ant Theater community sharing, posts, and your input. That site is [TBA very shortly - pending @ Delphi].
All content submissions (for Freemium Portfolio and Grant Applications) will be in fixed form media. (See FAQ.)
(If you have a question not answered by FAQs, you may submit it at [TBA very shortly].Does that really work? Yes.
We were asked at Long Beach Comic Expo: Do we have a holographic performance category in our demographic matrix? We do now!)
Ant Theater’s major financial activity is to raise and award scholarship grants (“Awards”) subject to the following terms and conditions, and host members’ participation by access to Ant Theater communications. Noting defunding of Theater Arts and Media Presentation in California, Ant Theater set its purpose to provide support to enrolled students seeking to learn mastery of such key features of our highly distributed technological culture.
1- Ant Theater, asks you to please read these Terms carefully before using Ant Theater. By using our website, you agree to be bound by, and to comply with, these Terms and the License extended to you through Ant Theater. We, at Ant Theater, want you to get the most out of your choices, to feel welcome to share our mutual-support learning Community.
2- If you are a legal adult, You can JOIN Ant Theater FOR FREE by submitting a unique user name & e-mail address, and You will get an Ant Theater club code number:[ | | | | ][ | | | | ][ | |/| | ][ | | | | ][ | | | | ][ | | | | ]. You will find out how to register anonymously (to us) in order to post on the Ant Theater Community website.
TERMS OF PARTICIPATION (“Terms”) of The Ant Theater SCHOLARSHIPS FOUNDATION CORP. ("ANT THEATER S. F. C. " or "ANT THEATER") (a non-profit corporation)
© and ALL RIGHTS RESERVED BY ATRIMPI, 2014
3- PERMISSION: These terms contract to govern your use of Ant Theater.
4 YOUR AGREEMENT:
4a- By using the website, registering as a Member, and/or making a Scholarship Application/Submission, or other donation, you are certifying you have read, understand and agree to, these Terms & Conditions, as well as our Privacy Policy.
4b- You understand this Scholarship program is to provides valuable awards to those engaged in learning theater arts and media presentation, and that you are accessing this Scholarship solely to further that purpose.
4c- By using information on the Ant Theater S. F. C. 's web site, or accessing the domain "www.anttheater.org", you hereby accept and agree to the Terms of ANT THEATER Scholarship Grant selection process, and/or by Submitting a Derivative Work Donation with a Release/Waiver for possible selection, publication, and distribution, you agree that all decisions of the Administrator(s) in connection with Application(s) /Submission(s)s are final. By use of Ant Theater Service (including any Content), you agree to the then-current terms.
4d- IF YOU DO NOT AGREE & ACCEPT ALL THESE CONDITIONS & TERMS, YOU ARE NOT LICENSED NOR AUTHORIZED TO MAKE ANT THEATER DERIVATIVE WORK, NOR SUBMIT ANY MATERIAL TO ANT THEATER, NOR POST ON ITS WEBSITE(S) FOR ANY PURPOSE.
4e-You acknowledge that Ant Theater provide valuable services to those learning to engage in theater and media presentation who are genuinely interested in presenting exemplars of material, and that you are accessing the website solely to support that purpose. Your presence on the Ant Theater Site(s) and use of Ant Theater Services or any of its Properties are governed by the Ant Theater Terms and the Privacy Policy in effect at the time
4f- Ant Theater reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to revise these Terms & Conditions at any time, for any reason, without notice. Ant Theater also reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change the methods through which future selections for publication and distribution of Scholarship Grant Awards and compilations are made, though we hope our expressed plans will work and not need any corrective changes.
Changes to the approval requirements, as increasing or decreasing the rubrics to be met to qualify, establishing or eliminating any demographic divisions, or adding or decreasing the number of steps to confirm qualification for an award, or adding or removing any award or Application(s) /Submission(s). are possible as Board decisions for Ant Theater’s mission.
4g- Please check this website for the current terms before you participate. If you receive one award, you are considered for the next level(s) of awards.
Your Application(s) /Submission(s) of a donation of Derivative Work for consideration for use or distribution following any such modification constitutes your agreement to follow and be bound by the Terms & Conditions as modified. The last date these Terms & Conditions were revised is [9/14].
(Ant Theater will reasonably attempt to follow our published policy. )
4h- You agree that these Terms have the force and effect of an Agreement signed in writing. (You also agree to resolve any dispute by arbitration, by AAA*.)
Please take moments to carefully read through these Terms. If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact Ant Theater at
Ant Theater
Attn: Term Questions
P.O.Box 2256
Pasadena, CA., 91102
5- YOUR ELIGIBILITY:
Ant Theater solicits the voluntary donations of Derivative Works from the Standard Source Text both as part of any Application(s) /Submission(s) for Scholarship Grants, and for Portfolio purposes, from Ant Theater members.
5a- To JOIN as a MEMBER: You must be a legally competent adult. You need not make any Application(s) /Submission(s) to be a Member.
5b- To SUBMIT PORTFOLIO material: You must be a legally competent adult Californian. (Submitting Derivative Work for Portfolio constitutes an additional legally binding agreement between the Member and Ant Theater according to the terms, conditions, and covenants contained herein. See release/waiver Terms.))
5c- To APPLY for a SCHOLARSHIP GRANT AWARD:
You must be a legally competent adult CALIFORNIA resident, at least 18 years old, with a valid U.S. e-mail and a U.S, postal address, and be ENROLLED in a RECOGNIZED SCHOOL or EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM to be eligible to receive a scholarship grant. These include programs from four year universities, graduate schools, Community Colleges, and programs such as Higher, Adult, and Life-long Learning Education (HALE) programs. (Submitting an application for a Scholarship Award constitutes an additional legally binding agreement between an Applicant and Ant Theater, according to the terms, its conditions, and covenants.)
5d- To announce as a Candidate for a Mentorship:
You must be a legally competent adult Californian.
(Other required qualifications are listed under each participation.) *
5e- In order to sign up, you must
(i-) provide true, complete, and up-to-date appropriate registration information about yourself, (ii-) agree to abide by these Terms.
(iii-) You must be legally capable to enter into contracts.
5f- Ant Theater reserves the right to refuse service or to terminate accounts for any user and to change eligibility requirements at any time.
6- for MEMBERSHIP:
You will need to establish a login member account to access and use the Ant Theater Community Social Website. (location to be announced). [This is one of several features awaiting activation immediately after FTB approval.]
Only one user is permitted per login and membership I.D.. This is a website for Community interaction only. Ant Theater may refuse use of any login that Ant Theater determines is unacceptable, and cancel the login.
7 for PORTFOLIO:
You will need to have been a member for at least [[ONE MONTH]] .
You will need to claim a passage and Techno-Demographic rendering means on the Play Matrix with your member ID, by posting your Portfolio claim to the Ant Theater Page. Ant Theater will post to the Matrix.
When you deliver a suitable derivative rendering, fixed on DVD or CD, with the executed industry warrantee, waiver, and release documents.your post will be fixed in the Play Matrix.
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PLAY MATRIX: This a chart of passages or sequences in the play that are partitioned by the announced intent of Applicants/Submitters by Act,Scene, and Line, which are then tentatively mapped to the chart, Claims become fixed when rendered derivative works are received. These will be compiled.
YOUR KEY ANT THEATER DATES (YOU SHOULD KEEP A RECORD OF):
Membership Joining Date: retain this with your copy of your Member I D.
Application Sign-up Date (for claiming free Application(s) /Submission(s) ticket number)
Submission Date - and Submission I.D. number - completed submission is submitted
Portfolio Submission Date - and Submission I D number - completed submission is submitted
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8- for APPLICATION FOR SCHOLARSHIP GRANT AWARD:
Applicant must have been a member for at least [[45 days]]
Applicant must claim a free Applicant Number from the Ant Theater website, matching the Applicants demographics.
Applicant must replicate the Portfolio process for initiating submission.
8a- A sole-acting Applicant must submit an Ant Theater Application Form, downloaded, completed, along with Portfolio Documents, by snail-mail, to: [[THE MATRIX TO ENABLE THIS WILL BE POSTED IN A FEW WEEKS; WE ARE PREPARING FOR THE 2015-2016 AWARDS CALENDAR.]
ANT THEATER
APPLICATIONS
P O Box 2256
Pasadena CA 91102
8b- Each Applicant Team must be represented by a single Producer-Sponsor who accepts their responsibilities to communicate with Ant Theater. A Producer-Sponsor warrants all documents are completed, correctly, fully, and properly executed, and all Applicants qualified on this team. All this may be done en masse by a ProducerSponsor, who takes responsibility that all documents are securely retained until a decision selects award recipients. If this team is to receive awards, the documents must be sent in to be verified, and retained, by Ant Theater.
A Producer -Sponsor accepts responsibilities according to the Terms.
9- Applicant Representations and Covenants
By submitting an Application, Applicants represent and warrant that:
9a- The information in the application is and will be true and accurate.
9b- The rendering contained in the Application is derivative work from the standard source, and will not infringe upon the rights, including privacy and intellectual property rights, of any third party.
9c- The Applicant has and will have the right and authority to submit the derivative work content in its Application to AntTheater.
9d- The Applicant has acted under permissive license, from Ant Theater, as appropriate, for Standard Source Material,
9e- The Applicant has obtained permissive license(s) from any third party for conveying rights for any third party materials, information, or other intellectual property contained in its application to Ant Theater, and that all such rights do not conflict with Ant Theater’s own Terms in any way if the third party work is incorporated into Ant Theater’s compilations of work derivative from the Standard Source Material; OR Applicant has documented that any third party materials are in the Public Domain.
9f- The Applicant will comply with all applicable rules, laws, and regulations in connection with its activities relating to an Ant Theater scholarship application.
9g- The Applicant will not attempt to hold AntTheater responsible or liable for any violation of any third party’s intellectual property rights as a result of Applicant’s participation.
9h- The Applicant has no business or close family (parent, sibling, spouse, child) relationship with any officer, member, employee, shareholder, director or senior management person of Ant Theater.
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What legally competent California adults are INELIGIBLE?
Employees and independent contractors of Ant Theater, Ant Theater staff, their close family (parents, spouses, children, grandchildren, siblings, in-laws, and any residing members of the same households as Ant Theater’s staff families, promotion agencies and legal and financial advisors are not eligible to apply for scholarships.
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10- Either individually or as a team member, each Applicant person is limited to only receive one Tier One scholarship award in any Award Announcement Cycle. (Award announcements are phased by techno-demographic discipline areas from June through the next March. All Awards become fixed on March 31st of each Award cycle).
11- An individual may receive multiple recognitions,.
12- An announced recipient may decline or return any announced Scholarship Award within two calendar weeks of being offered that Award, and no later than prior to March 1st of the Award Cycle in order to have eligibility for another possible award. Ant Theater will accept returned awards. By declining or returning an award, you are relinquishing your claim to the award. Any such decision will not change the evaluations for any jury that has decided or will still be deciding for any Award.
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WHY THE ANONYMITY?
The Integrity of Ant Theater Scholarships and processes require anonymity. Ant Theater uses judges from the Trades to effectively discover and support their own creative talent to be award support for skill improvement in all aspects of Theater Arts and Media Production. Anonymity insulates the judges from workplace pressure. A clear exception occurs when a known celebrity is submitting as part of a team, permitted in the Professional Portfolio category, as a charity performance donation.
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13. PRIVACY POLICY:
13a- Our Privacy Policy is here to help you understand when Ant Theater collect and how Ant Theater use any information. Your security is important to us. Ant Theater encourage members to only use Member ID’s for posting on-line. That’s how Ant Theater will notify you of your status events. It is your responsibility to track the award announcements by Ant Theater regarding the success status of your Application(s) /Submission(s). Ant Theater do not offer telephone support. If a concern is yet to be addressed in our FAQ page, questions, comments and concerns may be posts on our members website.
Briefly, all members’ privacy is reserved to them individually, and portfolio privacy is protected by off-line encryption, and applicant’s privacy is air-gap protected, and verification only upon selection for a scholarship award, and then also air gap protected.
13b- You consent to the collection and use of information you provide in accordance with Ant Theater's Privacy Policy. The Privacy Policy is part of this Agreement and you agree that use of data as described in the Privacy Policy is not an actionable breach of your privacy or publicity rights. You grant perpetual use of your likeness, voice and image, as submitted, to be published by Ant Theater in any media in perpetuity, with all rights to same. You agree that use of your stage or screen or trade name, as designated by you, and your image and voice, as recorded if you agree to be interviewed, of county of residence, or other demographic data of the class which you elect, if published, is not an actionable breach of your privacy or publicity rights.
13c- Ant Theater will occasionally update this Privacy Policy. When Ant Theater post changes to this Privacy Policy, Ant Theater will revise the "last updated" date at the top of this [Privacy] Policy. Ant Theater recommend that you check our website from time to time to inform yourself of any changes in this [Privacy] Policy or any of our other policies. Your chosen type of participation trigger different privacy information policies:
By submitting or donating, you are certifying you have read, understand and agree to these Terms & Conditions, as well as our Privacy Policy.
Claiming a scholarship grant award: A matched photo name I.D. matched to a unique school student registration number I.D., matched to the previous unique signature name, being a legal professional stage or screen or trade name, with documents as required with the submission, and retained in air-gap separated files. (Unless you have filed for and been granted a legal name change, your legal name is your birth or married name. Credits will be listed with a name as you direct, so long as it does not belong to, or relate falsely to, someone else. You are responsible to make this determination, as part of your Application/Submission obligation.)
13d- Applying for a scholarship grant: A unique signature name, being a legal professional stage, screen, or trade name, and a a unique school student registration number, is required with the submission, as is a signed release and waiver, to be and retained in air-gap separated files. (If you are part of a Team Application for a scholarship grant, your Producer-Sponsor is responsible for collecting and safe-keeping all personal information, qualifying releases, waivers, and warrantees, unless and until your submission is selected for a scholarship grant. At that point, your above required Claimant additional information must then be confirmed by Ant Theater.)
13e- Submit for portfolio publication: A unique signature name, being a legal professional stage or screen or trade name, is required with the submission, on a required release, warrantee, and waiver, retained in air-gap separated files matched with the coded name [Member I D] of the performer, or renderer of derivative work.
13f- By submitting any Derivative Work, you consent to the use and collection of your information in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
13g- Member: Ant Theater validates uniqueness by e-mail. You agree that Ant Theater may use this
Personal Data to obtain anonymous ID.
Web site visitor: Ant Theater collects no I.D. information.
13h- No PII financial info is required to submit or apply to Ant Theater. Our only Means to Identify you that Ant Theater retains on-line is an anonymized Member ID. Financial PII is only obtained by us, when and as necessary to convey an award to you; and that is protected by air gap. Then Ant Theater require more PII to disburse funds to you, or by your producer-sponsor. Donor’s information may only be provided with that Donor’s consent. If required, that information may be shared as required with tax agencies, or LEAs presenting sub poena authority. Otherwise, PII contact information provided to Ant Theater will only be used by us, as described, and not conveyed to others.
14- Credit List: Published Derivative Work will be credited, either by Your name that you direct to list, or remain as a contact in anonymized I D on publication.You agree that this use of this data is not an actionable breach of your privacy or publicity rights. The Author for copyright purposes is Ant Theater, as under license from the Source Provider.
15- If you donate on-line to Ant Theater, only [[PayPal]] takes personal financial transaction information. If you wish credit, or to endow by contract, in any contractual transaction for funds, Ant Theater collects only offered and/or usual contractual financial or transaction information, (so as to draft terms to specify awards, per conditions and terms).
16- SECURITY NOTE: Ant Theater does not send purchase offers, nor e-mail requests for PII, and is unable to honor any e-mail unsubscribe requests, since subscriptions are functions of third party programs. If you receive unwanted offers via e-mail, please follow the unsubscribe instructions included therein.
17- You agree that publishing your professional stage, screen or trade name, as designated by you, and your image and voice if submitted, and as recorded if you agree to be interviewed, the interview, and city/county or area residence or other demographic data pertaining to the pool in which you were recognized, is not an actionable breach of your privacy or publicity rights.
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Ant Theater will use the following definitions in this Agreement:
PII or Personally Identifying Information: Any Information that can permit a person to be identified: usually means legal signature name, phone number, contact address, or financial information. Financial PII is a separate category, and only collected by PayPal, unless we give you a Scholarship Grant Award, in which case Ant Theater retains the minimum information, air gapped. (Ant Theater looks forward to use of third party transmission services for digital Award components.)
USER: The first level of participation in Ant Theater: coming as a Visitor. Ant Theater collects no PII.
MEMBER: The second level, when you sign up to Ant Theater: this entitles you to the opportunity to being included in Ant Theater’s Freemium Promotion Portfolio Matrix compilation. If you submit, Ant Theater will anonymize your PII, and archive your legal name and submission waiver off-line.
APPLICANT: If you are a natural person, you may apply yourself, or with qualified other individuals as a team, for an Ant Theater Scholarship Grant Award. Ant Theater accepts that you have all the information required on your form, which must be verified IF, and only IF, you are an awardee, before you may receive the Award. (Applicants not selected for Scholarship Awards have their Application Submissions published in that year’s compilation by default.)
AWARDEE: If you are awarded a scholarship, you must then provide the information required for Ant Theater to verify that you are qualified to receive the Award.
JURISDICTION: (above Arbitration) The place whose Laws control disputes
ARBITRATION: A process that is faster than Court, using professional decision makers respecting matters of contract law.
AGREEMENT: An Acceptance of Our Terms as governing our relationship.
UPDATE: Change to terms made as of a certain date, either by Ant Theater, or a law-making body with proper jurisdiction.
TERMS of SERVICE: The Rules of the Relationship.
CALIFORNIA: A State in the United States of America
LOS ANGELES: A County having legal jurisdiction over all matters concerning contracts in Pasadena, (also Hollywood, and the locations of media studios of major producers and Digital Companies such as: ABC-Disney, Bitropolis, Columbia, Electronic Arts, MGM, Paramount, SKG-Dreamworks, Sony Pictures, Universal Studios, Warner Brothers, etc.)
"You" means the entity or person who access or uses the Website as an end user.
"Login" means the combination of a unique username and password that is used to access a website. A login is a license to use a website for a period of time that is specified.
"Membership" or "Members" means a single registration account per user of a valid Member ID and password login for the website during the term of membership.
"Website" or "AntTheater.org" is the website for which you obtain your Member I D, and instructions as to how password login from AntTheater.org or its affiliates in order to access the website(s) and its materials and obtain the benefits of membership.
STANDARD SOURCE TEXT: Ant Theater uses as its standard The Full Restoration of the Comedy and Mystery of Hamlet publishing project.
[This will republished on-line soon; everything can't be first. There's plenty of time.]]
[You may see more terms listed at the End of the Terms of Service.]
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18. Description of services:
18a. The Ant Theater will produce:
Ant Theater Scholarship Grant Awards, public awards and recognitions, facilitating contact among learners, incubating freemium Promotional option, a mentorship matching channel.
The Past as Prologue:
When the Modern Era ended in 1993, with the birth of InterNet distributed communications, Modern Theater seemed out-dated, and disconnected to the freshly born Media Presentation options being developed. Ant Theater is designed to redress the rampant defunding by budget stressed school districts of classes in the Theater Arts and all forms of Media Presentation. Its support is designed to further incentivize this education of the most talented of those who were deprived of those learning opportunities, yet who are enrolled in study in a four year college or university, a community college, or a professional extension or distance learning program such as the Higher Adult and Life-long Education (HALE) programs, from institutions like MIT, Harvard, Cornell, MSU, and others recognized and recommended for those still serving and for returning veterans, who find part-time jobs that support families while going to school have all but vanished.
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Why do we need this Service to be provided?
Western civilization has mostly avoided the American error of decades of defunding media education. In almost every other developed country, passing a full year of analytic media education is required in order to graduate from high school: We are speaking, not of sitting and watching media, but of actively deconstructing media and its production to discover what can be learned about its physical, sensory, psychological, and humanly dynamic processes, both as a science and in practice. Economic analysts now speak routinely of the “screen surface of vulnerability” of our many electronic interfaces, as State and NGO players with active programs execute plans to pragmatically aggress through media for economic advantage. This is the way Economic Analysts spoke of the growth of Global-Local Economic Competition Opportunities only a decade ago.
The Answering Heart of Ant Theater is to support creative talent in its Education in Theater Arts and Media. To identify Creativity requires a baseline provided by a Standard Source Text. (Otherwise, Creativity may become lost behind facades of mere screen value.) Our financial design is to support those with interest and creative talents, discovered by using rubrics and juried evaluations by trade professionals. To feed that financing engine requires a supporting Community of Interest, attracting both practitioners without the same financial need (Portfolio submitters), and also more who will be communicating to a broader public, a fan base that builds a growing general public conversation (Members).
Each community requires a different kind of service:
Scholarship Grant Awards are our core activity, to support those actively learning, with recognitions, which needs to be sustained by broad public financial support, to continue to incentivize learning the uses, techniques and understandings of media transforming new technologies and the transformed contexts these produce.
The Community of Interest requires an opportunity drawing interest of those semi-informed who live in this world of media arts presentation, such as the Freemium Portfolio opportunity. They will then measure themselves against the Scholarship Award community, and increasingly realize the value of what they still have to learn, and its effective utility in the practice of Theater Arts and Media. They will inherently seek the Audience of Broader Communities, both professionally and publicly, and bring in more persons as they reveal what they know, and learn. They will multiply the encouragement of the discovered stars, new research, and techniques as they observe and learn more and more.
The Members are the fan base, the growing broad audience, the rooters, the outreach to the whole General Public. They require free access to the process, the postings, the proven regrowth of appreciation, for the effects of the knowledge base that underlies these arts. Continuing to conceal from our own learners what our competitors are studying no longer monopolizes the world market.
Most media producers already know this. All Media Industries’ support may be expected, from stage to electronic, from screen to interactive immersive.
Companies that intend to mentor, or sponsor mentorships, are encouraged to participate in the Ant Theater Community.
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18b. The Purposeful Practice of Ant Theater
The purpose of the Award is to systematically encourage the learning of more theater and media presentation skills in the English speaking world* (see demographic eligibility) by
(i) facilitating student study in its basics, and applied development,
(ii) enhancing mentoring and other community supports for aspiring theater and media renderers,
(iii) supporting early-stage co-operative peer feedback from the professional growth community, and
(iv) attracting more interested funding.
18c. Ant Theater will award at least one basic (Tier One) grant for each 70 Applications, with other higher awards, as available. Demographic Pools as small as 32 can be funded, or defined. Ant Theater will attract as grant Applicants those creative persons who demonstrate creativity and exercise potential from among their nearest-peer demographics.
The Scholarship Grant Award activity focuses on Applicants who intend to, and do, work in theater and media presentation, while studying for its improvement.
All applicants will be grouped to their closest demographics for awards selections.
18d. AntTheater.org offers an online service enabling members access to its Community, and some of its content, and gives members the opportunity to share their own content and research.
18e. Ant Theater will provide one login to access the website and its contents. Ant Theater offer our Websites for informational educational purposes only.
You may use AntTheater.org only for lawful purposes and you are strictly forbidden from using AntTheater in violation of the rights of anyone else.
18f. Ant Theater will provide a free online video “(dot)TV channel” to offer a selection of movies, clips, and other content of Standard Source Derivative or Public Domain Work related to the Standard Source Text (collectively, the “Content") on a rotating basis. Ant Theater video service, the Content, and any other features, tools, applications, materials, or other services offered from time to time by Ant Theater in connection with its activities, however accessed, are referred to collectively as “Properties’ of the "Ant Theater Services."
Content is available for permissible viewing through the following: Ant Theater.org website (the "Ant Theater Website");
18g. Ant Theater's affiliate websites;
and Ant Theater authorized applications, features, products, or licensed Content or devices.
18h. Use of Ant Theater Services (including access to the Content and Properties) is only permitted compliant with these Terms and any other end user license agreement that might accompany an Ant Theater application, feature or device.
18i. Ant Theater Services are provided to you as a Member free-of-charge. Please familiarize yourself with the provisions in these Terms. Ant Theater Properties are for your use and study in accordance with these Terms. To access Ant Theater Content, you must agree to, and follow, the terms and conditions in these Terms. By visiting the Ant Theater Website or using any of Ant Theater Services (including accessing any Content) you are agreeing to these Terms.Please read through these Terms. If you have any questions or comments about these Terms, please contact Ant Theater at: Ant Theater POBox 2256, Pasadena CA 91102
19. ACCESS AND USE OF Ant Theater SERVICES
Age Limitations. Ant Theater Services are only for adults at this time, and not now intended to be used by minors. (However, expansion of the program into high schools, once state mandated reporting and other access requirements are met, is contemplated. This would result funds awarded only for college use.).
19a Your License.
Ant Theater grants Members a non-exclusive limited license to use Ant Theater Services and Properties, including accessing and viewing the Content as provided, for personal, non- commercial educational purposes as set forth in these Terms.
19b. Content.
(i-) You may only access and view the Content personally and for a non-commercial educational purpose in compliance with these Terms. You may not either directly or through the use of any device, software, internet website, web-based service, or other means, remove, alter, bypass, avoid, interfere with, or circumvent any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices marked on the Content or any digital rights management mechanism, device, or other content protection or access control measure associated with the Content including geo-filtering mechanisms.
(ii-) You may not either directly or through the use of any device, software, internet website, web-based service, or other means copy, download, stream capture, reproduce, duplicate, archive, distribute, upload, publish, modify, translate, broadcast, perform, display, sell, transmit or retransmit the Content unless expressly permitted by Ant Theater in writing.
(iii-) You may not incorporate the Content into, or stream or retransmit the Content via, any hardware or software application or make it available via frames or in-line links unless expressly permitted by Ant Theater in writing.
(iv-) Furthermore, you may not create, recreate, distribute or advertise an index of any significant portion of the Content unless authorized in writing by Ant Theater. You may not build a business utilizing the Content, whether or not for profit. The Content covered by these restrictions includes without limitation any text, graphics, layout, interface, logos, photographs, audio and video materials, and stills.
(v-) In addition, you are licensed to render derivative works or embed materials derived from or based on the Content, if and only if all rights to such materials remain with Ant Theater, including single hand made montages, greeting cards, and mash-ups and similar videos, (these may be made only for Application(s) /Submission(s) to Ant Theater), but not wallpaper, desktop themes, greeting cards, and merchandise, unless expressly permitted by Ant Theater in writing. This prohibition applies even if you intend to give away the derivative materials free of charge.
20 I.P Integrity:
20a. You may not modify, enhance, remove, interfere with, or otherwise alter in any way any portion of any Product, its underlying technology, any digital rights management mechanism, device, or other content protection or access control measure incorporated into the Product.
20b. This restriction includes, without limitation, disabling, reverse engineering, modifying, interfering with or otherwise circumventing in any manner that enables users to view the Content without:
(i-) displaying visibly all surrounding elements (including the graphical user interface, any advertising, copyright notices, and trademarks);and
(ii-) having full access to all functionality of the Content, including, without limitation, all video quality and display functionality and all interactive, elective, or click-through advertising functionality.
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21. Embedding Music, Animation, Video, Interactive, Game, or Immersive Art.
21a. Ant Theater offers an opportunity to incorporate an embed option in connection with Content on Ant Theater Product:
you may embed Music, Animation, Video, Interactive, Game, or Immersive Art, provided you do not embed on any website or other location,
also provided that embeds do NOT
(i-) contain or host content that is unlawful, infringing, pornographic, obscene, defamatory, libelous, threatening, harassing, vulgar, indecent, profane, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, encourages criminal conduct, gives rise to civil liability, violates any law, rule, or regulation, infringes any right of any third party including intellectual property rights, or is otherwise inappropriate or objectionable to Ant Theater (in Ant Theater's sole discretion), or
(ii-) link to infringing or unauthorized content (collectively, "Unsuitable Material").
21b. You may not embed the Music, Animation, Video, Interactive, Game, or Immersive Art into any hardware or software application, even for non-commercial purposes.
2c. Ant Theater reserves the right to prevent embedding or linking to any website or other location that Ant Theater finds inappropriate or objectionable (as determined by Ant Theater in its sole discretion).
22. POSTS of USER REVIEWS, COMMENTS, AND OTHER MATERIAL
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22a. Ant Theater Service users have an opportunity to publish, transmit, submit, or otherwise post (collectively, "Post") reviews, comments, or other materials (collectively, "User Material"). In order to keep Ant Theater Services enjoyable for all of our users, we ask you adhere to the Terms below.
22b. Please choose your User Material to Post carefully. Please limit yourself to User Material directly relevant to Ant Theater Services.
22c. You must not Post User Material that:
(i-) contains Unsuitable Material (as defined above); or
(ii-) improperly claims the identity of another person.
22d. Ant Theater asks you to please use your Member ID each time you Post to Member accessible pages. Ant Theater advises that you should not Post personally identifiable information, such as a real name, or street address. When noticed, these may be removed. If you choose to share business mobile or e-contact information, wholly private messaging is recommended.
22e. Your “User Material” is material you wholly originate or have permission from the person who wholly originated it to post. (By contrast, Derivative Work derives from and belongs to Ant Theater, and is not your User Material, but is Ant Theater’s.)
22f. You must have first obtained permission from the rightful owner of any User Material you Post. By submitting User Material, you represent and warrant that you own the User Material or otherwise have the right to grant Ant Theater the license provided below. You also represent and warrant that the Posting of your User Material does not violate any right of any party, including privacy rights, publicity rights, and intellectual property rights.
22g. In addition, you agree you must have paid all royalties, fees, and other payments owed to any party by reason of your Posting User Material to conform to Ant Theater material guidelines, and transmit such documentation to Ant Theater for Ant Theater to verify, or do not submit that material.
22h. Ant Theater will remove all User Material if Ant Theater is properly notified that such User Material infringes on another person's I.P. rights. You acknowledge that Ant Theater does not guarantee any confidentiality with respect to any User Material.
23. Ownership.
You agree that Ant Theater owns and retains all rights to Ant Theater Services, Properties, and Content. You further agree that the Content you access and view as part of Ant Theater Services is owned or controlled by Ant Theater and Ant Theater's licensors. Ant Theater Services and the Content are protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws.
24. Your Responsibilities.
In order to keep Ant Theater Services safe and available for everyone to use, you and other users must use Ant Theater Services for lawful, non-commercial, and appropriate educational purposes only. You agree to observe Ant Theater Services, Content, and embedding restrictions detailed above, and further agree that you will not access the Ant Theater Website or use Ant Theater Services in a way that:
(a-) violates the rights of others, including patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, privacy, publicity, or other proprietary rights;
(b-) uses technology or other means to access, index, frame or link to Ant Theater Services (including the Content) that is not authorized by Ant Theater (including by removing, disabling, bypassing, or circumventing any content protection or access control mechanisms intended to prevent the unauthorized download, stream capture, linking, framing, reproduction, access to, or distribution of Ant Theater Services);
(c-) involves accessing Ant Theater Services (including the Content) through any automated means, including "robots," "spiders," or "offline readers" (other than by individually performed searches on publicly accessible search engines for the sole purpose of, and solely to the extent necessary for, creating publicly available search indices - but not caches or archives - of Ant Theater Services and excluding those search engines or indices that host, promote, or link primarily to infringing or unauthorized content);
(d-) introduces viruses or any other computer code, files, or programs that interrupt, destroy, or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment; damages, disables, overburdens, impairs, or gains unauthorized access to Ant Theater Services, including Ant Theater's servers, computer network, or user accounts;
(e-) removes, modifies, disables, blocks, obscures or otherwise impairs any advertising in connection with Ant Theater Services (including the Content);
(f-) uses Ant Theater Services to advertise or promote services that are not expressly approved in advance in writing by Ant Theater;
(g-) collects personally identifiable information in violation of Ant Theater's Privacy Policy; encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense or give rise to civil liability; violates these Terms or any guidelines or policies posted by Ant Theater;
(h-) interferes with any other party's use and enjoyment of Ant Theater Services; or
(i-) attempts to do any of the foregoing.
25. If Ant Theater determines in its sole discretion that you are violating any of these Terms, Ant Theater may (i) notify you, and (ii) use technical or legal measures to block or restrict your access or use of Ant Theater Services. In either case, you agree to immediately stop accessing or using in any way (or attempting to access or use) Ant Theater Services, and you agree not to circumvent, avoid, or bypass such restrictions, or otherwise restore or attempt to restore such access or use.
26. No Spam/Unsolicited Communications.
No one may use Ant Theater Services to harvest information about users for the purpose of sending, or to facilitate or encourage the sending of, unsolicited bulk or other communications. You understand that Ant Theater may take any technical remedies to prevent spam or unsolicited bulk or other communications from entering, utilizing, or remaining within our computer or communications networks.
If you Post or otherwise send spam, advertising, or other unsolicited communications of any kind by using Ant Theater Services, you acknowledge that you will have caused substantial harm to Ant Theater and that the amount of such harm would be extremely difficult to measure. As a reasonable estimation of such harm, you agree to pay Ant Theater $50 for each such unsolicited communication you send through Ant Theater Services.
27. By Posting User Material, you are not forfeiting any ownership rights in original user material to Ant Theater. After Posting your User Material, you continue to retain all of the same ownership rights you had prior to Posting. By Posting your User Material, you grant Ant Theater a limited license to use, display, reproduce, distribute, modify, delete from, add to, prepare derivative works of, publicly perform, and publish such Material through Ant Theater Services worldwide, including on or through any Property, in perpetuity, in any media formats and any media channels now known or hereinafter created.
28. This license to User Material you grant to Ant Theater is non-exclusive (meaning you are not prohibited by Ant Theater from licensing your User Material to anyone else in addition to Ant Theater), fully-paid, royalty-free (meaning that Ant Theater is not required to pay you for the use of your User Material), and sub-licensable (so that Ant Theater is able to use its affiliates, subcontractors, and other partners, such as internet content delivery networks, to provide Ant Theater Services).
29. By Posting your User Material, you also hereby grant each user of Ant Theater Services a non- exclusive, limited license to access your User Material, and to use, display, reproduce, distribute, and perform such User Material as permitted through the functionality of Ant Theater Services and under these Terms.
30. Third Party Posts.
30a. Despite these restrictions, please be aware that some material provided by users may be objectionable, unlawful, inaccurate, or inappropriate. To the extent accessing Ant Theater shows advertisements that carry offers of purchases of, or payment for, third party products or services, you agree that Ant Theater will not be liable to you for any claims arising out of or related to your purchase or use of such third party products or services.
30b. Ant Theater does not endorse any Member User Material, or Third Party Posts, and Member Material that is Posted does not reflect the opinions or policies of Ant Theater. Ant Theater reserve the right, but have no obligation, to monitor Material and to restrict or remove Material that Ant Theater determine, in our sole discretion, is inappropriate or for any other reason. In no event does Ant Theater assume any responsibility or liability whatsoever for any User Material, and you agree to waive any legal or equitable rights or remedies you may have against Ant Theater with respect to such User Material. Help us by notifying Ant Theater of any inappropriate User Material you find.
30c. To report a specific instance of inappropriate Material, please notify through the Community Page [[Delphi/Inappropriate Material Notice]].
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A THIRD PARTY is someone who is not You, and is not Ant Theater, yet may advertise on a web-site or e-ad for some a purpose or service. BY DEFINITION, WE AT ANT THEATER DO NOT CONTROL THE PRIVACY’ POLICIES OF ANY THIRD PARTIES, SO“CAVEAT WEBSTUR”. We don’t sell your personal information to third parties. If you receive unwanted third party offers via e-mail, please follow the unsubscribe instructions included therein.
IF ADVERTISERS ads appear with our (web)pages, they:
(1.) support our or our web host's operations through ad revenues
(2.) want to attract you as customers
(3.) think to take or make money from you
or (4.) want to enroll you in supporting a cause.
We, at Ant Theater, do not control them; we do not control you.
Many Third Parties wish to inform you of their promotional offers.
You are not obligated to opt-in to any offers when you participate.
If they offer Survey Questions & Special Offers
Survey Questions: Ant Theater asks no survey questions on-line.
Ant Theater itself neither collects nor retains any personal financial information on-line.
Ant Theater is not responsible for your interactions with advertisers.
Ant Theater recommends that you print and keep any receipts, order confirmations and correspondence proving that you completed any transaction.
You are responsible for reviewing your transactions and reporting any errors to other parties.
Ant Theater is not responsible for any transactions you enter into with any advertisers, or any products or services associated with any third party advertisers or resulting process providers. (Ant Theater cannot fulfill, cancel for you, refund, or act on any account you create with any Third Party.)
You should carefully read the requirements, terms and conditions, privacy policy, and billing information for each offer before you sign-up.
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30d. All Third Party Content, including, without limitation all offers, data, links, articles, search results, graphic or video messages and all information, text, software, music, sound, graphics or other materials made available or accessible (“Third Party Content"), whether publicly available or privately transmitted, is the sole responsibility of the third party which created such Third Party Content.
Ant Theater is not responsible for, does not endorse or control Third Party Content.
You agree to accept all risks associated with the use of any Content, including any reliance on the accuracy or completeness of such Content.
Content may be offensive, indecent or objectionable to some in your community. Under no circumstances will Ant Theater or its licensors be liable in any way for any Content, including, but not limited to, for any errors or omissions in any Content, or for loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content posted or transmitted. By accepting this Agreement, you state you understand, acknowledge and agree that you may be subject to various risks, including the exposure of data you have downloaded or have offered to share, and that you accept all such risk as solely your risk and responsibility.
30e. Carefully read all required terms and conditions, privacy policy, and billing information requests for each before you sign-up. You agree, that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of Ant Theater against a Third Party must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose, or be forever barred.
30f. Advertisers are ignorant of the status of your Application; Scholarship Awards are independent of any vendor.
30g. BY DEFINITION, WE AT ANT THEATER DO NOT CONTROL THE PRIVACY POLICIES OF ANY THIRD PARTIES: “CAVEAT WEBSTUR”
30h. Third Party Destinations.
If an Ant Theater website provide links or pointers to other websites or destinations, you should not infer or assume that Ant Theater operates, controls, or is otherwise connected with these other websites or destinations. When you click on a link within Ant Theater Services, Ant Theater will not warn you that you have left Ant Theater, and are subject to the terms and conditions (including privacy policies) of another website or destination. In some cases, it may be less obvious than others that you have left Ant Theater, and reached another website or destination. Please be careful to read the Terms and privacy policy of any other website or destination before you provide any personal or confidential information or engage in any transactions. You should not rely on these Ant Theater Terms to govern your use of another website or destination.
30i. Ant Theater is not responsible for the content or practices of any website or destination other than Ant Theater, even if it links to the Ant Theater Website and even if the website or destination is operated by a company affiliated or otherwise connected with Ant Theater.
30j. By using Ant Theater Services, you acknowledge and agree that Ant Theater is not responsible or liable to you for any content or other materials hosted and served from any website or destination other than the Ant Theater Website.
30k. Ant Theater takes no responsibility for advertisements or any third party material Posted on any of the Properties, nor does it take any responsibility for the products or services provided by advertisers. Any dealings you have with advertisers found while using Ant Theater Services are between you and the advertiser, and you agree that Ant Theater is not liable for any loss or claim that you may have against an advertiser.
30L. Ant Theater asks no survey questions; only demographic Application(s) /Submission(s) information as volunteered by you will be verified if you claim a grant award. Ant Theater itself neither collects nor retains any personal financial information. Ant Theater is not responsible for your advertiser interactions. Ant Theater recommends you print and keep any receipts, order confirmations and correspondence proving that you completed any transaction. You are responsible for reviewing your transactions and reporting any errors to Third Parties. Ant Theater is not responsible for any transactions you enter into with any advertisers, their Content, or any products and services associated with the advertisers or resulting process/product providers.
30m. Ant Theater cannot fulfill, cancel on your behalf, refund, or service any account you create with any advertiser.
You should carefully read all of their requirements, terms and conditions, privacy policy, and billing information requests for each offer before you sign-up.
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31. Downloads.
In order to participate in certain Ant Theater Services or access certain Content, you may be notified that it is necessary to download software or other materials or agree to additional terms and conditions. Unless otherwise provided by these additional terms and conditions, they are hereby incorporated into these Terms.
32. Suspension/Discontinuation.
(32a-) Ant Theater may change, suspend, or discontinue - temporarily or permanently - some or all of Ant Theater Services (including the Content and the devices through which Ant Theater Services are accessed), with respect to any or all users, at any time without notice. You acknowledge that Ant Theater may do so in Ant Theater's sole discretion.
(32b-) You agree Ant Theater will not be liable to you for any modification, suspension, or discontinuance of Ant Theater Services
(32c-) If Ant Theater terminates your account or suspends or discontinues your access to Ant Theater Services due to your violation of these Terms, you will not be eligible for any consideration.
33. Internet Access Charges.
You are responsible for any costs you incur to access the internet.
34. The amount and form of service, and the decision to provide it, are at Ant Theater's sole and absolute discretion, and the provision of service in one instance does not entitle anyone to service in the future under similar or different circumstances.
35. Customer Service.
If Ant Theater can be of help to you, please contact Ant Theater by visiting our Community web page at [[Delphi/AntTheaterOrg]]. It is our pleasure to serve you.
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36. Ant Theater Donation Methods
You can find the latest specific details of donating to Ant Theater by logging in on the Ant Theater website, as these become enabled.
37. Pledging as a Feature.
Some donors prefer to donate by pledging regular donations of support, either a charge or debit. By providing a credit card or other payment method accepted by PayPal (“Payment Method”) for your Ant Theater donation, you are expressly agreeing that PayPal is authorized to charge you monthly, and any applicable taxes in connection with your use of Ant Theater Payment Method. If you want to use a different Payment Method than the one you signed up, or if there is a change in your credit card validity or expiration date, you may edit your Payment Method information by logging in on the PayPal website and clicking on Account under your name.
38. Tax.
Your intent, as is ours, is that this scholarship grant award is to be used for tax-exempt educational support purposes. Sometimes life requires changes, and both school policies, and laws vary in their results. In such cases as where it might then apply, all school, federal, state, local and other tax liabilities arising from these Scholarships grant awards, are the sole responsibility of the Recipient. You are responsible for paying any and all taxes associated with your receipt of the award. Ant Theater will not remit any taxes on your behalf.
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39. ACCOUNTS AND REGISTRATION
VISITORS: Ant Theater may from time to time offer various features that require registration or the creation of an account with Ant Theater. If at any time you choose to register or create an account with us, the additional terms and conditions set forth below also will apply.
Accounts of MEMBERS, SUBMITTERS, and APPLICANTS for SCHOLARSHIP GRANTS are discussed above.
When Applying as a Team, it is required there be a single point of contact, the Producer-Sponsor. As a Producer-sponsor you are responsible for all uses by other members of your team. By allowing others to access your account, you agree to be responsible for ensuring that they comply with these Terms and you agree to be responsible for their activity using Ant Theater Services. Your Producer-Sponsor is responsible for safe-keeping all personal information, releases, and warrantees, unless and until your Application(s) /Submission(s) have been selected for a scholarship award. Then these documents must be verified by Ant Theater.
All registration information you are required to submit must be accurate and updated. (Please keep any password(s) confidential.) Because you are responsible for all use of your account, including unauthorized use by any third party, please be very careful to guard the security of your password. Please notify Ant Theater through customer support as soon as you know of, or suspect, any unauthorized access. Ant Theater reserve the right to immediately terminate or restrict use of Ant Theater Services or access to Content at any time, without notice or liability,
If Ant Theater determines in its sole discretion that you have breached these Terms, violated any law, rule, or regulation, engaged in other inappropriate conduct, or for any other business reason, Ant Theater, at its sole discretion, may terminate your participation. Termination of your participation does not terminate Ant Theater’s Intellectual Property (I.P.) rights.
Ant Theater also reserve the right to terminate your application or your use of Ant Theater Services or access to Content, for example, if such use places an undue burden on our networks or servers. Of course, Ant Theater would prefer to avoid such termination; therefore, Ant Theater may use technology to limit activities, such as the number of calls to Ant Theater servers being made or the volume of User Material being Posted, and you agree to respect these limitations and not take any steps to circumvent, avoid, or bypass them. ===============================================
40. SUBMISSIONS of Derivative Work may be made by donation to Ant Theater in conformance with terms for: Scholarship Grant Applications, Portfolio Publications, or as part of Crowd-Funding efforts. NO DONATION OR PURCHASE IS REQUIRED TO SUBMIT FOR PUBLICATION. THERE IS NO WAY TO CANCEL A RECEIVED SUBMISSION. Each arrival of a change in a fixed rendering is considered, and must qualify as, a separate submission. This applies to any Application(s) /Submission(s) also.
(Ant Theater encourages a prior stage working copy to any submission to accompany any Application(s) /Submission(s), as, if present , it may be used for tie-breaking purposes by judges.)
41. Application and Submission Period
Scholarship Application funded ticket numbers are free as available to Members, and available numbers will be posted beginning on May 1st, and thereafter as funded, until the following March 30th. A Member need only claim a free ticket number in order to submit for a Scholarship Application, to insure there is funding. Optional demographic questions are included in Application(s) /Submission(s) forms; no other such information will be requested.
Accordingly all Applications/Submissions materials must be received in specified Fixed Digital DVD Form from May 1st, year A, until on or before the following December 31st, Year A,(NOT April 25th,WorkLoad!! before JUNE!!) year B, each with an Affidavit of Eligibility/Liability Release and Publicity Release.
Scholarship Awards are announced in phases from the following June, year B, through March, year C.
A full cycle: May Year A to April Year B: Applications & Submissions; June Year B through March Year C: Scholarship Grant Awards & Recognitions given out.
Each Submitter will be required to complete, execute and return an Affidavit of Eligibility/ Liability Release, to complete the qualification process. These forms are provided in the Submitter's Packet, and must accompany a Portfolio Submission.
Failure to return Release Forms with any Application(s) /Submission(s) may result in disqualification with alternate Application(s) /Submission(s) selected in accordance with these Terms.
For a scholarship Application, all additional necessary forms are warrantied by a Producer- Sponsor to have been accurately completed before materials are submitted, and are to be held in secure confidence by the Producer-Sponsor until requested for verification by Ant Theater in order to qualify for a Scholarship Award.
42. Lost or Corrupted Applications and/or Submissions.
Ant Theater Entities, and their affiliated and subsidiary companies and advertising and promotion agencies, assume no liability and are not responsible for, and you hereby forever waive any rights to any claim in connection with, lost, late, incomplete, corrupted, stolen, misdirected, illegible or postage due Application(s) /Submission(s)s or other mail, if applicable; or any selection or announcement of awards, or their availability or distribution,;or for any computer, telephone, cable, network, satellite, electronic or Internet hardware or software malfunctions, unauthorized human intervention, or the incorrect or inaccurate capture of Application or other information, or the failure to capture any such information.
Ant Theater Entities, and their affiliated and subsidiary agents, advertising and promotion agencies, are not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by registration information submitted by end users (Applicants, Submitters, Members, or Others), or tampering, hacking, or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in Ant Theater program or Processes, and assume no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to Ant Theater's data.
43. Damaged Property.
Ant Theater Entities, and their affiliated and subsidiary agents and advertising and promotion agencies, assume no liability and are not responsible for, and you hereby forever waive any rights to any claim in connection with, injury or damage to any Applicants or to any other person's computer or property related to or resulting from participating in Ant Theater, or downloading materials from Ant Theater.
44. Ant Theater Errors.
Ant Theater Entities, and their affiliated and subsidiary agents, and advertising and promotion agencies, assume no liability and are not responsible for, and you hereby forever waive any rights to any claim in connection with, errors and/or ambiguity: in the Scholarships Applications, Portfolio compilations, in any related advertising or promotions of Ant Theater Scholarships and/ or Crowd-funding project in these Terms. In the event of any ambiguity(s) or error(s) in these Terms, Ant Theater reserves the right to modify these Terms for clarification purposes or to correct any such ambiguity or error(s) without materially affecting the terms and conditions of the Scholarships Processes. ===============================================
45. ADHERENCE
You understand and agree that you are personally responsible for your behavior IN THE Derivative work, FOR SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS, SUBMISSIONS, AND/OR ANY OTHER ANT THEATER PARTICIPATION..
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Ant Theater, its subsidiaries, affiliates, distributors, licensors, partners, service providers, advertisers, and each of their respective officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against all claims, losses, expenses, damages, costs (including but not limited to direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, liquidated, and/or exemplary damages), and attorneys' fees, resulting from or arising out of your use, misuse or inability to use the website or the Content, or any violation by you of these Terms & Conditions. !
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46. APPLICANTS/SUBMITTERS: All matters qualifying submitters are also required to qualify Applicants.
If a team effort, to enter any Application(s) /Submission(s), a Producer-Sponsor must register with Ant Theater as the responsible contact person for the creative effort that is required. Producer-Sponsors are required to present a different registration for each Application/Submission.
47. Valid Information
(a) You must provide accurate, current, complete, and true information, as and when required, about yourself, and/or your team.
(b) If you give any information that relates or belongs to another person without their specific written consent in a release document presented to Ant Theater, or if Ant Theater has reasonable grounds to suspect that any information you provided relates or belongs to another person, and/or if is true or untrue, accurate or inaccurate, current or not current, or complete or incomplete, your Application(s) /Submission(s) may be placed on hold or disqualified, and screen credit withheld.
48. You agree to use these opportunities only for lawful purposes.
49. You agree not to take any action that might compromise the security of the scholarships, render Ant Theater content inaccessible to others, or otherwise cause damage to Ant Theater, the scholarship program, its users, or its Content, Submitters, Application(s) /Submission(s), Members, Visitors to the website, or other persons.
50. You agree not to use the content in any manner that might interfere with the rights of Ant Theater entities, or any third party.
51. ALL SUBMITTERS: A Submitter may be a performer, renderer, programmer, embedder, industry trade member, or supporting team member, or other contributing arts producer of a Derivative Work. A Submitter may be the natural person who competently executed the derivative work, in whole or in part, whether as an individual or participating in another organization, or the natural person who competently authorized the organization (e.g., business, educational, institution, club, etc.) that is responsible for the particular Application(s) /Submission(s).
For this sole purpose, you have license to make a single back-up copy, for archival purposes only. You have license to print scenes or passages only as needed in order to generate and fix in media your derivative work, performance(s) submitted as derivative work, and to retain archival copy of the same. You submit derivative work at your own risk.
You may not mirror or frame the home page or any other pages of the website on any other web page and may not connect links, including "deep links" to any submission.
You may not use a robot, scraper or other automated means of accessing the website(s).
52. APPLICANTS: Applicants must adhere to documentation requirements for Submitters.
An Applicant must also be a natural person who competently executed the derivative work, in whole or in part, whether as an individual or participating in a team of individuals, that is responsible for the particular Application(s) /Submission(s). A corporation or business may not apply for a scholarship grant, only a natural, competent, adult person.
A team must have a single point of contact, a Producer-Sponsor, who will undertake the responsibility to independently collect, securely safeguard, all PII required, and only produce PII when, and as, required by the Ant Theater process. All Producer-Sponsor Warrantied information will be verified before Scholarship Applications are granted..
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53. WHAT YOU ARE EXPECTED TO DO IF YOU ARE SELECTED FOR A SCHOLARSHIP AWARD:
Affidavit of Eligibility/Liability Release and Publicity Release.
Each Award Winner will be required to complete, execute and return an Affidavit of Eligibility/ Liability Release, and where lawful, a Publicity Release (collectively, the "Release Forms") within five (5) days of notification of Award, to complete the qualification process. These forms were provided in the Application Packet. These forms were warranted by You or your team’s Producer-Sponsor to have been correctly and fully completed before Application materials were submitted, and so may be Submitted by You or Your Team’s Producer-Sponsor upon request.
Failure to return Release Forms in a timely manner, or if an Award notification or the Award is returned as non-deliverable, or if an Awardee is found not to be eligible or not in compliance with the Terms, may result in disqualification with an alternate Award Winner selected in accordance with the Terms.
54. Publicity Release Terms.
Except where prohibited by law, participation by an Application for a Scholarship or a Submission for Selection for Compilation and Publication is acceptance of, consent to, and constitutes permission for, the Ant Theater SFC to use an Applicant's /Submitter’s name, photograph, likeness, statements, opinions, biographical information, voice as Submitted, or recorded in interview, and county and state of residence worldwide and in all forms of media, in perpetuity, absent any further approval, payment or compensation.
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55. Scholarship Award Opportunity Distribution Notification.
The Application/Submissions mapped on the matrix will be posted on the web site, updated at least monthly
Scholarship availability depends on the funding for the number of eligible Applicants received during the Scholarship Awards Cycle.
Ant Theater judges score the merits of received Application(s) /Submission(s)s by rubrics who will receive the scholarship grants.
These decisions are communicated confidentially to Ant Theater Administration, who then post to the potential recipients, to obtain the documents for verification of the representations in the Applications.
After the Awards have been tentatively approved, Ant Theater will post a request asking you(r team) to verify required facts.
Notification Posts by Member I D will be made on the website.
Each Sponsor-Producer of a team is notified to produce the original documents releases and warrantees for each of their team members.
Applicants will have been asked to have filled out required personal information such as their legal name, email address, physical address, date of birth and phone number in order to confirm eligibility and compliance with these Terms. Forms will now be expected at Ant Theater by mail.
56. Beginning in June 2015, Scholarship Awards recipients will be announced. If any selected potential Recipient(s) fail to respond on-line after five (5) business days from the first notification,
If it is a Producer-Sponsor, a second Designated Team member will be notified on the website.
If it is an individual sole-submitting Applicant who fails to respond within five days, the release form on file will be consulted for an e-mail or contact number, and a direct notice attempted in addition.
One more attempt will be made a week later.
Failing contact for these past two weeks, this Application will be deferred to the next cycle, and the next best scoring recipient will be announced.
Recognitions will still be listed, as decided by the judges.
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57. Award Fulfillment and Delivery
Awards will not be made until Awardee Status is determined.
Unlike the demographic survey questions, completed Ant Theater Scholarship legal papers is required to qualify for an award.
To qualify for the award offered by The Ant Theater S F C, you must have successfully completed all releases and warrantees in the Sponsor-Producers Application packet.
Ant Theater are not liable for any communication failures.
Once you receive and accept a Scholarship award, you will only be eligible to receive again in the next years' cycle for future awards.
Ant Theater reserves the right to send a check for the award.
The amount of the check shall be determined by Ant Theater guidelines, and you may receive any higher Tier endowment awards pursuant to the endowment or Name Award terms without further action on your part.
By cashing or depositing the Awards check, you agree that you have been made whole and relinquish your rights to pursue any and all claims against Ant Theater, its successors, assigns, affiliates, advertisers, and employees.
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58. Ant Theater's announced decisions are final and binding in all respects.
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59. WHAT YOU MAY DO TO SUBMIT OR APPLY FOR A SCHOLARSHIP:
By using information on the Ant Theater S. F. C.'s web site, accessing the domain "www.anttheater.org", you hereby accept and agree to these Terms of ANT THEATER, and/or Submitting derivative work for possible selection, publication, and distribution, and that the decisions of the Administrator(s) in connection with these Application(s) /Submission(s)s are final. derivative work
You also acknowledge that these processes provide valuable services to those engaged in theater and media presentation who are genuinely interested in trying to present sample material, and that you are accessing the Ant Theater Scholarship Website Pages solely for that purpose.
You may use Ant Theater's licensed Fully Restored Comedy and Mystery of Hamlet Content solely for your personal use.
You may print and store portions that you select for derivative work use.
No right, title or interest in any downloaded Content or materials is transferred to you as a result of any such downloading.
Ant Theater reserves complete title and full intellectual property rights in any Content you download from Ant Theater websites or the fully restored Hamlet: A Prince of a Fellow, or any derivative work representations presented by Ant Theater.
60. AND MAY NOT DO:
You may not modify, reformat, copy, reproduce, display, distribute, repost, transmit, publish, license, sell, rent, transfer, or create derivative works from any Content or information obtained from the website(s), except as expressly permitted by these Terms & Conditions.
You may not mirror or frame the home page or any other pages of the website on any other website or web page and may not connect links, including "deep links" to the website.
All rights are reserved, including copyrights.
You may not use a robot, scraper or other automated means of accessing the website(s).
61. Improper Conduct.
Ant Theater, in its sole discretion, may disqualify any Applicant or Submitter from participation in any or all portions of Ant Theater efforts, and refuse to award a grant, if an Applicant or Submitter engages in any conduct that Ant Theater Administrator(s) deems to be improper, unfair, or otherwise adverse, to the operation of Ant Theater, or detrimental to other Applicants of the Scholarships.
Such improper conduct includes, without limitation, falsifying personal information required during Applicant registration or Grant claim, violating any term or condition stated herein, (accumulating Applications or voting through methods such as automated computer scripts or any other programming techniques), allowing others to use any Applicant's personal information, for any unapproved purpose, or intentionally trying to defraud, reverse engineer, disassemble or otherwise tamper with any computer programs used in connection with these Scholarships.
62. WHAT MAY GET YOUR AWARD PUT ON HOLD OR DISQUALIFIED:
Grounds for Hold and/or Disqualification need not be disclosed, include:
Your Application/Submission may be placed on hold and/or disqualified for one or more of the following reasons:
-failing to meet the eligibility requirements;
-giving information that relates or belongs to another person without their valid written consent,
-providing information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current, incomplete, or invalid to Ant Theater, or a Producer-sponsor;
-selling or purchasing links to the Scholarship website;
-if we are notified you are using another person's credit card to donate: if another person is donating, that person must do so himself or herself;
-failing to meet the required timeframes for completing Applications for awards or providing requested information;
-failing to provide information confirming your identity, if required;
-aiding, promoting or participating in any activity that could be deemed unlawful or harmful to the reputation of Ant Theater, or the purposes of the Ant Theater Scholarships; and/or Resulting Processes/Products
-violating these Terms & Conditions; and/or
-any other reason or a combination of reasons at the sole discretion of the Ant Theater Board.
Applicants agree that Ant Theater may void any part of a Grant that Applicant may have been Awarded and/or require the return of any part of a Grant that Applicant may have won as a result of such improper conduct. If, after you have received a grant award, Ant Theater determine that you violated these Terms & Conditions, you have agreed to return the award at your expense. Additionally, Ant Theater reserves its right to pursue legal action against you. You, as Applicant, further acknowledge that any forfeiture of a Grant and/or return of a Grant shall in no way prevent Ant Theater from pursuing other avenues of recourse, such as criminal or civil proceedings in connection with such conduct.
63. FAIR WARNING:
ANY ATTEMPT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE OR UNDERCUT ANY LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THIS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION AND/OR PROCESSES OR PROGRAMS MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND, SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, EACH OF THE INVOLVED SUPPORT ENTITIES RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES OR OTHER REMEDIES FROM ANY SUCH PERSON(S) RESPONSIBLE FOR SUCH ATTEMPT TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
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64. APPLICATION PROCESS TO AWARDS:
Free pre-funded Application ticket numbers are posted beginning May 1. Any Member of a month or more may claim a number by posting the claim to that number first in the website messages.
Validated, that claimed number can Authorize an Individual or a Producer-Sponsor’s Team. Forms are provided for Download for Applicants, and Portfolio Submitters.
Applications and Submissions may be made at any time thereafter, prior to the deadline date of December 31st.
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65.Team Considerations
To Apply for Scholarships, a Producer-Sponsor must register the claimed Application ticket number, and, when validated, has one month to gather all Team ’s Member I D’s and submit them. to Ant Theater as the responsible contact person for the team effort that is sponsored.
The limit is one team Application submission per Application ticket number. Producer-Sponsors are required to present a new Application submission packet for each Application submission.
Awards are given as scholarship grants to individual Team members divided on a per capita basis to accepting team members.
We are reminded that only one scholarship can be awarded to any one team members per year. In other words, if I am on two Teams, and both receive Awards, I have to accept or decline a share of only one Award, state my choice, and the per capita division of the Award to each of the rest of the Team is adjusted accordingly.
Warranted information will be verified before awards are given out.
Only one award is allowed per each team member per year. Any awards that share the same name, email address, mailing or shipping address, telephone number, credit card, or IP address will be considered the same team Member for this purpose. By this rule multiple awards will be placed on hold or disqualified until matters are clarified.
One Applicant might participate in more than one winning team, yet one Applicant is only eligible to receive only one award. Each team members enjoys the right to choose eligibility individually to receive awards once unique identities are verified.
Even on a Team, you are responsible for maintaining the security of your own Member I D identity as a Scholarship Applicant and/or Submitter. Ant Theater entities are not liable for any losses incurred through the access to your information by a third party. ===============================================
66. ADJUSTMENTS of Status/ Screen Credit Change:
There is no way to cancel any Submission.
If you no longer wish to remain a part of a Team’s Application(s) /Submission(s), or wish to withdraw from a Scholarship Application, you should state your request to change in writing to:
Ant Theater
Attention: Status Change
P O Box 2256
Pasadena, CA 91102
If you wish to change your Screen Credit, please follow the instructions under CHANGE SCREEN CREDIT (above).
As policy, the renderer of the derivative work submission will be credited as the same renderer first directed the credit to be listed on Submission
If a renderer later wishes to change the credit listing to conform to a change in the renderer's personal or professional identification, Ant Theater will try to reasonably accommodate the change without any guarantee to effect the change. Such changes may be made only in compilations or listings not already in fixed media copies.
67. RETURNS
If you wish to decline or return or refuse a Scholarship Award, you may do so, and by so doing become eligible for an alternate Scholarship Award participation, if you do so within two weeks of the Announcement of the Award to be returned not transacted or in full.
68. Identity Dispute(s):
In the event of a dispute as to the identity of any Submitter(s), or Applicant(s), if based on an address or other information provided, status will be decided by Ant Theater's verification, unless prior copyright information is provided.
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69. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, TRADE, BRAND, and SERVICE MARKS
Ant Theater, Ant Theater logo, www.Ant Theater.org, and other Ant Theater marks, graphics, logos, scripts, and sounds are properties of Ant Theater. None of Ant Theater marks may be copied, downloaded, or otherwise exploited, except as licensed.
The Ant Theater SFC Scholarship Grant Awards, processes, resulting products, and all information and/or content that can be seen, heard or otherwise experienced from Ant Theater, including without limitation all offers, reports, text, video, graphics, audio, and other materials (collectively, the "Content") are protected by U.S. and international copyright, trademark and other laws, and belong to Ant Theater or to third parties.
You are prohibited from using any of the marks or logos appearing throughout without express written consent from the trademark owner, except as permitted by applicable law.
70. UNSOLICITED SUBMISSIONS
It is Ant Theater's policy not to accept any unsolicited submissions, including scripts, story lines, articles, fan fiction, characters, drawings, information, suggestions, ideas, or concepts. Ant Theater's policy is to delete or dispose of any such submission without reading it. Only donations of Derivative Works from the Standard Source Text are solicited. Therefore, any similarity between an unsolicited submission and any elements in any Ant Theater creative work, including a film, series, story, title, or concept, would be purely coincidental.
71. ANT THEATER S. F. C. DOES OUR REASONABLE BEST TO PROVIDE ANT THEATER SERVICES; EACH WEBSITE USER, VISITOR, MEMBER, APPLICANT, AND/OR SUBMITTER, [“YOU”] AGREE ANY DONATION TO, OR ACCESS OR USE OF ANT THEATER SERVICES IS WHOLLY AT YOUR OWN RISK.
72. ALL ANT THEATER CONTACTS AND SERVICES, INCLUDING ACCESS TO ANT THEATER WEBSITES, SCHOLARSHIP GRANT AWARDS, APPLICATIONS, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SUBJECT TO LICENSE, OR ANY OTHER CONTENT, INCLUDING PUBLICATIONS, NEWS LETTERS, AND ANY OTHER MATERIALS CONTAINED ON OR PROVIDED THROUGH ANY PRODUCTS, OR PRODUCTS THEMSELVES, ARE ALL PROVIDED "AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.
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76. YOU AGREE TO ASSUME TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY AND RISK FOR: YOUR ACCESS OR USE OF ANT THEATER , ITS WEBSITES, DOWNLOADS, APPLICATIONS OPPORTUNITIES, AND PROCESSES; COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH USE, APPLICATIONS, OR SUBMISSIONS, AND CONTENT; AND FOR EVALUATING THE ACCURACY, FITNESS, COMPLETENESS AND USEFULNESS OF ALL CONTENT. ANT THEATER MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, REPRESENTATIONS OR ENDORSEMENTS WHATSOEVER WITH RESPECT TO ANY INDIVIDUAL’S ACCESS OR USE OF THE SCHOLARSHIPS PROCESS OR CONTENT OR RESULTING PRODUCTS.
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79. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE ANT THEATER SCHOLARSHIPS FOUNDATION CORP., AND ANY ENTITIES, OR ITS AFFILIATES, SUCCESSORS, AND ASSIGNS, SUBSIDIARIES, DONORS, AND RELATED COMPANIES, THEIR ADVERTISING OR PROMOTION AGENCIES, OR THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, REPRESENTATIVES AND AGENTS, AND SUPPLIERS (INCLUDING DISTRIBUTORS AND CONTENT LICENSORS) OR PARTNERS OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING SERVICE PROVIDERS, AND ADVERTISERS, (COLLECTIVELY, THE "ANT THEATER PARTIES"),
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80. IN PARTICULAR, DONORS AND ADVERTISERS PERFORM AT THEIR OWN RISK, AND ARE RESPONSIBLE AS THIRD PARTIES FOR ANY INTERACTIONS THEY PROMOTE OR DEVELOP WITH ANY OTHER PARTIES AS A RESULT OF ANY ANT THEATER SERVICE MEDIATED ENCOUNTERS. ANT THEATER MAKES NO WARRANTEE CONCERNING ANY THIRD PARTY INTERACTIONS OR STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON ANT THEATER ENTITIES OR WEBSITES.
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82. CERTAIN LAWS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES. IF THESE LAWS APPLY TO YOU, SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE DISCLAIMERS, EXCLUSIONS, OR LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE ANT THEATER S F C WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE ARISING EITHER DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY FROM ANY USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE NON-PROFIT SCHOLARSHIP PROCESSES, CONTENT, RESULTING PRODUCTS, OR OTHER CONTENT. SOME JURISDICTIONS MAY NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. CHECK YOUR LOCAL LAWS FOR ANY RESTRICTIONS OR LIMITATIONS REGARDING THESE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS.
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87. Copyright infringements
Hamlet was one of the First Works to receive Crown Protection for parts of its content. While that protection long ago expired on the fragments that were then registered, and those that survived four episodes of censorship, the work of the Full Restoration of the Comedy and Mystery of Hamlet IS protected by current copyright. Those rendering, embedding, and/or performing derivative work for Scholarship Application and/or for submissions are granted a limited license exclusively for that sole purpose for a period of one year, defined as April 26th to April 25th. Ant Theater will respond expeditiously to claims of intellectual property infringement.
88. Ant Theater will promptly process and investigate notices of alleged infringement and will take appropriate actions under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") and other applicable intellectual property laws. Ant Theater, as an institution, expects its staff and affiliates to comply with U.S. copyright laws.
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89. NOTICE AND PROCEDURE FOR CLAIMS OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
If you know any Content being infringed, as by a Member Post, Submitter or Applicant, through Ant Theater, infringes your copyright, you should notify Ant Theater of your infringement claim in accordance with the procedure below.
Ant Theater will process each notice of alleged infringement that Ant Theater receives and take appropriate action in accordance with applicable intellectual property laws. If you are a copyright owner, or are authorized to act on behalf of one, or authorized to act under any exclusive right under copyright, please report the alleged copyright infringements taking place on or through the Website by completing the following DMCA Notice of Alleged Infringement and delivering it to Ant Theater’s Designated Copyright Agent by the U.S. Mail at:
Attention: Copyright Takedown Agent
Ant Theater
POBox 2256
Pasadena, CA 9110
Notification must be in writing and contain the following information:
(i-) (a-) your electronic or physical signature as the living person authorized to act on behalf of the owner,
(b-) who must also be identified if other than you, of an exclusive copyright interest;
(ii-) (c-) a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed,
(d-) citing the copyrighted work (author/creator, title/description, copyright date,
(e-) with a Statement of copyright ownership, and
(f-) a copy of exact evidence of copyright registration;
(iii-) (g-) a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on Ant Theater that is reasonably sufficient to enable Ant Theater to specifically identify and locate the material, and
(h-) the specifics of exactly which of the cited material is the subject of copyright violation, including
(j-) the URL (the Web address),
(k-) the date, time, and time zone in which you observed the Web site,
(m-) identify any reference or link, to the material or activity that you claim to be infringing,
(n-) that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled,
(o-) including at a minimum, if applicable, the URL of the link shown on the Website where such reference or link may be found;
(iv-) (p-) how Ant Theater can contact you, the complainant or person designated to act on his/ her behalf, including a valid postal address, a telephone number, and, if available, e-mail address;
(v-) (q-) a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
(vi-) (r-) a statement by you that the above information in your notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you (as complainant) are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner or the owner of an exclusive right in the material, including both of the following statements within the Notice before you sign:
"I hereby state that I have a good faith belief that the disputed use of the copyrighted material or reference or link to such material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law (e.g., as a fair use)."
AND: "I hereby state that the information in this Notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that I am the owner, or authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of the copyright or of an exclusive right under the copyright that is allegedly infringed."
(vii-) (s-) Sign your full legal name as your physical signature.
Note: There are legal and financial consequences for any fraudulent and/or bad faith notices claiming copyright violations, or for copyright violations as or within Application(s) /Submission(s)s made. Before submitting a notice, be sure that you are the actual rights holder of the content, and understand the repercussions of submitting a false claim.
To report alleged copyright infringements on Ant Theater Web sites, please contact Ant Theater's designated DMCA agent by Mailing this Notice, with all the information above, completed, to: !
Ant Theater S F C
Attention: Copyright Concerns
P. O. Box 2256
Pasadena, CA 91102 U.S.A.
90. Upon receipt of the Notice as described, if Ant Theater determines that U.S. copyright laws have in fact been violated, Ant Theater will take whatever action, in its sole discretion, it deems appropriate, including removal of the challenged material from the Website, and/or from the next edition of compilations, and proven to be infringing material will be permanently removed thereafter.
Ant Theater reserves the right to remove or limit access to material if it is alleged that U.S. copyright laws have been violated.
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91. ARBITRATION OF CLAIMS
PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY. IT AFFECTS YOUR RIGHTS.
Ant Theater expects to resolve most issues you may have with Ant Theater. In the unlikely event Ant Theater does not, Ant Theater specify now what each of us should expect in order to avoid any confusion later. You and Ant Theater agree to the following resolution process:
Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to these Terms and/or this Scholarships shall be settled by binding arbitration in accordance with the commercial arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association.
You agree any claim that you might have against Ant Theater regarding these Terms, Ant Theater Services, or Properties, must be resolved through binding arbitration before the American Arbitration Association using its Commercial Arbitration Rules. Ant Theater want to address any issues you might have promptly. To help us do that, you agree to begin any arbitration within one year after your claim arose; otherwise, your claim is waived.
Any such controversy or claim shall be arbitrated on an individual basis, and shall not be consolidated in any arbitration with any claim or controversy of any other party.
Ant Theater prefer to resolve our issues with you directly, you agree to arbitrate with Ant Theater only as an individual, not as a representative or member of a class. Your claims may not be joined with any other claims and there shall be no authority for any dispute to be arbitrated on a class-action basis or brought by a purported class representative.
- Arbitration hearings will be held in Los Angeles County, California.
- The arbitrator's decision will be binding and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction.
- Arbitration shall be conducted in the State of California, in Los Angeles County, in particular in the City of Pasadena if conveniently practicable, and judgment on the arbitration award may be entered into any court having jurisdiction thereof.
-Ant Theater prefer to satisfy your concerns as quickly and efficiently as possible, before initiating any arbitration. You agree to first discuss the matter informally with Ant Theater for at least 30 days. To do that, please send your full legal name and contact information, your concern and your proposed solution by mail to Ant Theater at:
Ant Theater,
Attn: Legal Department.
P O Box 2256,
Pasadena CA 91102
-Ant Theater value transparency. Thank you in advance for understanding why it’s important that you and Ant Theater agree on the process described in this Section.
92. The parties waive all rights to trial in any action or proceeding instituted in connection with these Terms and/or these Scholarships.
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93. GENERAL INFORMATION
Every provision of these Terms & Conditions will be construed, to the extent possible, so as to be valid and enforceable.
94. CALENDAR:
APPLICATIONS / SUBMISSIONS LAST CLOSING DATES
IN BROAD CATEGORIES,
APPLICATIONS/SUBMISSIONS CLOSE IN: 2014…… 2015
PRE-PRODUCTION & STILL ART…………12/31/14…10/31/15
MOTION & PERFORMANCE ART…………12/31/14…12/31/15
POST-PRODUCTION ART…………………..01/31/15…12/31/15
INTERACTIVE ART…………………………..02/28/15…01/31/15
GAME ART……………………………………03/31/15…03/31/15.
IMMERSIVE ART…………………………….03/31/15…03/31/15
IF ANY CLOSING DATE FALLS ON A U.S.POSTAL HOLIDAY, THE NEXT ACTIVE POSTAL DAY POSTMARK WILL BE THE CLOSING DATE.
THE AWARDS JUDGES’ SCORING WILL BE COMPLETED BY:
IN BROAD CATEGORIES, ……………..: 2014…… 2015
PRE-PRODUCTION & STILL ART…………03/31/15…12/31/15
MOTION & PERFORMANCE ART…………03//31/15…03/31/16
POST-PRODUCTION ART…………………..03/31/15…03/31/16
INTERACTIVE ART…………………………..05/31/15…04/30/16
GAME ART……………………………………06/30/15…06/31/16.
IMMERSIVE ART…………………………….06/301/15…06/31/16
THE AWARDS ANNOUNCEMENTS
will be made from ………………6/15 through 2/16….6/16 - 2/17
95. International Use.
Ant Theater is a California based company. Ant Theater's goal is to bring you as much monetary support as is legally available. Ant Theater is limited by the rights our content licensor grants to us. Using technologies to access the Content from territories where Ant Theater does not have rights, or does not offer services, is prohibited. Please check as Ant Theater lists Territories of Permitted Use.
At this time, Use is limited to:
CALIFORNIA COMPETENT ADULT RESIDENTS
97. K- Export Controls.
K2- Software and the transmission of applicable technical data, if any, in connection with Ant Theater Services are subject to export controls.
K1- You agree to comply with all applicable laws regarding software and the transmission of technical data exported from the United States or the country in which you reside.
98 L- No Waiver/Reliance.
L3- How Ant Theater responds to a party that is violating these Terms will be determined after carefully analyzing all of the facts and circumstances of a particular case. You may not rely upon Ant Theater's precise response with respect to one party or one situation as any indication of what Ant Theater might do with respect to another party or another situation, even if the parties or situations appear to you to be similar. Similarly, if Ant Theater fails to act in response to a violation of these Terms, you should not assume that Ant Theater does not object to the violation or even that Ant Theater is aware of it.
L2- In addition, you may not construe a waiver of any provision of these Terms with respect to any party as a waiver of that provision (or any other provision) with respect to either that party or any other party. Further, Ant Theater's decision to delay exercising or enforcing any right or remedy under these Terms shall not constitute a waiver of such right or remedy. Even if Ant Theater acts in a way that appears to you to be inconsistent with these Terms, Ant Theater's action shall not be deemed a waiver or constructive amendment of these Terms.
L1- Ant Theater may waive any term or condition at its sole discretion, so choose to not seek a remedy. No waiver by Ant Theater of any breach or default hereunder will be deemed to be a waiver of any preceding or subsequent breach or default. Ant Theater may waive any term or condition at its sole discretion. Such waiver will not be deemed a waiver of any other term or condition, whether similar or different. If any term or condition is invalid or unenforceable, that provision will be construed, limited, modified or, if necessary, severed, to the extent necessary to eliminate its invalidity or un- enforceability, and the other provisions will remain in full force and effect.
99. M- Choice of Governing Law and Forum.
Every provision of these Terms & Conditions will be construed, to the extent possible, so as to be valid and enforceable.
These Terms and all issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Terms,
or the rights and obligations of a submitter, scholarship Applicant, and/or an Administrator in connection with the Ant Theater and Scholarships,
are governed by, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of California, U.S.A.,
without giving effect to the conflict of laws or rules thereof, and any matters or proceedings which are not subject to arbitration as set forth in these Terms and/or for entering any judgment on an arbitration award, shall take place in the State of California, in the County of Los Angeles, in the City of Pasadena.
In the event of a claim by you against Ant Theater, you agree to submit to [Arbitration vs. the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts] located in the Los Angeles County of the State of California. In the event of a claim by Ant Theater against you, you agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts located where Ant Theater pursues its claim against you, which may include courts in the Los Angeles County of the State of California. Any offer is void where prohibited by law. Exclusive venue for any litigation arising from these Terms and Conditions shall be the State or Federal courts located in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
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100. - CHANGING A SCREEN CREDIT
Because of safeguards, to make an change of your personal Credit listing on any Application(s) /Submission(s) for next publication, you need to first confirm your identity: with a color photocopy of a REAL PHOTO I.D. submitted with your specific written signed change request, having your Member I.D.,your unique e-mail input with the exact time/zone/date of your membership enrollment, and enclose a check or USPS money order payable to Ant Theater for $45.00, at least 90 days before the close of that year’s submission period (Think of a New Year’s Resolution).
101 N- Assignment.
You may not assign any of your rights or delegate any of your obligations under these Terms without Ant Theater’s prior specific written consent. Any purported assignment without such consent will be null and void.
102 O- Section Headings.
The section headings used in these Terms are provided as a convenience to finding terms only and have no legal or contractual purpose or effect.
103 P- Correction of Errors and Inaccuracies.
Ant Theater Web Page Content may contain typographical errors or other errors or inaccuracies, and may not be correct or current. (This is not our intention at any time, but it happens.) Ant Theater reserves the right to correct any errors, inaccuracies or omissions, and to change or update the Content at any time without prior notice. Ant Theater does not, however, guarantee that any errors, inaccuracies or omissions will be corrected.
104 Q- CHANGES TO THE Terms BY Ant Theater
Q8- Ant Theater may amend these Terms at any time by posting amended Terms at Ant Theater.org. By posting, Ant Theater notifies you of the change.
Q7- Any material amendment to these Terms shall be effective automatically after it is initially posted or at the time of registration or renewed consent by your use, as applicable.
Q6- Ant Theater reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to revise these Terms & Conditions at any time, for any reason, without prior notice. Ant Theater also reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change the methods through which future selections for publication and distribution are made.
Q5- This may include changing the approval requirements necessary by increasing or decreasing the rubrics that must be completed to qualify, establishing or eliminating demographic divisions, and adding or decreasing the number of steps to confirm for publication.
Q4- Ant Theater may also add or remove any submission at any time.
Q3- Ant Theater will reasonably attempt to follow our published policy.
Q2- Please check these Terms & Conditions periodically for changes.
Q1- Your Application, Submission for distribution consideration, or website use or access following any such modification constitutes your agreement to follow and be bound by the Terms & Conditions as modified.
105 R- Integrity of Ant Theater Scholarships.
If, for any reason, Ant Theater is not capable of running as planned by reason of infection by computer virus, worms, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes which the Ant Theater Administrator, in its sole opinion, believes could corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of Ant Theater programs, Ant Theater reserves the right at its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend Scholarships and select from Applicants' Applications received prior to the action taken or in such other manner as Ant Theater may deem fair and appropriate.
106 S- Force Majeure.
Ant Theater, its subsidiaries, affiliates, distributors, licensors, partners, service-providers, advertisers, and each of their respective officers, directors, employees, and agents, shall not be deemed to be in breach of these Terms & Conditions or the Privacy Policy due to any delay, failure to perform, or interruption in the availability of. Ant Theater process or products resulting directly or indirectly from any act of nature or other cause beyond their reasonable control.
107 T- Survival.
All provisions of these Terms & Conditions that are intended to survive termination shall so survive.
108 U- Integration, Amendment.and Sever-ability
U3- These Terms, including our Privacy Policy, constitute the entire legal agreement between you and Ant Theater and govern your use of Ant Theater Services (including your use of the Content), and participation for each party. [These exclude any services Ant Theater may provide to you under a separate signed written agreement.] ANY OFFERS ARE VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW.
U2- These Terms may not be amended as an agreement providing an exception, except in a writing signed by Ant Theater’s Board, not with electronic or digital mark, but only inked written signatures on such an exceptional agreement.
U1 - These Terms operate to the fullest extent permissible by law. If any part of these Terms is held to be unlawful, void, or unenforceable, you and Ant Theater agree that the provision will be severable from these Terms, be interpreted to retain its nearest lawful real world meaning, and will not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
109 V- Crowd Funding Proceeds Restrictions
V2- Ant Theater can meet its aggressive resolution to award at least 90% of all received donor funds as Scholarships by allowing some Administrative participation in producing crowd-funding projects as portfolio delivery goals. Crowd-funding efforts are constrained by Ant Theater’s budget Terms.
V1- ANT THEATER may at its sole discretion offer resulting process/products in appreciation for donations and stretch goals to crowd-funded projects. Any such processes are subject to both Ant Theater’s budget rules and the restrictions set by the particular Crowd-Funding website organization.
110 W- TIME & TIME ZONE DATES:
W1- Because Ant Theater Service is offered in multiple time zones, for consistency, a "day" for purposes of these Terms begins sixty seconds before 12:01 a.m. Pacific Time and ends fifty-nine seconds after 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time of that same calendar day.
W2- Terms & Conditions: Last Updated: September 29, 2014
111 X Ant Theater Scholarship Awards List/Terms.
X3- The name(s) of Scholarship Grant Award Recipients may be posted on-line or published, according to the Terms, and Awardee’s default or correctively supplied consent.
X2- The name of those selected to be Scholarship Award Recipients may likewise be posted and Terms listed, in published compilations containing the Submissions and/or Applicants’ Derivative Work(s).
X1- Terms are posted on AntTheater.org
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112 Y- A NOTE TO DONORS of DONATIONS, ENDOWMENTS, and MENTOR PROGRAMS ABOUT YOUR DONOR AGREEMENT
Y2- By donating an endowment to our endowment and/or mentor matching programs, you are certifying you have read, understand and agree to these Terms & Conditions, as well as our Privacy Policy.
Y1- Ant Theater regards endowment and mentoring demographic distribution specifications as important, and will enter into contracts regarding future distributions. Mentors and Endowments may specify their Awards preferences, so long as judges’ selection from a specified qualified pool remains unbiased.
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113 z2- Questions for Additional Information. To keep overhead low, and funds for your grants higher, Ant Theater does not offer telephone support. Please send your questions, and concerns to Ant Theater by U.S. mail to:
ANT THEATER.
Attn: FAQ’s
P. O. Box 2256
Pasadena, CA 91102
114 z1-Language: Ant Theater’s express will is that these Terms & Conditions and all related documents have been drawn up in, and are defined by, English. To the extent any translated version of this agreement conflicts with the English version, the (U.S.) English version controls.
Thank you for visiting AntTheater.org and taking time to read these Terms. By your understanding and agreeing to these shared Terms, we will share better experiences. Enjoy our Ant Theater learning support opportunities!
IF YOU LOVE MEDIA and THEATER ARTS, YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT PLACE!
UPDATE: WE ARE NOW 501c3 !!!
WE WILL NOW BUILD OUT THIS SITE UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
IF YOU WANT TO DO MORE, YOU WILL WANT TO GO FURTHER INTO THIS SITE Next Week!
EARLIER, we commend the GlobeToGlobe Project, as it tours the Globe, tonight performing at the Folger Theater, Folger Library, in Washington, D.C. (which Globe's webmaster oddly listed as a Country, omitting the USA).
How does one send a DMCA notice to take copyright infringing material down from our site?
DMCA Takedown requests
Because we allow third parties to post content to our website, a third party may innocently, ignorantly, or deliberately, present other persons I.P. against our rules.
If you are, or are the authorized agent of, the I P rights holder to posted content, please be assured that copyright infringement is entirely against our policy, or that of any other web sites we support in our DMCA takedown capacity.
To report such an infringement for immediate action,
you must:
1- Identify what copyrighted work is being infringed. (Please include specifics* so we can also confirm the material, and also ascertain its copyright status)
should we at our sole discretion choose to do so.
2- Specify* what is the infringing, material and where the infringing material is located on our website;
3- Specify your email address and all other information that allows us to contact you or your agent directly;**
4- State your (or your agent’s) good faith belief that the infringing post is unauthorized;
5- State that information in your notice is accurate
6- State that your request is made under penalty of perjury.
7- You (or your agent authorized to act on your behalf) must sign physically or electronically. **
These elements are specified by copyright law to be included in a takedown notice. (If most of these elements are not specified enough to be verified, we may refuse that request to take down the material.)
DMCA takedown processes apply to all copyrightable work even if owner has yet to register their work with the U.S. Copyright Office. It only applies to copyright infringement claims.
You may send your take down request by U S mail to:
DMCA Take Down Secretary
Ant Theater Scholarship Foundation Corp.
P O Box 2256
Pasadena CA 911002
Or by email to:
dmca.admin@anttheater.org
If you email, please check your email for a “we have received your request” response within three days, and, if you have yet to receive that, please resend your DMCA Take Down Request. (Email is imperfect. Competent experts have determined that up to 10% of emails vanish from delivery before they can be read.)
We will post an explanation of where we are in handling the DMCA take down process. When web sites we service exclude keeping PCI or PII, we will post this request where the alleged infringing material was, immediately upon receipt. This will be the only possible notice to the post contributor
The poster may use their site poster identity to respond. This may include a request of counter-notice from the post contributor. If this alleged infringer in good faith does not think the post is infringing, he or she can send a counter notice explaining why they disagree with the copyright owner. That will also be posted as service of the counter notice to the person who sent the original takedown notice.
A counter notice must contain:
1- The identifying specifics* of alleged infringing material and its location prior to its removal per the take down request.
2- The identity of the alleged infringer as rights owner (or agent) with contact means: name, contact address, email and/or phone number**.
3- Statement of good faith or belief that the material challenged was original, fair use, or in public domain.
4- Statement of good faith belief that the removal (and/or disabling of a linkage) is the result of a mistake, or misidentification.
5- Statement of consent to be sued in U.S. Federal Court.
6- State that your counter-notice is made under penalty of perjury.
7- You (or your agent authorized to act on your behalf) must sign physically or electronically.
Current law provides that once the post is so noticed, the rights holder may sue the alleged infringer in civil court within 14 calendar days (or 10 business days, whichever is longer). A scan or image of the front page of the filed suit showing the case number should be sent to the DMCA Take Down Secretary. If that is done, the alleged infringing post will remain taken down until the suit is settled, and per court decision.
If an image of the filed suit fails to be timely received, the post that is alleged to have been infringing will be attached to the post locus as a newly posted contribution.
*- A logical question is ‘how to do this without causing a repeat of the alleged offense?’ An example may suffice: “In the comment beginning ‘Phred Phrog’, the words starting ‘Tom Bombadil’ and the 367 words afterwards until the concluding words ‘the Orc died’.”
** - We avoid retaining PCI or PII. A one use code will encrypt for on screen display, and each data will be redacted as requested; once redacted, same will be purged from our own records.
LAST PREVIOUS UPDATE! AS WE ARE GOING ACTIVE, but not all parts are quite ready yet, here are some announcements
1. Google has so disrupted the e-mediated publishing world that we are re-evaluating our source publications.
In the meantime, the plain old censored Hamlet will do until we get that done, which we will do ASAP.
We will post the Matrix with e-mail addresses to claim reservations this weekend.
2. We are shifting to screen responsive Word Press ASAP also. Meanwhile weekly continues to serve us well, though only one way. Check back for updates!
From Not So Long Ago: EXTRA! OSCAR SUNDAY ANNOUNCEMENT THAT MANY HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR since 2012.
ANT THEATER IS ACTIVE AS A NON-PROFIT! CA 3500 & under fiscal sponsor Noble Charities, 501c3.
The letter allowing this has arrived! First in CALIFORNIA, home of Hollywood! Check back later for more information and developments.
This is New Updated Information. (Matrix is the next to be updated.) It explains what we do. It is still being organized into its final pages.
TERMS OF PARTICIPATION (“Terms”) of
THE ANT THEATER SCHOLARSHIPS FOUNDATION CORP.
("ANT THEATER S. F. C. " or "ANT THEATER")
(a non-profit corporation)
© and ALL RIGHTS RESERVED BY A TRIMPI, 2014, 2016
Welcome to our ANT THEATER: We want you to do better.
In five words: Ant Theater distributes raised media Scholarships.
"Ant Theater is The Best Channel for Providing Cost-Effective
Theater and Media Arts Scholarship Career Education Grants.”
- C. A. Shakespeare, on the Internet.
Where do I fit in? Look here. (Also, see the Play Matrix: The Early Bird Gets the First Turn!)
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We note #ChristopherLee among those who inspired Ant Theater. Mr Lee inspired human understanding.
A Lee Grant will be fan funded.
Fans, help choose the demographics for the Lee Grant.
Please leave your thoughts on the Delphi Forums Ant Theater Community page.
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Are you..? SEE:
PHASE 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
History Still Art Motion Art Game Art InterActive Immersive Portfolio Grants* Mentoring
Curious x x x x x x x x x
A Theater Performer x x x x x x x
An Actor x x x x x x x
A Musical Performer x x x x x x x x
A Student x x x x x x x x* x
A Fan x x x x x x x x
An Instructor or Coach x x x x x x x x x
In Theater Trades x x x x x x x x
In Movie Trades x x x x x x x x
A Graphic Artist x x x x x x x x
A CGI expert x x x x x x x x
A Game Maker x x x x x x x x
In Immersive Media x x x x x x x x
An Equipment Producer x x x x x ads x x
A Software Producer x x x x x ads x x
In Human Resources? x
PHASE 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
History Still Art Motion Art Game Art InterActive Immersive Portfolio Grants* Mentoring
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*- You must ALSO be in a class, as a student, to qualify for grants. See details.
If you are dropping in during our web site Construction, what follows is a more legal wording, under change.
The material below will be written out for you as a usual web site reader very soon. Come back and watch our progress!
This Site explains Ant Theater Operations, updated during March, 2015.
Another site is for the Ant Theater community sharing, posts, and your input. That site is [TBA very shortly - pending @ Delphi].
All content submissions (for Freemium Portfolio and Grant Applications) will be in fixed form media. (See FAQ.)
(If you have a question not answered by FAQs, you may submit it at [TBA very shortly].Does that really work? Yes.
We were asked at Long Beach Comic Expo: Do we have a holographic performance category in our demographic matrix? We do now!)
Ant Theater’s major financial activity is to raise and award scholarship grants (“Awards”) subject to the following terms and conditions, and host members’ participation by access to Ant Theater communications. Noting defunding of Theater Arts and Media Presentation in California, Ant Theater set its purpose to provide support to enrolled students seeking to learn mastery of such key features of our highly distributed technological culture.
1- Ant Theater, asks you to please read these Terms carefully before using Ant Theater. By using our website, you agree to be bound by, and to comply with, these Terms and the License extended to you through Ant Theater. We, at Ant Theater, want you to get the most out of your choices, to feel welcome to share our mutual-support learning Community.
2- If you are a legal adult, You can JOIN Ant Theater FOR FREE by submitting a unique user name & e-mail address, and You will get an Ant Theater club code number:[ | | | | ][ | | | | ][ | |/| | ][ | | | | ][ | | | | ][ | | | | ]. You will find out how to register anonymously (to us) in order to post on the Ant Theater Community website.
TERMS OF PARTICIPATION (“Terms”) of The Ant Theater SCHOLARSHIPS FOUNDATION CORP. ("ANT THEATER S. F. C. " or "ANT THEATER") (a non-profit corporation)
© and ALL RIGHTS RESERVED BY ATRIMPI, 2014
3- PERMISSION: These terms contract to govern your use of Ant Theater.
4 YOUR AGREEMENT:
4a- By using the website, registering as a Member, and/or making a Scholarship Application/Submission, or other donation, you are certifying you have read, understand and agree to, these Terms & Conditions, as well as our Privacy Policy.
4b- You understand this Scholarship program is to provides valuable awards to those engaged in learning theater arts and media presentation, and that you are accessing this Scholarship solely to further that purpose.
4c- By using information on the Ant Theater S. F. C. 's web site, or accessing the domain "www.anttheater.org", you hereby accept and agree to the Terms of ANT THEATER Scholarship Grant selection process, and/or by Submitting a Derivative Work Donation with a Release/Waiver for possible selection, publication, and distribution, you agree that all decisions of the Administrator(s) in connection with Application(s) /Submission(s)s are final. By use of Ant Theater Service (including any Content), you agree to the then-current terms.
4d- IF YOU DO NOT AGREE & ACCEPT ALL THESE CONDITIONS & TERMS, YOU ARE NOT LICENSED NOR AUTHORIZED TO MAKE ANT THEATER DERIVATIVE WORK, NOR SUBMIT ANY MATERIAL TO ANT THEATER, NOR POST ON ITS WEBSITE(S) FOR ANY PURPOSE.
4e-You acknowledge that Ant Theater provide valuable services to those learning to engage in theater and media presentation who are genuinely interested in presenting exemplars of material, and that you are accessing the website solely to support that purpose. Your presence on the Ant Theater Site(s) and use of Ant Theater Services or any of its Properties are governed by the Ant Theater Terms and the Privacy Policy in effect at the time
4f- Ant Theater reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to revise these Terms & Conditions at any time, for any reason, without notice. Ant Theater also reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change the methods through which future selections for publication and distribution of Scholarship Grant Awards and compilations are made, though we hope our expressed plans will work and not need any corrective changes.
Changes to the approval requirements, as increasing or decreasing the rubrics to be met to qualify, establishing or eliminating any demographic divisions, or adding or decreasing the number of steps to confirm qualification for an award, or adding or removing any award or Application(s) /Submission(s). are possible as Board decisions for Ant Theater’s mission.
4g- Please check this website for the current terms before you participate. If you receive one award, you are considered for the next level(s) of awards.
Your Application(s) /Submission(s) of a donation of Derivative Work for consideration for use or distribution following any such modification constitutes your agreement to follow and be bound by the Terms & Conditions as modified. The last date these Terms & Conditions were revised is [9/14].
(Ant Theater will reasonably attempt to follow our published policy. )
4h- You agree that these Terms have the force and effect of an Agreement signed in writing. (You also agree to resolve any dispute by arbitration, by AAA*.)
Please take moments to carefully read through these Terms. If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact Ant Theater at
Ant Theater
Attn: Term Questions
P.O.Box 2256
Pasadena, CA., 91102
5- YOUR ELIGIBILITY:
Ant Theater solicits the voluntary donations of Derivative Works from the Standard Source Text both as part of any Application(s) /Submission(s) for Scholarship Grants, and for Portfolio purposes, from Ant Theater members.
5a- To JOIN as a MEMBER: You must be a legally competent adult. You need not make any Application(s) /Submission(s) to be a Member.
5b- To SUBMIT PORTFOLIO material: You must be a legally competent adult Californian. (Submitting Derivative Work for Portfolio constitutes an additional legally binding agreement between the Member and Ant Theater according to the terms, conditions, and covenants contained herein. See release/waiver Terms.))
5c- To APPLY for a SCHOLARSHIP GRANT AWARD:
You must be a legally competent adult CALIFORNIA resident, at least 18 years old, with a valid U.S. e-mail and a U.S, postal address, and be ENROLLED in a RECOGNIZED SCHOOL or EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM to be eligible to receive a scholarship grant. These include programs from four year universities, graduate schools, Community Colleges, and programs such as Higher, Adult, and Life-long Learning Education (HALE) programs. (Submitting an application for a Scholarship Award constitutes an additional legally binding agreement between an Applicant and Ant Theater, according to the terms, its conditions, and covenants.)
5d- To announce as a Candidate for a Mentorship:
You must be a legally competent adult Californian.
(Other required qualifications are listed under each participation.) *
5e- In order to sign up, you must
(i-) provide true, complete, and up-to-date appropriate registration information about yourself, (ii-) agree to abide by these Terms.
(iii-) You must be legally capable to enter into contracts.
5f- Ant Theater reserves the right to refuse service or to terminate accounts for any user and to change eligibility requirements at any time.
6- for MEMBERSHIP:
You will need to establish a login member account to access and use the Ant Theater Community Social Website. (location to be announced). [This is one of several features awaiting activation immediately after FTB approval.]
Only one user is permitted per login and membership I.D.. This is a website for Community interaction only. Ant Theater may refuse use of any login that Ant Theater determines is unacceptable, and cancel the login.
7 for PORTFOLIO:
You will need to have been a member for at least [[ONE MONTH]] .
You will need to claim a passage and Techno-Demographic rendering means on the Play Matrix with your member ID, by posting your Portfolio claim to the Ant Theater Page. Ant Theater will post to the Matrix.
When you deliver a suitable derivative rendering, fixed on DVD or CD, with the executed industry warrantee, waiver, and release documents.your post will be fixed in the Play Matrix.
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PLAY MATRIX: This a chart of passages or sequences in the play that are partitioned by the announced intent of Applicants/Submitters by Act,Scene, and Line, which are then tentatively mapped to the chart, Claims become fixed when rendered derivative works are received. These will be compiled.
YOUR KEY ANT THEATER DATES (YOU SHOULD KEEP A RECORD OF):
Membership Joining Date: retain this with your copy of your Member I D.
Application Sign-up Date (for claiming free Application(s) /Submission(s) ticket number)
Submission Date - and Submission I.D. number - completed submission is submitted
Portfolio Submission Date - and Submission I D number - completed submission is submitted
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8- for APPLICATION FOR SCHOLARSHIP GRANT AWARD:
Applicant must have been a member for at least [[45 days]]
Applicant must claim a free Applicant Number from the Ant Theater website, matching the Applicants demographics.
Applicant must replicate the Portfolio process for initiating submission.
8a- A sole-acting Applicant must submit an Ant Theater Application Form, downloaded, completed, along with Portfolio Documents, by snail-mail, to: [[THE MATRIX TO ENABLE THIS WILL BE POSTED IN A FEW WEEKS; WE ARE PREPARING FOR THE 2015-2016 AWARDS CALENDAR.]
ANT THEATER
APPLICATIONS
P O Box 2256
Pasadena CA 91102
8b- Each Applicant Team must be represented by a single Producer-Sponsor who accepts their responsibilities to communicate with Ant Theater. A Producer-Sponsor warrants all documents are completed, correctly, fully, and properly executed, and all Applicants qualified on this team. All this may be done en masse by a ProducerSponsor, who takes responsibility that all documents are securely retained until a decision selects award recipients. If this team is to receive awards, the documents must be sent in to be verified, and retained, by Ant Theater.
A Producer -Sponsor accepts responsibilities according to the Terms.
9- Applicant Representations and Covenants
By submitting an Application, Applicants represent and warrant that:
9a- The information in the application is and will be true and accurate.
9b- The rendering contained in the Application is derivative work from the standard source, and will not infringe upon the rights, including privacy and intellectual property rights, of any third party.
9c- The Applicant has and will have the right and authority to submit the derivative work content in its Application to AntTheater.
9d- The Applicant has acted under permissive license, from Ant Theater, as appropriate, for Standard Source Material,
9e- The Applicant has obtained permissive license(s) from any third party for conveying rights for any third party materials, information, or other intellectual property contained in its application to Ant Theater, and that all such rights do not conflict with Ant Theater’s own Terms in any way if the third party work is incorporated into Ant Theater’s compilations of work derivative from the Standard Source Material; OR Applicant has documented that any third party materials are in the Public Domain.
9f- The Applicant will comply with all applicable rules, laws, and regulations in connection with its activities relating to an Ant Theater scholarship application.
9g- The Applicant will not attempt to hold AntTheater responsible or liable for any violation of any third party’s intellectual property rights as a result of Applicant’s participation.
9h- The Applicant has no business or close family (parent, sibling, spouse, child) relationship with any officer, member, employee, shareholder, director or senior management person of Ant Theater.
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What legally competent California adults are INELIGIBLE?
Employees and independent contractors of Ant Theater, Ant Theater staff, their close family (parents, spouses, children, grandchildren, siblings, in-laws, and any residing members of the same households as Ant Theater’s staff families, promotion agencies and legal and financial advisors are not eligible to apply for scholarships.
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10- Either individually or as a team member, each Applicant person is limited to only receive one Tier One scholarship award in any Award Announcement Cycle. (Award announcements are phased by techno-demographic discipline areas from June through the next March. All Awards become fixed on March 31st of each Award cycle).
11- An individual may receive multiple recognitions,.
12- An announced recipient may decline or return any announced Scholarship Award within two calendar weeks of being offered that Award, and no later than prior to March 1st of the Award Cycle in order to have eligibility for another possible award. Ant Theater will accept returned awards. By declining or returning an award, you are relinquishing your claim to the award. Any such decision will not change the evaluations for any jury that has decided or will still be deciding for any Award.
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WHY THE ANONYMITY?
The Integrity of Ant Theater Scholarships and processes require anonymity. Ant Theater uses judges from the Trades to effectively discover and support their own creative talent to be award support for skill improvement in all aspects of Theater Arts and Media Production. Anonymity insulates the judges from workplace pressure. A clear exception occurs when a known celebrity is submitting as part of a team, permitted in the Professional Portfolio category, as a charity performance donation.
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13. PRIVACY POLICY:
13a- Our Privacy Policy is here to help you understand when Ant Theater collect and how Ant Theater use any information. Your security is important to us. Ant Theater encourage members to only use Member ID’s for posting on-line. That’s how Ant Theater will notify you of your status events. It is your responsibility to track the award announcements by Ant Theater regarding the success status of your Application(s) /Submission(s). Ant Theater do not offer telephone support. If a concern is yet to be addressed in our FAQ page, questions, comments and concerns may be posts on our members website.
Briefly, all members’ privacy is reserved to them individually, and portfolio privacy is protected by off-line encryption, and applicant’s privacy is air-gap protected, and verification only upon selection for a scholarship award, and then also air gap protected.
13b- You consent to the collection and use of information you provide in accordance with Ant Theater's Privacy Policy. The Privacy Policy is part of this Agreement and you agree that use of data as described in the Privacy Policy is not an actionable breach of your privacy or publicity rights. You grant perpetual use of your likeness, voice and image, as submitted, to be published by Ant Theater in any media in perpetuity, with all rights to same. You agree that use of your stage or screen or trade name, as designated by you, and your image and voice, as recorded if you agree to be interviewed, of county of residence, or other demographic data of the class which you elect, if published, is not an actionable breach of your privacy or publicity rights.
13c- Ant Theater will occasionally update this Privacy Policy. When Ant Theater post changes to this Privacy Policy, Ant Theater will revise the "last updated" date at the top of this [Privacy] Policy. Ant Theater recommend that you check our website from time to time to inform yourself of any changes in this [Privacy] Policy or any of our other policies. Your chosen type of participation trigger different privacy information policies:
By submitting or donating, you are certifying you have read, understand and agree to these Terms & Conditions, as well as our Privacy Policy.
Claiming a scholarship grant award: A matched photo name I.D. matched to a unique school student registration number I.D., matched to the previous unique signature name, being a legal professional stage or screen or trade name, with documents as required with the submission, and retained in air-gap separated files. (Unless you have filed for and been granted a legal name change, your legal name is your birth or married name. Credits will be listed with a name as you direct, so long as it does not belong to, or relate falsely to, someone else. You are responsible to make this determination, as part of your Application/Submission obligation.)
13d- Applying for a scholarship grant: A unique signature name, being a legal professional stage, screen, or trade name, and a a unique school student registration number, is required with the submission, as is a signed release and waiver, to be and retained in air-gap separated files. (If you are part of a Team Application for a scholarship grant, your Producer-Sponsor is responsible for collecting and safe-keeping all personal information, qualifying releases, waivers, and warrantees, unless and until your submission is selected for a scholarship grant. At that point, your above required Claimant additional information must then be confirmed by Ant Theater.)
13e- Submit for portfolio publication: A unique signature name, being a legal professional stage or screen or trade name, is required with the submission, on a required release, warrantee, and waiver, retained in air-gap separated files matched with the coded name [Member I D] of the performer, or renderer of derivative work.
13f- By submitting any Derivative Work, you consent to the use and collection of your information in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
13g- Member: Ant Theater validates uniqueness by e-mail. You agree that Ant Theater may use this
Personal Data to obtain anonymous ID.
Web site visitor: Ant Theater collects no I.D. information.
13h- No PII financial info is required to submit or apply to Ant Theater. Our only Means to Identify you that Ant Theater retains on-line is an anonymized Member ID. Financial PII is only obtained by us, when and as necessary to convey an award to you; and that is protected by air gap. Then Ant Theater require more PII to disburse funds to you, or by your producer-sponsor. Donor’s information may only be provided with that Donor’s consent. If required, that information may be shared as required with tax agencies, or LEAs presenting sub poena authority. Otherwise, PII contact information provided to Ant Theater will only be used by us, as described, and not conveyed to others.
14- Credit List: Published Derivative Work will be credited, either by Your name that you direct to list, or remain as a contact in anonymized I D on publication.You agree that this use of this data is not an actionable breach of your privacy or publicity rights. The Author for copyright purposes is Ant Theater, as under license from the Source Provider.
15- If you donate on-line to Ant Theater, only [[PayPal]] takes personal financial transaction information. If you wish credit, or to endow by contract, in any contractual transaction for funds, Ant Theater collects only offered and/or usual contractual financial or transaction information, (so as to draft terms to specify awards, per conditions and terms).
16- SECURITY NOTE: Ant Theater does not send purchase offers, nor e-mail requests for PII, and is unable to honor any e-mail unsubscribe requests, since subscriptions are functions of third party programs. If you receive unwanted offers via e-mail, please follow the unsubscribe instructions included therein.
17- You agree that publishing your professional stage, screen or trade name, as designated by you, and your image and voice if submitted, and as recorded if you agree to be interviewed, the interview, and city/county or area residence or other demographic data pertaining to the pool in which you were recognized, is not an actionable breach of your privacy or publicity rights.
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Ant Theater will use the following definitions in this Agreement:
PII or Personally Identifying Information: Any Information that can permit a person to be identified: usually means legal signature name, phone number, contact address, or financial information. Financial PII is a separate category, and only collected by PayPal, unless we give you a Scholarship Grant Award, in which case Ant Theater retains the minimum information, air gapped. (Ant Theater looks forward to use of third party transmission services for digital Award components.)
USER: The first level of participation in Ant Theater: coming as a Visitor. Ant Theater collects no PII.
MEMBER: The second level, when you sign up to Ant Theater: this entitles you to the opportunity to being included in Ant Theater’s Freemium Promotion Portfolio Matrix compilation. If you submit, Ant Theater will anonymize your PII, and archive your legal name and submission waiver off-line.
APPLICANT: If you are a natural person, you may apply yourself, or with qualified other individuals as a team, for an Ant Theater Scholarship Grant Award. Ant Theater accepts that you have all the information required on your form, which must be verified IF, and only IF, you are an awardee, before you may receive the Award. (Applicants not selected for Scholarship Awards have their Application Submissions published in that year’s compilation by default.)
AWARDEE: If you are awarded a scholarship, you must then provide the information required for Ant Theater to verify that you are qualified to receive the Award.
JURISDICTION: (above Arbitration) The place whose Laws control disputes
ARBITRATION: A process that is faster than Court, using professional decision makers respecting matters of contract law.
AGREEMENT: An Acceptance of Our Terms as governing our relationship.
UPDATE: Change to terms made as of a certain date, either by Ant Theater, or a law-making body with proper jurisdiction.
TERMS of SERVICE: The Rules of the Relationship.
CALIFORNIA: A State in the United States of America
LOS ANGELES: A County having legal jurisdiction over all matters concerning contracts in Pasadena, (also Hollywood, and the locations of media studios of major producers and Digital Companies such as: ABC-Disney, Bitropolis, Columbia, Electronic Arts, MGM, Paramount, SKG-Dreamworks, Sony Pictures, Universal Studios, Warner Brothers, etc.)
"You" means the entity or person who access or uses the Website as an end user.
"Login" means the combination of a unique username and password that is used to access a website. A login is a license to use a website for a period of time that is specified.
"Membership" or "Members" means a single registration account per user of a valid Member ID and password login for the website during the term of membership.
"Website" or "AntTheater.org" is the website for which you obtain your Member I D, and instructions as to how password login from AntTheater.org or its affiliates in order to access the website(s) and its materials and obtain the benefits of membership.
STANDARD SOURCE TEXT: Ant Theater uses as its standard The Full Restoration of the Comedy and Mystery of Hamlet publishing project.
[This will republished on-line soon; everything can't be first. There's plenty of time.]]
[You may see more terms listed at the End of the Terms of Service.]
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18. Description of services:
18a. The Ant Theater will produce:
Ant Theater Scholarship Grant Awards, public awards and recognitions, facilitating contact among learners, incubating freemium Promotional option, a mentorship matching channel.
The Past as Prologue:
When the Modern Era ended in 1993, with the birth of InterNet distributed communications, Modern Theater seemed out-dated, and disconnected to the freshly born Media Presentation options being developed. Ant Theater is designed to redress the rampant defunding by budget stressed school districts of classes in the Theater Arts and all forms of Media Presentation. Its support is designed to further incentivize this education of the most talented of those who were deprived of those learning opportunities, yet who are enrolled in study in a four year college or university, a community college, or a professional extension or distance learning program such as the Higher Adult and Life-long Education (HALE) programs, from institutions like MIT, Harvard, Cornell, MSU, and others recognized and recommended for those still serving and for returning veterans, who find part-time jobs that support families while going to school have all but vanished.
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Why do we need this Service to be provided?
Western civilization has mostly avoided the American error of decades of defunding media education. In almost every other developed country, passing a full year of analytic media education is required in order to graduate from high school: We are speaking, not of sitting and watching media, but of actively deconstructing media and its production to discover what can be learned about its physical, sensory, psychological, and humanly dynamic processes, both as a science and in practice. Economic analysts now speak routinely of the “screen surface of vulnerability” of our many electronic interfaces, as State and NGO players with active programs execute plans to pragmatically aggress through media for economic advantage. This is the way Economic Analysts spoke of the growth of Global-Local Economic Competition Opportunities only a decade ago.
The Answering Heart of Ant Theater is to support creative talent in its Education in Theater Arts and Media. To identify Creativity requires a baseline provided by a Standard Source Text. (Otherwise, Creativity may become lost behind facades of mere screen value.) Our financial design is to support those with interest and creative talents, discovered by using rubrics and juried evaluations by trade professionals. To feed that financing engine requires a supporting Community of Interest, attracting both practitioners without the same financial need (Portfolio submitters), and also more who will be communicating to a broader public, a fan base that builds a growing general public conversation (Members).
Each community requires a different kind of service:
Scholarship Grant Awards are our core activity, to support those actively learning, with recognitions, which needs to be sustained by broad public financial support, to continue to incentivize learning the uses, techniques and understandings of media transforming new technologies and the transformed contexts these produce.
The Community of Interest requires an opportunity drawing interest of those semi-informed who live in this world of media arts presentation, such as the Freemium Portfolio opportunity. They will then measure themselves against the Scholarship Award community, and increasingly realize the value of what they still have to learn, and its effective utility in the practice of Theater Arts and Media. They will inherently seek the Audience of Broader Communities, both professionally and publicly, and bring in more persons as they reveal what they know, and learn. They will multiply the encouragement of the discovered stars, new research, and techniques as they observe and learn more and more.
The Members are the fan base, the growing broad audience, the rooters, the outreach to the whole General Public. They require free access to the process, the postings, the proven regrowth of appreciation, for the effects of the knowledge base that underlies these arts. Continuing to conceal from our own learners what our competitors are studying no longer monopolizes the world market.
Most media producers already know this. All Media Industries’ support may be expected, from stage to electronic, from screen to interactive immersive.
Companies that intend to mentor, or sponsor mentorships, are encouraged to participate in the Ant Theater Community.
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18b. The Purposeful Practice of Ant Theater
The purpose of the Award is to systematically encourage the learning of more theater and media presentation skills in the English speaking world* (see demographic eligibility) by
(i) facilitating student study in its basics, and applied development,
(ii) enhancing mentoring and other community supports for aspiring theater and media renderers,
(iii) supporting early-stage co-operative peer feedback from the professional growth community, and
(iv) attracting more interested funding.
18c. Ant Theater will award at least one basic (Tier One) grant for each 70 Applications, with other higher awards, as available. Demographic Pools as small as 32 can be funded, or defined. Ant Theater will attract as grant Applicants those creative persons who demonstrate creativity and exercise potential from among their nearest-peer demographics.
The Scholarship Grant Award activity focuses on Applicants who intend to, and do, work in theater and media presentation, while studying for its improvement.
All applicants will be grouped to their closest demographics for awards selections.
18d. AntTheater.org offers an online service enabling members access to its Community, and some of its content, and gives members the opportunity to share their own content and research.
18e. Ant Theater will provide one login to access the website and its contents. Ant Theater offer our Websites for informational educational purposes only.
You may use AntTheater.org only for lawful purposes and you are strictly forbidden from using AntTheater in violation of the rights of anyone else.
18f. Ant Theater will provide a free online video “(dot)TV channel” to offer a selection of movies, clips, and other content of Standard Source Derivative or Public Domain Work related to the Standard Source Text (collectively, the “Content") on a rotating basis. Ant Theater video service, the Content, and any other features, tools, applications, materials, or other services offered from time to time by Ant Theater in connection with its activities, however accessed, are referred to collectively as “Properties’ of the "Ant Theater Services."
Content is available for permissible viewing through the following: Ant Theater.org website (the "Ant Theater Website");
18g. Ant Theater's affiliate websites;
and Ant Theater authorized applications, features, products, or licensed Content or devices.
18h. Use of Ant Theater Services (including access to the Content and Properties) is only permitted compliant with these Terms and any other end user license agreement that might accompany an Ant Theater application, feature or device.
18i. Ant Theater Services are provided to you as a Member free-of-charge. Please familiarize yourself with the provisions in these Terms. Ant Theater Properties are for your use and study in accordance with these Terms. To access Ant Theater Content, you must agree to, and follow, the terms and conditions in these Terms. By visiting the Ant Theater Website or using any of Ant Theater Services (including accessing any Content) you are agreeing to these Terms.Please read through these Terms. If you have any questions or comments about these Terms, please contact Ant Theater at: Ant Theater POBox 2256, Pasadena CA 91102
19. ACCESS AND USE OF Ant Theater SERVICES
Age Limitations. Ant Theater Services are only for adults at this time, and not now intended to be used by minors. (However, expansion of the program into high schools, once state mandated reporting and other access requirements are met, is contemplated. This would result funds awarded only for college use.).
19a Your License.
Ant Theater grants Members a non-exclusive limited license to use Ant Theater Services and Properties, including accessing and viewing the Content as provided, for personal, non- commercial educational purposes as set forth in these Terms.
19b. Content.
(i-) You may only access and view the Content personally and for a non-commercial educational purpose in compliance with these Terms. You may not either directly or through the use of any device, software, internet website, web-based service, or other means, remove, alter, bypass, avoid, interfere with, or circumvent any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices marked on the Content or any digital rights management mechanism, device, or other content protection or access control measure associated with the Content including geo-filtering mechanisms.
(ii-) You may not either directly or through the use of any device, software, internet website, web-based service, or other means copy, download, stream capture, reproduce, duplicate, archive, distribute, upload, publish, modify, translate, broadcast, perform, display, sell, transmit or retransmit the Content unless expressly permitted by Ant Theater in writing.
(iii-) You may not incorporate the Content into, or stream or retransmit the Content via, any hardware or software application or make it available via frames or in-line links unless expressly permitted by Ant Theater in writing.
(iv-) Furthermore, you may not create, recreate, distribute or advertise an index of any significant portion of the Content unless authorized in writing by Ant Theater. You may not build a business utilizing the Content, whether or not for profit. The Content covered by these restrictions includes without limitation any text, graphics, layout, interface, logos, photographs, audio and video materials, and stills.
(v-) In addition, you are licensed to render derivative works or embed materials derived from or based on the Content, if and only if all rights to such materials remain with Ant Theater, including single hand made montages, greeting cards, and mash-ups and similar videos, (these may be made only for Application(s) /Submission(s) to Ant Theater), but not wallpaper, desktop themes, greeting cards, and merchandise, unless expressly permitted by Ant Theater in writing. This prohibition applies even if you intend to give away the derivative materials free of charge.
20 I.P Integrity:
20a. You may not modify, enhance, remove, interfere with, or otherwise alter in any way any portion of any Product, its underlying technology, any digital rights management mechanism, device, or other content protection or access control measure incorporated into the Product.
20b. This restriction includes, without limitation, disabling, reverse engineering, modifying, interfering with or otherwise circumventing in any manner that enables users to view the Content without:
(i-) displaying visibly all surrounding elements (including the graphical user interface, any advertising, copyright notices, and trademarks);and
(ii-) having full access to all functionality of the Content, including, without limitation, all video quality and display functionality and all interactive, elective, or click-through advertising functionality.
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21. Embedding Music, Animation, Video, Interactive, Game, or Immersive Art.
21a. Ant Theater offers an opportunity to incorporate an embed option in connection with Content on Ant Theater Product:
you may embed Music, Animation, Video, Interactive, Game, or Immersive Art, provided you do not embed on any website or other location,
also provided that embeds do NOT
(i-) contain or host content that is unlawful, infringing, pornographic, obscene, defamatory, libelous, threatening, harassing, vulgar, indecent, profane, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, encourages criminal conduct, gives rise to civil liability, violates any law, rule, or regulation, infringes any right of any third party including intellectual property rights, or is otherwise inappropriate or objectionable to Ant Theater (in Ant Theater's sole discretion), or
(ii-) link to infringing or unauthorized content (collectively, "Unsuitable Material").
21b. You may not embed the Music, Animation, Video, Interactive, Game, or Immersive Art into any hardware or software application, even for non-commercial purposes.
2c. Ant Theater reserves the right to prevent embedding or linking to any website or other location that Ant Theater finds inappropriate or objectionable (as determined by Ant Theater in its sole discretion).
22. POSTS of USER REVIEWS, COMMENTS, AND OTHER MATERIAL
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22a. Ant Theater Service users have an opportunity to publish, transmit, submit, or otherwise post (collectively, "Post") reviews, comments, or other materials (collectively, "User Material"). In order to keep Ant Theater Services enjoyable for all of our users, we ask you adhere to the Terms below.
22b. Please choose your User Material to Post carefully. Please limit yourself to User Material directly relevant to Ant Theater Services.
22c. You must not Post User Material that:
(i-) contains Unsuitable Material (as defined above); or
(ii-) improperly claims the identity of another person.
22d. Ant Theater asks you to please use your Member ID each time you Post to Member accessible pages. Ant Theater advises that you should not Post personally identifiable information, such as a real name, or street address. When noticed, these may be removed. If you choose to share business mobile or e-contact information, wholly private messaging is recommended.
22e. Your “User Material” is material you wholly originate or have permission from the person who wholly originated it to post. (By contrast, Derivative Work derives from and belongs to Ant Theater, and is not your User Material, but is Ant Theater’s.)
22f. You must have first obtained permission from the rightful owner of any User Material you Post. By submitting User Material, you represent and warrant that you own the User Material or otherwise have the right to grant Ant Theater the license provided below. You also represent and warrant that the Posting of your User Material does not violate any right of any party, including privacy rights, publicity rights, and intellectual property rights.
22g. In addition, you agree you must have paid all royalties, fees, and other payments owed to any party by reason of your Posting User Material to conform to Ant Theater material guidelines, and transmit such documentation to Ant Theater for Ant Theater to verify, or do not submit that material.
22h. Ant Theater will remove all User Material if Ant Theater is properly notified that such User Material infringes on another person's I.P. rights. You acknowledge that Ant Theater does not guarantee any confidentiality with respect to any User Material.
23. Ownership.
You agree that Ant Theater owns and retains all rights to Ant Theater Services, Properties, and Content. You further agree that the Content you access and view as part of Ant Theater Services is owned or controlled by Ant Theater and Ant Theater's licensors. Ant Theater Services and the Content are protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws.
24. Your Responsibilities.
In order to keep Ant Theater Services safe and available for everyone to use, you and other users must use Ant Theater Services for lawful, non-commercial, and appropriate educational purposes only. You agree to observe Ant Theater Services, Content, and embedding restrictions detailed above, and further agree that you will not access the Ant Theater Website or use Ant Theater Services in a way that:
(a-) violates the rights of others, including patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, privacy, publicity, or other proprietary rights;
(b-) uses technology or other means to access, index, frame or link to Ant Theater Services (including the Content) that is not authorized by Ant Theater (including by removing, disabling, bypassing, or circumventing any content protection or access control mechanisms intended to prevent the unauthorized download, stream capture, linking, framing, reproduction, access to, or distribution of Ant Theater Services);
(c-) involves accessing Ant Theater Services (including the Content) through any automated means, including "robots," "spiders," or "offline readers" (other than by individually performed searches on publicly accessible search engines for the sole purpose of, and solely to the extent necessary for, creating publicly available search indices - but not caches or archives - of Ant Theater Services and excluding those search engines or indices that host, promote, or link primarily to infringing or unauthorized content);
(d-) introduces viruses or any other computer code, files, or programs that interrupt, destroy, or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment; damages, disables, overburdens, impairs, or gains unauthorized access to Ant Theater Services, including Ant Theater's servers, computer network, or user accounts;
(e-) removes, modifies, disables, blocks, obscures or otherwise impairs any advertising in connection with Ant Theater Services (including the Content);
(f-) uses Ant Theater Services to advertise or promote services that are not expressly approved in advance in writing by Ant Theater;
(g-) collects personally identifiable information in violation of Ant Theater's Privacy Policy; encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense or give rise to civil liability; violates these Terms or any guidelines or policies posted by Ant Theater;
(h-) interferes with any other party's use and enjoyment of Ant Theater Services; or
(i-) attempts to do any of the foregoing.
25. If Ant Theater determines in its sole discretion that you are violating any of these Terms, Ant Theater may (i) notify you, and (ii) use technical or legal measures to block or restrict your access or use of Ant Theater Services. In either case, you agree to immediately stop accessing or using in any way (or attempting to access or use) Ant Theater Services, and you agree not to circumvent, avoid, or bypass such restrictions, or otherwise restore or attempt to restore such access or use.
26. No Spam/Unsolicited Communications.
No one may use Ant Theater Services to harvest information about users for the purpose of sending, or to facilitate or encourage the sending of, unsolicited bulk or other communications. You understand that Ant Theater may take any technical remedies to prevent spam or unsolicited bulk or other communications from entering, utilizing, or remaining within our computer or communications networks.
If you Post or otherwise send spam, advertising, or other unsolicited communications of any kind by using Ant Theater Services, you acknowledge that you will have caused substantial harm to Ant Theater and that the amount of such harm would be extremely difficult to measure. As a reasonable estimation of such harm, you agree to pay Ant Theater $50 for each such unsolicited communication you send through Ant Theater Services.
27. By Posting User Material, you are not forfeiting any ownership rights in original user material to Ant Theater. After Posting your User Material, you continue to retain all of the same ownership rights you had prior to Posting. By Posting your User Material, you grant Ant Theater a limited license to use, display, reproduce, distribute, modify, delete from, add to, prepare derivative works of, publicly perform, and publish such Material through Ant Theater Services worldwide, including on or through any Property, in perpetuity, in any media formats and any media channels now known or hereinafter created.
28. This license to User Material you grant to Ant Theater is non-exclusive (meaning you are not prohibited by Ant Theater from licensing your User Material to anyone else in addition to Ant Theater), fully-paid, royalty-free (meaning that Ant Theater is not required to pay you for the use of your User Material), and sub-licensable (so that Ant Theater is able to use its affiliates, subcontractors, and other partners, such as internet content delivery networks, to provide Ant Theater Services).
29. By Posting your User Material, you also hereby grant each user of Ant Theater Services a non- exclusive, limited license to access your User Material, and to use, display, reproduce, distribute, and perform such User Material as permitted through the functionality of Ant Theater Services and under these Terms.
30. Third Party Posts.
30a. Despite these restrictions, please be aware that some material provided by users may be objectionable, unlawful, inaccurate, or inappropriate. To the extent accessing Ant Theater shows advertisements that carry offers of purchases of, or payment for, third party products or services, you agree that Ant Theater will not be liable to you for any claims arising out of or related to your purchase or use of such third party products or services.
30b. Ant Theater does not endorse any Member User Material, or Third Party Posts, and Member Material that is Posted does not reflect the opinions or policies of Ant Theater. Ant Theater reserve the right, but have no obligation, to monitor Material and to restrict or remove Material that Ant Theater determine, in our sole discretion, is inappropriate or for any other reason. In no event does Ant Theater assume any responsibility or liability whatsoever for any User Material, and you agree to waive any legal or equitable rights or remedies you may have against Ant Theater with respect to such User Material. Help us by notifying Ant Theater of any inappropriate User Material you find.
30c. To report a specific instance of inappropriate Material, please notify through the Community Page [[Delphi/Inappropriate Material Notice]].
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A THIRD PARTY is someone who is not You, and is not Ant Theater, yet may advertise on a web-site or e-ad for some a purpose or service. BY DEFINITION, WE AT ANT THEATER DO NOT CONTROL THE PRIVACY’ POLICIES OF ANY THIRD PARTIES, SO“CAVEAT WEBSTUR”. We don’t sell your personal information to third parties. If you receive unwanted third party offers via e-mail, please follow the unsubscribe instructions included therein.
IF ADVERTISERS ads appear with our (web)pages, they:
(1.) support our or our web host's operations through ad revenues
(2.) want to attract you as customers
(3.) think to take or make money from you
or (4.) want to enroll you in supporting a cause.
We, at Ant Theater, do not control them; we do not control you.
Many Third Parties wish to inform you of their promotional offers.
You are not obligated to opt-in to any offers when you participate.
If they offer Survey Questions & Special Offers
Survey Questions: Ant Theater asks no survey questions on-line.
Ant Theater itself neither collects nor retains any personal financial information on-line.
Ant Theater is not responsible for your interactions with advertisers.
Ant Theater recommends that you print and keep any receipts, order confirmations and correspondence proving that you completed any transaction.
You are responsible for reviewing your transactions and reporting any errors to other parties.
Ant Theater is not responsible for any transactions you enter into with any advertisers, or any products or services associated with any third party advertisers or resulting process providers. (Ant Theater cannot fulfill, cancel for you, refund, or act on any account you create with any Third Party.)
You should carefully read the requirements, terms and conditions, privacy policy, and billing information for each offer before you sign-up.
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30d. All Third Party Content, including, without limitation all offers, data, links, articles, search results, graphic or video messages and all information, text, software, music, sound, graphics or other materials made available or accessible (“Third Party Content"), whether publicly available or privately transmitted, is the sole responsibility of the third party which created such Third Party Content.
Ant Theater is not responsible for, does not endorse or control Third Party Content.
You agree to accept all risks associated with the use of any Content, including any reliance on the accuracy or completeness of such Content.
Content may be offensive, indecent or objectionable to some in your community. Under no circumstances will Ant Theater or its licensors be liable in any way for any Content, including, but not limited to, for any errors or omissions in any Content, or for loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content posted or transmitted. By accepting this Agreement, you state you understand, acknowledge and agree that you may be subject to various risks, including the exposure of data you have downloaded or have offered to share, and that you accept all such risk as solely your risk and responsibility.
30e. Carefully read all required terms and conditions, privacy policy, and billing information requests for each before you sign-up. You agree, that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of Ant Theater against a Third Party must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose, or be forever barred.
30f. Advertisers are ignorant of the status of your Application; Scholarship Awards are independent of any vendor.
30g. BY DEFINITION, WE AT ANT THEATER DO NOT CONTROL THE PRIVACY POLICIES OF ANY THIRD PARTIES: “CAVEAT WEBSTUR”
30h. Third Party Destinations.
If an Ant Theater website provide links or pointers to other websites or destinations, you should not infer or assume that Ant Theater operates, controls, or is otherwise connected with these other websites or destinations. When you click on a link within Ant Theater Services, Ant Theater will not warn you that you have left Ant Theater, and are subject to the terms and conditions (including privacy policies) of another website or destination. In some cases, it may be less obvious than others that you have left Ant Theater, and reached another website or destination. Please be careful to read the Terms and privacy policy of any other website or destination before you provide any personal or confidential information or engage in any transactions. You should not rely on these Ant Theater Terms to govern your use of another website or destination.
30i. Ant Theater is not responsible for the content or practices of any website or destination other than Ant Theater, even if it links to the Ant Theater Website and even if the website or destination is operated by a company affiliated or otherwise connected with Ant Theater.
30j. By using Ant Theater Services, you acknowledge and agree that Ant Theater is not responsible or liable to you for any content or other materials hosted and served from any website or destination other than the Ant Theater Website.
30k. Ant Theater takes no responsibility for advertisements or any third party material Posted on any of the Properties, nor does it take any responsibility for the products or services provided by advertisers. Any dealings you have with advertisers found while using Ant Theater Services are between you and the advertiser, and you agree that Ant Theater is not liable for any loss or claim that you may have against an advertiser.
30L. Ant Theater asks no survey questions; only demographic Application(s) /Submission(s) information as volunteered by you will be verified if you claim a grant award. Ant Theater itself neither collects nor retains any personal financial information. Ant Theater is not responsible for your advertiser interactions. Ant Theater recommends you print and keep any receipts, order confirmations and correspondence proving that you completed any transaction. You are responsible for reviewing your transactions and reporting any errors to Third Parties. Ant Theater is not responsible for any transactions you enter into with any advertisers, their Content, or any products and services associated with the advertisers or resulting process/product providers.
30m. Ant Theater cannot fulfill, cancel on your behalf, refund, or service any account you create with any advertiser.
You should carefully read all of their requirements, terms and conditions, privacy policy, and billing information requests for each offer before you sign-up.
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31. Downloads.
In order to participate in certain Ant Theater Services or access certain Content, you may be notified that it is necessary to download software or other materials or agree to additional terms and conditions. Unless otherwise provided by these additional terms and conditions, they are hereby incorporated into these Terms.
32. Suspension/Discontinuation.
(32a-) Ant Theater may change, suspend, or discontinue - temporarily or permanently - some or all of Ant Theater Services (including the Content and the devices through which Ant Theater Services are accessed), with respect to any or all users, at any time without notice. You acknowledge that Ant Theater may do so in Ant Theater's sole discretion.
(32b-) You agree Ant Theater will not be liable to you for any modification, suspension, or discontinuance of Ant Theater Services
(32c-) If Ant Theater terminates your account or suspends or discontinues your access to Ant Theater Services due to your violation of these Terms, you will not be eligible for any consideration.
33. Internet Access Charges.
You are responsible for any costs you incur to access the internet.
34. The amount and form of service, and the decision to provide it, are at Ant Theater's sole and absolute discretion, and the provision of service in one instance does not entitle anyone to service in the future under similar or different circumstances.
35. Customer Service.
If Ant Theater can be of help to you, please contact Ant Theater by visiting our Community web page at [[Delphi/AntTheaterOrg]]. It is our pleasure to serve you.
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36. Ant Theater Donation Methods
You can find the latest specific details of donating to Ant Theater by logging in on the Ant Theater website, as these become enabled.
37. Pledging as a Feature.
Some donors prefer to donate by pledging regular donations of support, either a charge or debit. By providing a credit card or other payment method accepted by PayPal (“Payment Method”) for your Ant Theater donation, you are expressly agreeing that PayPal is authorized to charge you monthly, and any applicable taxes in connection with your use of Ant Theater Payment Method. If you want to use a different Payment Method than the one you signed up, or if there is a change in your credit card validity or expiration date, you may edit your Payment Method information by logging in on the PayPal website and clicking on Account under your name.
38. Tax.
Your intent, as is ours, is that this scholarship grant award is to be used for tax-exempt educational support purposes. Sometimes life requires changes, and both school policies, and laws vary in their results. In such cases as where it might then apply, all school, federal, state, local and other tax liabilities arising from these Scholarships grant awards, are the sole responsibility of the Recipient. You are responsible for paying any and all taxes associated with your receipt of the award. Ant Theater will not remit any taxes on your behalf.
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39. ACCOUNTS AND REGISTRATION
VISITORS: Ant Theater may from time to time offer various features that require registration or the creation of an account with Ant Theater. If at any time you choose to register or create an account with us, the additional terms and conditions set forth below also will apply.
Accounts of MEMBERS, SUBMITTERS, and APPLICANTS for SCHOLARSHIP GRANTS are discussed above.
When Applying as a Team, it is required there be a single point of contact, the Producer-Sponsor. As a Producer-sponsor you are responsible for all uses by other members of your team. By allowing others to access your account, you agree to be responsible for ensuring that they comply with these Terms and you agree to be responsible for their activity using Ant Theater Services. Your Producer-Sponsor is responsible for safe-keeping all personal information, releases, and warrantees, unless and until your Application(s) /Submission(s) have been selected for a scholarship award. Then these documents must be verified by Ant Theater.
All registration information you are required to submit must be accurate and updated. (Please keep any password(s) confidential.) Because you are responsible for all use of your account, including unauthorized use by any third party, please be very careful to guard the security of your password. Please notify Ant Theater through customer support as soon as you know of, or suspect, any unauthorized access. Ant Theater reserve the right to immediately terminate or restrict use of Ant Theater Services or access to Content at any time, without notice or liability,
If Ant Theater determines in its sole discretion that you have breached these Terms, violated any law, rule, or regulation, engaged in other inappropriate conduct, or for any other business reason, Ant Theater, at its sole discretion, may terminate your participation. Termination of your participation does not terminate Ant Theater’s Intellectual Property (I.P.) rights.
Ant Theater also reserve the right to terminate your application or your use of Ant Theater Services or access to Content, for example, if such use places an undue burden on our networks or servers. Of course, Ant Theater would prefer to avoid such termination; therefore, Ant Theater may use technology to limit activities, such as the number of calls to Ant Theater servers being made or the volume of User Material being Posted, and you agree to respect these limitations and not take any steps to circumvent, avoid, or bypass them. ===============================================
40. SUBMISSIONS of Derivative Work may be made by donation to Ant Theater in conformance with terms for: Scholarship Grant Applications, Portfolio Publications, or as part of Crowd-Funding efforts. NO DONATION OR PURCHASE IS REQUIRED TO SUBMIT FOR PUBLICATION. THERE IS NO WAY TO CANCEL A RECEIVED SUBMISSION. Each arrival of a change in a fixed rendering is considered, and must qualify as, a separate submission. This applies to any Application(s) /Submission(s) also.
(Ant Theater encourages a prior stage working copy to any submission to accompany any Application(s) /Submission(s), as, if present , it may be used for tie-breaking purposes by judges.)
41. Application and Submission Period
Scholarship Application funded ticket numbers are free as available to Members, and available numbers will be posted beginning on May 1st, and thereafter as funded, until the following March 30th. A Member need only claim a free ticket number in order to submit for a Scholarship Application, to insure there is funding. Optional demographic questions are included in Application(s) /Submission(s) forms; no other such information will be requested.
Accordingly all Applications/Submissions materials must be received in specified Fixed Digital DVD Form from May 1st, year A, until on or before the following December 31st, Year A,(NOT April 25th,WorkLoad!! before JUNE!!) year B, each with an Affidavit of Eligibility/Liability Release and Publicity Release.
Scholarship Awards are announced in phases from the following June, year B, through March, year C.
A full cycle: May Year A to April Year B: Applications & Submissions; June Year B through March Year C: Scholarship Grant Awards & Recognitions given out.
Each Submitter will be required to complete, execute and return an Affidavit of Eligibility/ Liability Release, to complete the qualification process. These forms are provided in the Submitter's Packet, and must accompany a Portfolio Submission.
Failure to return Release Forms with any Application(s) /Submission(s) may result in disqualification with alternate Application(s) /Submission(s) selected in accordance with these Terms.
For a scholarship Application, all additional necessary forms are warrantied by a Producer- Sponsor to have been accurately completed before materials are submitted, and are to be held in secure confidence by the Producer-Sponsor until requested for verification by Ant Theater in order to qualify for a Scholarship Award.
42. Lost or Corrupted Applications and/or Submissions.
Ant Theater Entities, and their affiliated and subsidiary companies and advertising and promotion agencies, assume no liability and are not responsible for, and you hereby forever waive any rights to any claim in connection with, lost, late, incomplete, corrupted, stolen, misdirected, illegible or postage due Application(s) /Submission(s)s or other mail, if applicable; or any selection or announcement of awards, or their availability or distribution,;or for any computer, telephone, cable, network, satellite, electronic or Internet hardware or software malfunctions, unauthorized human intervention, or the incorrect or inaccurate capture of Application or other information, or the failure to capture any such information.
Ant Theater Entities, and their affiliated and subsidiary agents, advertising and promotion agencies, are not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by registration information submitted by end users (Applicants, Submitters, Members, or Others), or tampering, hacking, or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in Ant Theater program or Processes, and assume no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to Ant Theater's data.
43. Damaged Property.
Ant Theater Entities, and their affiliated and subsidiary agents and advertising and promotion agencies, assume no liability and are not responsible for, and you hereby forever waive any rights to any claim in connection with, injury or damage to any Applicants or to any other person's computer or property related to or resulting from participating in Ant Theater, or downloading materials from Ant Theater.
44. Ant Theater Errors.
Ant Theater Entities, and their affiliated and subsidiary agents, and advertising and promotion agencies, assume no liability and are not responsible for, and you hereby forever waive any rights to any claim in connection with, errors and/or ambiguity: in the Scholarships Applications, Portfolio compilations, in any related advertising or promotions of Ant Theater Scholarships and/ or Crowd-funding project in these Terms. In the event of any ambiguity(s) or error(s) in these Terms, Ant Theater reserves the right to modify these Terms for clarification purposes or to correct any such ambiguity or error(s) without materially affecting the terms and conditions of the Scholarships Processes. ===============================================
45. ADHERENCE
You understand and agree that you are personally responsible for your behavior IN THE Derivative work, FOR SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS, SUBMISSIONS, AND/OR ANY OTHER ANT THEATER PARTICIPATION..
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Ant Theater, its subsidiaries, affiliates, distributors, licensors, partners, service providers, advertisers, and each of their respective officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against all claims, losses, expenses, damages, costs (including but not limited to direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, liquidated, and/or exemplary damages), and attorneys' fees, resulting from or arising out of your use, misuse or inability to use the website or the Content, or any violation by you of these Terms & Conditions. !
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46. APPLICANTS/SUBMITTERS: All matters qualifying submitters are also required to qualify Applicants.
If a team effort, to enter any Application(s) /Submission(s), a Producer-Sponsor must register with Ant Theater as the responsible contact person for the creative effort that is required. Producer-Sponsors are required to present a different registration for each Application/Submission.
47. Valid Information
(a) You must provide accurate, current, complete, and true information, as and when required, about yourself, and/or your team.
(b) If you give any information that relates or belongs to another person without their specific written consent in a release document presented to Ant Theater, or if Ant Theater has reasonable grounds to suspect that any information you provided relates or belongs to another person, and/or if is true or untrue, accurate or inaccurate, current or not current, or complete or incomplete, your Application(s) /Submission(s) may be placed on hold or disqualified, and screen credit withheld.
48. You agree to use these opportunities only for lawful purposes.
49. You agree not to take any action that might compromise the security of the scholarships, render Ant Theater content inaccessible to others, or otherwise cause damage to Ant Theater, the scholarship program, its users, or its Content, Submitters, Application(s) /Submission(s), Members, Visitors to the website, or other persons.
50. You agree not to use the content in any manner that might interfere with the rights of Ant Theater entities, or any third party.
51. ALL SUBMITTERS: A Submitter may be a performer, renderer, programmer, embedder, industry trade member, or supporting team member, or other contributing arts producer of a Derivative Work. A Submitter may be the natural person who competently executed the derivative work, in whole or in part, whether as an individual or participating in another organization, or the natural person who competently authorized the organization (e.g., business, educational, institution, club, etc.) that is responsible for the particular Application(s) /Submission(s).
For this sole purpose, you have license to make a single back-up copy, for archival purposes only. You have license to print scenes or passages only as needed in order to generate and fix in media your derivative work, performance(s) submitted as derivative work, and to retain archival copy of the same. You submit derivative work at your own risk.
You may not mirror or frame the home page or any other pages of the website on any other web page and may not connect links, including "deep links" to any submission.
You may not use a robot, scraper or other automated means of accessing the website(s).
52. APPLICANTS: Applicants must adhere to documentation requirements for Submitters.
An Applicant must also be a natural person who competently executed the derivative work, in whole or in part, whether as an individual or participating in a team of individuals, that is responsible for the particular Application(s) /Submission(s). A corporation or business may not apply for a scholarship grant, only a natural, competent, adult person.
A team must have a single point of contact, a Producer-Sponsor, who will undertake the responsibility to independently collect, securely safeguard, all PII required, and only produce PII when, and as, required by the Ant Theater process. All Producer-Sponsor Warrantied information will be verified before Scholarship Applications are granted..
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53. WHAT YOU ARE EXPECTED TO DO IF YOU ARE SELECTED FOR A SCHOLARSHIP AWARD:
Affidavit of Eligibility/Liability Release and Publicity Release.
Each Award Winner will be required to complete, execute and return an Affidavit of Eligibility/ Liability Release, and where lawful, a Publicity Release (collectively, the "Release Forms") within five (5) days of notification of Award, to complete the qualification process. These forms were provided in the Application Packet. These forms were warranted by You or your team’s Producer-Sponsor to have been correctly and fully completed before Application materials were submitted, and so may be Submitted by You or Your Team’s Producer-Sponsor upon request.
Failure to return Release Forms in a timely manner, or if an Award notification or the Award is returned as non-deliverable, or if an Awardee is found not to be eligible or not in compliance with the Terms, may result in disqualification with an alternate Award Winner selected in accordance with the Terms.
54. Publicity Release Terms.
Except where prohibited by law, participation by an Application for a Scholarship or a Submission for Selection for Compilation and Publication is acceptance of, consent to, and constitutes permission for, the Ant Theater SFC to use an Applicant's /Submitter’s name, photograph, likeness, statements, opinions, biographical information, voice as Submitted, or recorded in interview, and county and state of residence worldwide and in all forms of media, in perpetuity, absent any further approval, payment or compensation.
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55. Scholarship Award Opportunity Distribution Notification.
The Application/Submissions mapped on the matrix will be posted on the web site, updated at least monthly
Scholarship availability depends on the funding for the number of eligible Applicants received during the Scholarship Awards Cycle.
Ant Theater judges score the merits of received Application(s) /Submission(s)s by rubrics who will receive the scholarship grants.
These decisions are communicated confidentially to Ant Theater Administration, who then post to the potential recipients, to obtain the documents for verification of the representations in the Applications.
After the Awards have been tentatively approved, Ant Theater will post a request asking you(r team) to verify required facts.
Notification Posts by Member I D will be made on the website.
Each Sponsor-Producer of a team is notified to produce the original documents releases and warrantees for each of their team members.
Applicants will have been asked to have filled out required personal information such as their legal name, email address, physical address, date of birth and phone number in order to confirm eligibility and compliance with these Terms. Forms will now be expected at Ant Theater by mail.
56. Beginning in June 2015, Scholarship Awards recipients will be announced. If any selected potential Recipient(s) fail to respond on-line after five (5) business days from the first notification,
If it is a Producer-Sponsor, a second Designated Team member will be notified on the website.
If it is an individual sole-submitting Applicant who fails to respond within five days, the release form on file will be consulted for an e-mail or contact number, and a direct notice attempted in addition.
One more attempt will be made a week later.
Failing contact for these past two weeks, this Application will be deferred to the next cycle, and the next best scoring recipient will be announced.
Recognitions will still be listed, as decided by the judges.
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57. Award Fulfillment and Delivery
Awards will not be made until Awardee Status is determined.
Unlike the demographic survey questions, completed Ant Theater Scholarship legal papers is required to qualify for an award.
To qualify for the award offered by The Ant Theater S F C, you must have successfully completed all releases and warrantees in the Sponsor-Producers Application packet.
Ant Theater are not liable for any communication failures.
Once you receive and accept a Scholarship award, you will only be eligible to receive again in the next years' cycle for future awards.
Ant Theater reserves the right to send a check for the award.
The amount of the check shall be determined by Ant Theater guidelines, and you may receive any higher Tier endowment awards pursuant to the endowment or Name Award terms without further action on your part.
By cashing or depositing the Awards check, you agree that you have been made whole and relinquish your rights to pursue any and all claims against Ant Theater, its successors, assigns, affiliates, advertisers, and employees.
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58. Ant Theater's announced decisions are final and binding in all respects.
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59. WHAT YOU MAY DO TO SUBMIT OR APPLY FOR A SCHOLARSHIP:
By using information on the Ant Theater S. F. C.'s web site, accessing the domain "www.anttheater.org", you hereby accept and agree to these Terms of ANT THEATER, and/or Submitting derivative work for possible selection, publication, and distribution, and that the decisions of the Administrator(s) in connection with these Application(s) /Submission(s)s are final. derivative work
You also acknowledge that these processes provide valuable services to those engaged in theater and media presentation who are genuinely interested in trying to present sample material, and that you are accessing the Ant Theater Scholarship Website Pages solely for that purpose.
You may use Ant Theater's licensed Fully Restored Comedy and Mystery of Hamlet Content solely for your personal use.
You may print and store portions that you select for derivative work use.
No right, title or interest in any downloaded Content or materials is transferred to you as a result of any such downloading.
Ant Theater reserves complete title and full intellectual property rights in any Content you download from Ant Theater websites or the fully restored Hamlet: A Prince of a Fellow, or any derivative work representations presented by Ant Theater.
60. AND MAY NOT DO:
You may not modify, reformat, copy, reproduce, display, distribute, repost, transmit, publish, license, sell, rent, transfer, or create derivative works from any Content or information obtained from the website(s), except as expressly permitted by these Terms & Conditions.
You may not mirror or frame the home page or any other pages of the website on any other website or web page and may not connect links, including "deep links" to the website.
All rights are reserved, including copyrights.
You may not use a robot, scraper or other automated means of accessing the website(s).
61. Improper Conduct.
Ant Theater, in its sole discretion, may disqualify any Applicant or Submitter from participation in any or all portions of Ant Theater efforts, and refuse to award a grant, if an Applicant or Submitter engages in any conduct that Ant Theater Administrator(s) deems to be improper, unfair, or otherwise adverse, to the operation of Ant Theater, or detrimental to other Applicants of the Scholarships.
Such improper conduct includes, without limitation, falsifying personal information required during Applicant registration or Grant claim, violating any term or condition stated herein, (accumulating Applications or voting through methods such as automated computer scripts or any other programming techniques), allowing others to use any Applicant's personal information, for any unapproved purpose, or intentionally trying to defraud, reverse engineer, disassemble or otherwise tamper with any computer programs used in connection with these Scholarships.
62. WHAT MAY GET YOUR AWARD PUT ON HOLD OR DISQUALIFIED:
Grounds for Hold and/or Disqualification need not be disclosed, include:
Your Application/Submission may be placed on hold and/or disqualified for one or more of the following reasons:
-failing to meet the eligibility requirements;
-giving information that relates or belongs to another person without their valid written consent,
-providing information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current, incomplete, or invalid to Ant Theater, or a Producer-sponsor;
-selling or purchasing links to the Scholarship website;
-if we are notified you are using another person's credit card to donate: if another person is donating, that person must do so himself or herself;
-failing to meet the required timeframes for completing Applications for awards or providing requested information;
-failing to provide information confirming your identity, if required;
-aiding, promoting or participating in any activity that could be deemed unlawful or harmful to the reputation of Ant Theater, or the purposes of the Ant Theater Scholarships; and/or Resulting Processes/Products
-violating these Terms & Conditions; and/or
-any other reason or a combination of reasons at the sole discretion of the Ant Theater Board.
Applicants agree that Ant Theater may void any part of a Grant that Applicant may have been Awarded and/or require the return of any part of a Grant that Applicant may have won as a result of such improper conduct. If, after you have received a grant award, Ant Theater determine that you violated these Terms & Conditions, you have agreed to return the award at your expense. Additionally, Ant Theater reserves its right to pursue legal action against you. You, as Applicant, further acknowledge that any forfeiture of a Grant and/or return of a Grant shall in no way prevent Ant Theater from pursuing other avenues of recourse, such as criminal or civil proceedings in connection with such conduct.
63. FAIR WARNING:
ANY ATTEMPT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE OR UNDERCUT ANY LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THIS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION AND/OR PROCESSES OR PROGRAMS MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND, SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, EACH OF THE INVOLVED SUPPORT ENTITIES RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES OR OTHER REMEDIES FROM ANY SUCH PERSON(S) RESPONSIBLE FOR SUCH ATTEMPT TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
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64. APPLICATION PROCESS TO AWARDS:
Free pre-funded Application ticket numbers are posted beginning May 1. Any Member of a month or more may claim a number by posting the claim to that number first in the website messages.
Validated, that claimed number can Authorize an Individual or a Producer-Sponsor’s Team. Forms are provided for Download for Applicants, and Portfolio Submitters.
Applications and Submissions may be made at any time thereafter, prior to the deadline date of December 31st.
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65.Team Considerations
To Apply for Scholarships, a Producer-Sponsor must register the claimed Application ticket number, and, when validated, has one month to gather all Team ’s Member I D’s and submit them. to Ant Theater as the responsible contact person for the team effort that is sponsored.
The limit is one team Application submission per Application ticket number. Producer-Sponsors are required to present a new Application submission packet for each Application submission.
Awards are given as scholarship grants to individual Team members divided on a per capita basis to accepting team members.
We are reminded that only one scholarship can be awarded to any one team members per year. In other words, if I am on two Teams, and both receive Awards, I have to accept or decline a share of only one Award, state my choice, and the per capita division of the Award to each of the rest of the Team is adjusted accordingly.
Warranted information will be verified before awards are given out.
Only one award is allowed per each team member per year. Any awards that share the same name, email address, mailing or shipping address, telephone number, credit card, or IP address will be considered the same team Member for this purpose. By this rule multiple awards will be placed on hold or disqualified until matters are clarified.
One Applicant might participate in more than one winning team, yet one Applicant is only eligible to receive only one award. Each team members enjoys the right to choose eligibility individually to receive awards once unique identities are verified.
Even on a Team, you are responsible for maintaining the security of your own Member I D identity as a Scholarship Applicant and/or Submitter. Ant Theater entities are not liable for any losses incurred through the access to your information by a third party. ===============================================
66. ADJUSTMENTS of Status/ Screen Credit Change:
There is no way to cancel any Submission.
If you no longer wish to remain a part of a Team’s Application(s) /Submission(s), or wish to withdraw from a Scholarship Application, you should state your request to change in writing to:
Ant Theater
Attention: Status Change
P O Box 2256
Pasadena, CA 91102
If you wish to change your Screen Credit, please follow the instructions under CHANGE SCREEN CREDIT (above).
As policy, the renderer of the derivative work submission will be credited as the same renderer first directed the credit to be listed on Submission
If a renderer later wishes to change the credit listing to conform to a change in the renderer's personal or professional identification, Ant Theater will try to reasonably accommodate the change without any guarantee to effect the change. Such changes may be made only in compilations or listings not already in fixed media copies.
67. RETURNS
If you wish to decline or return or refuse a Scholarship Award, you may do so, and by so doing become eligible for an alternate Scholarship Award participation, if you do so within two weeks of the Announcement of the Award to be returned not transacted or in full.
68. Identity Dispute(s):
In the event of a dispute as to the identity of any Submitter(s), or Applicant(s), if based on an address or other information provided, status will be decided by Ant Theater's verification, unless prior copyright information is provided.
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69. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, TRADE, BRAND, and SERVICE MARKS
Ant Theater, Ant Theater logo, www.Ant Theater.org, and other Ant Theater marks, graphics, logos, scripts, and sounds are properties of Ant Theater. None of Ant Theater marks may be copied, downloaded, or otherwise exploited, except as licensed.
The Ant Theater SFC Scholarship Grant Awards, processes, resulting products, and all information and/or content that can be seen, heard or otherwise experienced from Ant Theater, including without limitation all offers, reports, text, video, graphics, audio, and other materials (collectively, the "Content") are protected by U.S. and international copyright, trademark and other laws, and belong to Ant Theater or to third parties.
You are prohibited from using any of the marks or logos appearing throughout without express written consent from the trademark owner, except as permitted by applicable law.
70. UNSOLICITED SUBMISSIONS
It is Ant Theater's policy not to accept any unsolicited submissions, including scripts, story lines, articles, fan fiction, characters, drawings, information, suggestions, ideas, or concepts. Ant Theater's policy is to delete or dispose of any such submission without reading it. Only donations of Derivative Works from the Standard Source Text are solicited. Therefore, any similarity between an unsolicited submission and any elements in any Ant Theater creative work, including a film, series, story, title, or concept, would be purely coincidental.
- DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES, LIMITATION OF LIABILITY, AND INDEMNITY.
71. ANT THEATER S. F. C. DOES OUR REASONABLE BEST TO PROVIDE ANT THEATER SERVICES; EACH WEBSITE USER, VISITOR, MEMBER, APPLICANT, AND/OR SUBMITTER, [“YOU”] AGREE ANY DONATION TO, OR ACCESS OR USE OF ANT THEATER SERVICES IS WHOLLY AT YOUR OWN RISK.
72. ALL ANT THEATER CONTACTS AND SERVICES, INCLUDING ACCESS TO ANT THEATER WEBSITES, SCHOLARSHIP GRANT AWARDS, APPLICATIONS, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SUBJECT TO LICENSE, OR ANY OTHER CONTENT, INCLUDING PUBLICATIONS, NEWS LETTERS, AND ANY OTHER MATERIALS CONTAINED ON OR PROVIDED THROUGH ANY PRODUCTS, OR PRODUCTS THEMSELVES, ARE ALL PROVIDED "AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.
73. ANT THEATER EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, CUSTOM, TRADE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, WITH REGARD TO THE CONTENT AND SERVICES PROVIDED BY ANT THEATER AND RESULTING PRODUCTS.
74. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ANT THEATER SERVICES AND CONTENT ARE PROVIDED WITHOUT GUARANTEES/WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. THEY ARE ACCESSED, AND USED, WHOLY AT YOUR RISK. ONLY ACTIVITIES IN LAWFUL SUPPORT OF ANT THEATER SCHOLARSHIPS, TAX EXEMPT SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANT AWARDS ARE OFFERED OR INTENDED.
75. ANT THEATER DISCLAIMS EVERY POSSIBLE LIABILITY TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ALL SERVICES, TO SUPPORT SCHOLARSHIPS, AND AS ANT THEATER MAY RELY ON VOLUNTARY DONATIONS TO FUND ANT THEATER SCHOLARSHIP GRANT AWARDS, NO INDIVIDUAL’S OUTCOMES OF INTERACTIONS IS PRESUMED, ASSURED, ARRANGED, WARRANTIED, OR IMPLIED.
76. YOU AGREE TO ASSUME TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY AND RISK FOR: YOUR ACCESS OR USE OF ANT THEATER , ITS WEBSITES, DOWNLOADS, APPLICATIONS OPPORTUNITIES, AND PROCESSES; COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH USE, APPLICATIONS, OR SUBMISSIONS, AND CONTENT; AND FOR EVALUATING THE ACCURACY, FITNESS, COMPLETENESS AND USEFULNESS OF ALL CONTENT. ANT THEATER MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, REPRESENTATIONS OR ENDORSEMENTS WHATSOEVER WITH RESPECT TO ANY INDIVIDUAL’S ACCESS OR USE OF THE SCHOLARSHIPS PROCESS OR CONTENT OR RESULTING PRODUCTS.
77. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, ANT THEATER DOES NOT MAKE ANY WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TRADE, CUSTOM, TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, COMPLETENESS, AVAILABILITY, SECURITY, COMPATIBILITY, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT; OR THAT ANT THEATER SERVICES, FUNCTIONS, AND RESULTING PRODUCTS WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, FREE OF VIRUSES AND OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS, TIMELY, SECURE, ACCURATE, ERROR FREE, OR RELIABLE, OR THAT DEFECTS IN THE WEBSITE OR OTHER ANT THEATER FUNCTIONS, PROCESSES OR RESULTING PRODUCTS WILL BE CORRECTED. ANT THEATER DOES NOT WARRANT THE QUALITY, ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE CONTENT, OR THAT ANY ERRORS IN THE CONTENT WILL BE CORRECTED. SCHOLARSHIP GRANT AWARDS APPLICATIONS, DOCUMENT TEMPLATES, RESULTING PRODUCTS, AND WEB PAGE CONTENT, ARE PROVIDED "WITH ALL FAULTS," ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS.
78. EACH WEBSITE VISITOR, MEMBER, APPLICANT, AND/OR SUBMITTER, TO ANT THEATER SCHOLARSHIPS, INCLUDING ANY RECEIVER OF A SCHOLARSHIP AWARD GRANT, HEREBY RELEASES AND AGREES TO HOLD HARMLESS ANT THEATER SCHOLARSHIP F.C., [ITS AFFILIATES, SUBSIDIARIES, ADVERTISING AND PROMOTION AGENCIES AND THEIR RESPECTIVE DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, VOLUNTEERS, REPRESENTATIVES AND AGENTS] FROM ANY AND ALL LIABILITY FOR ANY INJURIES, LOSS OR DAMAGE OF ANY KIND TO ANY PERSON, INCLUDING DEATH, AND PROPERTY DAMAGE, ARISING IN WHOLE OR IN PART, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, FROM ACCEPTANCE OF, ACCESS, DONATION TO, POSSESSION OF, USE OR MISUSE OF ANT THEATER SERVICES OR ITS APPLICATION PACKET, PUBLISHED DVD'S, REPRODUCTIONS OF ART, OR GRANTS, AND/OR PARTICIPATION IN THIS ANT THEATER SCHOLARSHIPS (OR PROCESSES) AND/OR PARTICIPATION IN ANY ACTIVITY RELATED TO THESE SCHOLARSHIPS (AND RESULTING PRODUCTS).
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79. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE ANT THEATER SCHOLARSHIPS FOUNDATION CORP., AND ANY ENTITIES, OR ITS AFFILIATES, SUCCESSORS, AND ASSIGNS, SUBSIDIARIES, DONORS, AND RELATED COMPANIES, THEIR ADVERTISING OR PROMOTION AGENCIES, OR THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, REPRESENTATIVES AND AGENTS, AND SUPPLIERS (INCLUDING DISTRIBUTORS AND CONTENT LICENSORS) OR PARTNERS OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING SERVICE PROVIDERS, AND ADVERTISERS, (COLLECTIVELY, THE "ANT THEATER PARTIES"),
BE RESPONSIBLE OR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, LIQUIDATIVE LOSSES OR EXEMPLARY OR OTHER DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY LOSS OR LOSS OF PROFITS BY OTHERS, ARISING OUT OF ACCESS TO, OR IN ANY WAY RELATED TO THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE, OR ANY CLAIM ATTRIBUTABLE TO ERRORS, OMISSIONS OR OTHER INACCURACIES OF, OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS, COMMUNICATIONS, OR DATA SUBMISSIONS TO, ANT THEATER SERVICES (INCLUDING ANY INFORMATION, CONTENT, PRODUCTS, OR SERVICES ADVERTISED IN, OBTAINED ON, OR PROVIDED THROUGH ANT THEATER ), INCLUDING PARTICIPATION IN ANT THEATER SCHOLARSHIPS (OR PROCESSES) OR ANY OTHER CONTENT, THESE TERMS & CONDITIONS, OR SERVICES PROVIDED BY ANT THEATER ENTITIES, OR PARTIES, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, OR THE DOWNLOADING FROM AND/OR PRINTING OF MATERIAL DOWNLOADED FROM THE ANT THEATER S. F. C. WEBSITES OR DVD’S, OR ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO ANT THEATER , THE WEBSITE CONTENT, THESE TERMS & CONDITIONS, THE PRIVACY POLICY OR THE SERVICES PROVIDED BY ANT THEATER ENTITIES, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, OR STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON ANT THEATER ENTITIES OR WEBSITES; WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHER THEORY, EVEN IF ANT THEATER PARTIES HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGES.
80. IN PARTICULAR, DONORS AND ADVERTISERS PERFORM AT THEIR OWN RISK, AND ARE RESPONSIBLE AS THIRD PARTIES FOR ANY INTERACTIONS THEY PROMOTE OR DEVELOP WITH ANY OTHER PARTIES AS A RESULT OF ANY ANT THEATER SERVICE MEDIATED ENCOUNTERS. ANT THEATER MAKES NO WARRANTEE CONCERNING ANY THIRD PARTY INTERACTIONS OR STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON ANT THEATER ENTITIES OR WEBSITES.
81. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANT THEATER , THE CONTENT, THE TERMS & CONDITIONS, THE PRIVACY POLICY, OR THE SERVICES PROVIDED BY ANT THEATER ENTITIES, OR PARTIES, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY WITH RESPECT TO ANT THEATER IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THE CONTENT.
82. CERTAIN LAWS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES. IF THESE LAWS APPLY TO YOU, SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE DISCLAIMERS, EXCLUSIONS, OR LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE ANT THEATER S F C WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE ARISING EITHER DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY FROM ANY USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE NON-PROFIT SCHOLARSHIP PROCESSES, CONTENT, RESULTING PRODUCTS, OR OTHER CONTENT. SOME JURISDICTIONS MAY NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. CHECK YOUR LOCAL LAWS FOR ANY RESTRICTIONS OR LIMITATIONS REGARDING THESE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS.
83. EVEN THEN, IN NO EVENT SHALL OUR TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL DAMAGES, LOSSES AND CAUSES OF ACTION WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE) OR OTHERWISE EXCEED THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU TO ANT THEATER , IF ANY, FOR ACCESSING OR PARTICIPATING IN ANY ACTIVITY RELATED TO USE OF ANT THEATER SERVICE, OR $50 (WHICHEVER IS LESS).
84. YOU AGREE THAT ANT THEATER SCHOLARSHIPS F. C. ENTITIES, AGENTS, AFFILIATED AND SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES AND ADVERTISING AND PROMOTION AGENCIES, ASSUME NO LIABILITY AND ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR, AND YOU, APPLICANT, SUBMITTER, MEMBER, OR VISITOR HEREBY FOREVER WAIVE ANY RIGHTS TO ANY CLAIM AGAINST ANT THEATER IN CONNECTION WITH, ANT THEATER PROCESSES FOR ANY SELECTION OR ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE SCHOLARSHIP GRANT AWARDS, THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE GRANTS OR RESULTING PRODUCTS, YOUR ACCEPTANCE POSSESSION AND/OR USE/MISUSE OF ANY PART OF THE GRANT, ITS PROCESSES AND/OR COMPILATIONS, PUBLICATIONS, DVD’S, OR OTHER RESULTING PRODUCTS, OR YOUR INTERACTIONS WITH ANY THIRD PARTY, AND/OR ANY INJURY OR DAMAGE TO ANY APPLICANT'S, SUBMITTER’S, MEMBER’S, VISITOR’S, OR THIRD PERSON’S, PROPERTY RELATED TO OR RESULTING FROM ANY PART OF THE ANT THEATER SCHOLARSHIP GRANT AWARD, ITS PROCESSES, COMPILATIONS, ART WORK, COMMUNICATIONS, NEWSLETTERS, DVD’S, OR ANY PART OF THESE SCHOLARSHIPS, SERVICES, OR OTHER ACTIVITIES (OR RESULTING PRODUCTS).
85. YOU AGREE TO DEFEND, INDEMNIFY, AND HOLD HARMLESS ANT THEATER AND ALL ANT THEATER PARTIES FROM AND AGAINST ANY AND ALL LIABILITIES, CLAIMS, DAMAGES, EXPENSES (INCLUDING REASONABLE ATTORNEYS' FEES AND COSTS), AND ALL OTHER LOSSES ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY RELATED TO ANY MATTER RELATING TO ANT THEATER , THE CONTENT, THESE TERMS & CONDITIONS, THE PRIVACY POLICY OR THE SERVICES PROVIDED BY ANT THEATER ENTITIES, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
86. ANT THEATER ALSO RESERVES THE RIGHT, AT ANT THEATER ’S OWN DISCRETION, TO EMPLOY SEPARATE COUNSEL AND ASSUME THE EXCLUSIVE DEFENSE AND CONTROL OF ANY ANT THEATER MATTER OTHERWISE SUBJECT TO INDEMNIFICATION BY YOU.
87. Copyright infringements
Hamlet was one of the First Works to receive Crown Protection for parts of its content. While that protection long ago expired on the fragments that were then registered, and those that survived four episodes of censorship, the work of the Full Restoration of the Comedy and Mystery of Hamlet IS protected by current copyright. Those rendering, embedding, and/or performing derivative work for Scholarship Application and/or for submissions are granted a limited license exclusively for that sole purpose for a period of one year, defined as April 26th to April 25th. Ant Theater will respond expeditiously to claims of intellectual property infringement.
88. Ant Theater will promptly process and investigate notices of alleged infringement and will take appropriate actions under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") and other applicable intellectual property laws. Ant Theater, as an institution, expects its staff and affiliates to comply with U.S. copyright laws.
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89. NOTICE AND PROCEDURE FOR CLAIMS OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
If you know any Content being infringed, as by a Member Post, Submitter or Applicant, through Ant Theater, infringes your copyright, you should notify Ant Theater of your infringement claim in accordance with the procedure below.
Ant Theater will process each notice of alleged infringement that Ant Theater receives and take appropriate action in accordance with applicable intellectual property laws. If you are a copyright owner, or are authorized to act on behalf of one, or authorized to act under any exclusive right under copyright, please report the alleged copyright infringements taking place on or through the Website by completing the following DMCA Notice of Alleged Infringement and delivering it to Ant Theater’s Designated Copyright Agent by the U.S. Mail at:
Attention: Copyright Takedown Agent
Ant Theater
POBox 2256
Pasadena, CA 9110
Notification must be in writing and contain the following information:
(i-) (a-) your electronic or physical signature as the living person authorized to act on behalf of the owner,
(b-) who must also be identified if other than you, of an exclusive copyright interest;
(ii-) (c-) a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed,
(d-) citing the copyrighted work (author/creator, title/description, copyright date,
(e-) with a Statement of copyright ownership, and
(f-) a copy of exact evidence of copyright registration;
(iii-) (g-) a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on Ant Theater that is reasonably sufficient to enable Ant Theater to specifically identify and locate the material, and
(h-) the specifics of exactly which of the cited material is the subject of copyright violation, including
(j-) the URL (the Web address),
(k-) the date, time, and time zone in which you observed the Web site,
(m-) identify any reference or link, to the material or activity that you claim to be infringing,
(n-) that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled,
(o-) including at a minimum, if applicable, the URL of the link shown on the Website where such reference or link may be found;
(iv-) (p-) how Ant Theater can contact you, the complainant or person designated to act on his/ her behalf, including a valid postal address, a telephone number, and, if available, e-mail address;
(v-) (q-) a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
(vi-) (r-) a statement by you that the above information in your notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you (as complainant) are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner or the owner of an exclusive right in the material, including both of the following statements within the Notice before you sign:
"I hereby state that I have a good faith belief that the disputed use of the copyrighted material or reference or link to such material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law (e.g., as a fair use)."
AND: "I hereby state that the information in this Notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that I am the owner, or authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of the copyright or of an exclusive right under the copyright that is allegedly infringed."
(vii-) (s-) Sign your full legal name as your physical signature.
Note: There are legal and financial consequences for any fraudulent and/or bad faith notices claiming copyright violations, or for copyright violations as or within Application(s) /Submission(s)s made. Before submitting a notice, be sure that you are the actual rights holder of the content, and understand the repercussions of submitting a false claim.
To report alleged copyright infringements on Ant Theater Web sites, please contact Ant Theater's designated DMCA agent by Mailing this Notice, with all the information above, completed, to: !
Ant Theater S F C
Attention: Copyright Concerns
P. O. Box 2256
Pasadena, CA 91102 U.S.A.
90. Upon receipt of the Notice as described, if Ant Theater determines that U.S. copyright laws have in fact been violated, Ant Theater will take whatever action, in its sole discretion, it deems appropriate, including removal of the challenged material from the Website, and/or from the next edition of compilations, and proven to be infringing material will be permanently removed thereafter.
Ant Theater reserves the right to remove or limit access to material if it is alleged that U.S. copyright laws have been violated.
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91. ARBITRATION OF CLAIMS
PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY. IT AFFECTS YOUR RIGHTS.
Ant Theater expects to resolve most issues you may have with Ant Theater. In the unlikely event Ant Theater does not, Ant Theater specify now what each of us should expect in order to avoid any confusion later. You and Ant Theater agree to the following resolution process:
Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to these Terms and/or this Scholarships shall be settled by binding arbitration in accordance with the commercial arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association.
You agree any claim that you might have against Ant Theater regarding these Terms, Ant Theater Services, or Properties, must be resolved through binding arbitration before the American Arbitration Association using its Commercial Arbitration Rules. Ant Theater want to address any issues you might have promptly. To help us do that, you agree to begin any arbitration within one year after your claim arose; otherwise, your claim is waived.
Any such controversy or claim shall be arbitrated on an individual basis, and shall not be consolidated in any arbitration with any claim or controversy of any other party.
Ant Theater prefer to resolve our issues with you directly, you agree to arbitrate with Ant Theater only as an individual, not as a representative or member of a class. Your claims may not be joined with any other claims and there shall be no authority for any dispute to be arbitrated on a class-action basis or brought by a purported class representative.
- Arbitration hearings will be held in Los Angeles County, California.
- The arbitrator's decision will be binding and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction.
- Arbitration shall be conducted in the State of California, in Los Angeles County, in particular in the City of Pasadena if conveniently practicable, and judgment on the arbitration award may be entered into any court having jurisdiction thereof.
-Ant Theater prefer to satisfy your concerns as quickly and efficiently as possible, before initiating any arbitration. You agree to first discuss the matter informally with Ant Theater for at least 30 days. To do that, please send your full legal name and contact information, your concern and your proposed solution by mail to Ant Theater at:
Ant Theater,
Attn: Legal Department.
P O Box 2256,
Pasadena CA 91102
-Ant Theater value transparency. Thank you in advance for understanding why it’s important that you and Ant Theater agree on the process described in this Section.
92. The parties waive all rights to trial in any action or proceeding instituted in connection with these Terms and/or these Scholarships.
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93. GENERAL INFORMATION
Every provision of these Terms & Conditions will be construed, to the extent possible, so as to be valid and enforceable.
94. CALENDAR:
APPLICATIONS / SUBMISSIONS LAST CLOSING DATES
IN BROAD CATEGORIES,
APPLICATIONS/SUBMISSIONS CLOSE IN: 2014…… 2015
PRE-PRODUCTION & STILL ART…………12/31/14…10/31/15
MOTION & PERFORMANCE ART…………12/31/14…12/31/15
POST-PRODUCTION ART…………………..01/31/15…12/31/15
INTERACTIVE ART…………………………..02/28/15…01/31/15
GAME ART……………………………………03/31/15…03/31/15.
IMMERSIVE ART…………………………….03/31/15…03/31/15
IF ANY CLOSING DATE FALLS ON A U.S.POSTAL HOLIDAY, THE NEXT ACTIVE POSTAL DAY POSTMARK WILL BE THE CLOSING DATE.
THE AWARDS JUDGES’ SCORING WILL BE COMPLETED BY:
IN BROAD CATEGORIES, ……………..: 2014…… 2015
PRE-PRODUCTION & STILL ART…………03/31/15…12/31/15
MOTION & PERFORMANCE ART…………03//31/15…03/31/16
POST-PRODUCTION ART…………………..03/31/15…03/31/16
INTERACTIVE ART…………………………..05/31/15…04/30/16
GAME ART……………………………………06/30/15…06/31/16.
IMMERSIVE ART…………………………….06/301/15…06/31/16
THE AWARDS ANNOUNCEMENTS
will be made from ………………6/15 through 2/16….6/16 - 2/17
95. International Use.
Ant Theater is a California based company. Ant Theater's goal is to bring you as much monetary support as is legally available. Ant Theater is limited by the rights our content licensor grants to us. Using technologies to access the Content from territories where Ant Theater does not have rights, or does not offer services, is prohibited. Please check as Ant Theater lists Territories of Permitted Use.
At this time, Use is limited to:
CALIFORNIA COMPETENT ADULT RESIDENTS
97. K- Export Controls.
K2- Software and the transmission of applicable technical data, if any, in connection with Ant Theater Services are subject to export controls.
K1- You agree to comply with all applicable laws regarding software and the transmission of technical data exported from the United States or the country in which you reside.
98 L- No Waiver/Reliance.
L3- How Ant Theater responds to a party that is violating these Terms will be determined after carefully analyzing all of the facts and circumstances of a particular case. You may not rely upon Ant Theater's precise response with respect to one party or one situation as any indication of what Ant Theater might do with respect to another party or another situation, even if the parties or situations appear to you to be similar. Similarly, if Ant Theater fails to act in response to a violation of these Terms, you should not assume that Ant Theater does not object to the violation or even that Ant Theater is aware of it.
L2- In addition, you may not construe a waiver of any provision of these Terms with respect to any party as a waiver of that provision (or any other provision) with respect to either that party or any other party. Further, Ant Theater's decision to delay exercising or enforcing any right or remedy under these Terms shall not constitute a waiver of such right or remedy. Even if Ant Theater acts in a way that appears to you to be inconsistent with these Terms, Ant Theater's action shall not be deemed a waiver or constructive amendment of these Terms.
L1- Ant Theater may waive any term or condition at its sole discretion, so choose to not seek a remedy. No waiver by Ant Theater of any breach or default hereunder will be deemed to be a waiver of any preceding or subsequent breach or default. Ant Theater may waive any term or condition at its sole discretion. Such waiver will not be deemed a waiver of any other term or condition, whether similar or different. If any term or condition is invalid or unenforceable, that provision will be construed, limited, modified or, if necessary, severed, to the extent necessary to eliminate its invalidity or un- enforceability, and the other provisions will remain in full force and effect.
99. M- Choice of Governing Law and Forum.
Every provision of these Terms & Conditions will be construed, to the extent possible, so as to be valid and enforceable.
These Terms and all issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Terms,
or the rights and obligations of a submitter, scholarship Applicant, and/or an Administrator in connection with the Ant Theater and Scholarships,
are governed by, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of California, U.S.A.,
without giving effect to the conflict of laws or rules thereof, and any matters or proceedings which are not subject to arbitration as set forth in these Terms and/or for entering any judgment on an arbitration award, shall take place in the State of California, in the County of Los Angeles, in the City of Pasadena.
In the event of a claim by you against Ant Theater, you agree to submit to [Arbitration vs. the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts] located in the Los Angeles County of the State of California. In the event of a claim by Ant Theater against you, you agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts located where Ant Theater pursues its claim against you, which may include courts in the Los Angeles County of the State of California. Any offer is void where prohibited by law. Exclusive venue for any litigation arising from these Terms and Conditions shall be the State or Federal courts located in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
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100. - CHANGING A SCREEN CREDIT
Because of safeguards, to make an change of your personal Credit listing on any Application(s) /Submission(s) for next publication, you need to first confirm your identity: with a color photocopy of a REAL PHOTO I.D. submitted with your specific written signed change request, having your Member I.D.,your unique e-mail input with the exact time/zone/date of your membership enrollment, and enclose a check or USPS money order payable to Ant Theater for $45.00, at least 90 days before the close of that year’s submission period (Think of a New Year’s Resolution).
101 N- Assignment.
You may not assign any of your rights or delegate any of your obligations under these Terms without Ant Theater’s prior specific written consent. Any purported assignment without such consent will be null and void.
102 O- Section Headings.
The section headings used in these Terms are provided as a convenience to finding terms only and have no legal or contractual purpose or effect.
103 P- Correction of Errors and Inaccuracies.
Ant Theater Web Page Content may contain typographical errors or other errors or inaccuracies, and may not be correct or current. (This is not our intention at any time, but it happens.) Ant Theater reserves the right to correct any errors, inaccuracies or omissions, and to change or update the Content at any time without prior notice. Ant Theater does not, however, guarantee that any errors, inaccuracies or omissions will be corrected.
104 Q- CHANGES TO THE Terms BY Ant Theater
Q8- Ant Theater may amend these Terms at any time by posting amended Terms at Ant Theater.org. By posting, Ant Theater notifies you of the change.
Q7- Any material amendment to these Terms shall be effective automatically after it is initially posted or at the time of registration or renewed consent by your use, as applicable.
Q6- Ant Theater reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to revise these Terms & Conditions at any time, for any reason, without prior notice. Ant Theater also reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change the methods through which future selections for publication and distribution are made.
Q5- This may include changing the approval requirements necessary by increasing or decreasing the rubrics that must be completed to qualify, establishing or eliminating demographic divisions, and adding or decreasing the number of steps to confirm for publication.
Q4- Ant Theater may also add or remove any submission at any time.
Q3- Ant Theater will reasonably attempt to follow our published policy.
Q2- Please check these Terms & Conditions periodically for changes.
Q1- Your Application, Submission for distribution consideration, or website use or access following any such modification constitutes your agreement to follow and be bound by the Terms & Conditions as modified.
105 R- Integrity of Ant Theater Scholarships.
If, for any reason, Ant Theater is not capable of running as planned by reason of infection by computer virus, worms, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes which the Ant Theater Administrator, in its sole opinion, believes could corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of Ant Theater programs, Ant Theater reserves the right at its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend Scholarships and select from Applicants' Applications received prior to the action taken or in such other manner as Ant Theater may deem fair and appropriate.
106 S- Force Majeure.
Ant Theater, its subsidiaries, affiliates, distributors, licensors, partners, service-providers, advertisers, and each of their respective officers, directors, employees, and agents, shall not be deemed to be in breach of these Terms & Conditions or the Privacy Policy due to any delay, failure to perform, or interruption in the availability of. Ant Theater process or products resulting directly or indirectly from any act of nature or other cause beyond their reasonable control.
107 T- Survival.
All provisions of these Terms & Conditions that are intended to survive termination shall so survive.
108 U- Integration, Amendment.and Sever-ability
U3- These Terms, including our Privacy Policy, constitute the entire legal agreement between you and Ant Theater and govern your use of Ant Theater Services (including your use of the Content), and participation for each party. [These exclude any services Ant Theater may provide to you under a separate signed written agreement.] ANY OFFERS ARE VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW.
U2- These Terms may not be amended as an agreement providing an exception, except in a writing signed by Ant Theater’s Board, not with electronic or digital mark, but only inked written signatures on such an exceptional agreement.
U1 - These Terms operate to the fullest extent permissible by law. If any part of these Terms is held to be unlawful, void, or unenforceable, you and Ant Theater agree that the provision will be severable from these Terms, be interpreted to retain its nearest lawful real world meaning, and will not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
109 V- Crowd Funding Proceeds Restrictions
V2- Ant Theater can meet its aggressive resolution to award at least 90% of all received donor funds as Scholarships by allowing some Administrative participation in producing crowd-funding projects as portfolio delivery goals. Crowd-funding efforts are constrained by Ant Theater’s budget Terms.
V1- ANT THEATER may at its sole discretion offer resulting process/products in appreciation for donations and stretch goals to crowd-funded projects. Any such processes are subject to both Ant Theater’s budget rules and the restrictions set by the particular Crowd-Funding website organization.
110 W- TIME & TIME ZONE DATES:
W1- Because Ant Theater Service is offered in multiple time zones, for consistency, a "day" for purposes of these Terms begins sixty seconds before 12:01 a.m. Pacific Time and ends fifty-nine seconds after 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time of that same calendar day.
W2- Terms & Conditions: Last Updated: September 29, 2014
111 X Ant Theater Scholarship Awards List/Terms.
X3- The name(s) of Scholarship Grant Award Recipients may be posted on-line or published, according to the Terms, and Awardee’s default or correctively supplied consent.
X2- The name of those selected to be Scholarship Award Recipients may likewise be posted and Terms listed, in published compilations containing the Submissions and/or Applicants’ Derivative Work(s).
X1- Terms are posted on AntTheater.org
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112 Y- A NOTE TO DONORS of DONATIONS, ENDOWMENTS, and MENTOR PROGRAMS ABOUT YOUR DONOR AGREEMENT
Y2- By donating an endowment to our endowment and/or mentor matching programs, you are certifying you have read, understand and agree to these Terms & Conditions, as well as our Privacy Policy.
Y1- Ant Theater regards endowment and mentoring demographic distribution specifications as important, and will enter into contracts regarding future distributions. Mentors and Endowments may specify their Awards preferences, so long as judges’ selection from a specified qualified pool remains unbiased.
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113 z2- Questions for Additional Information. To keep overhead low, and funds for your grants higher, Ant Theater does not offer telephone support. Please send your questions, and concerns to Ant Theater by U.S. mail to:
ANT THEATER.
Attn: FAQ’s
P. O. Box 2256
Pasadena, CA 91102
114 z1-Language: Ant Theater’s express will is that these Terms & Conditions and all related documents have been drawn up in, and are defined by, English. To the extent any translated version of this agreement conflicts with the English version, the (U.S.) English version controls.
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