''All Entries become the property of the Sponsor.''
''Submitting a Submission constitutes entrant’s consent to give Sponsor Entities a royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable license to use [....] including but not limited to making the Submission available for game play''
So.... you'll give money to the top 3, and take the rest for free?
I noticed this when coming across this jam, and had a similar point of criticism, also this language is a bit vague.
"All Entries become the property of the Sponsor." - which implies that we could possibly not have ownership over the IP at the conclusion of the jam.
"non-exclusive, transferable license" - non-exclusive implies that access isn't restricted to the sponsor.
So would we still have access to developing our concepts further post jam if we don't win any of the offered prizes, and the jam version of our games would be accessible and usable by CoolMathGames for free? Or is the intent that ownership completely transfers to CoolMathGames regardless of the outcome of rankings?
Whenever the CoolMath Games employee that's been answering questions comes to clarify these parts of the rules, can we also get clarification on whether none US residents (who aren't eligible for the competition) give CoolMath Games the same rights by submitting a game? (I would assume not but would be nice to have some clarification)
Yeah I'm pretty sure you're breaking rules with both coolmath and itch by doing that. If you agree to enter, your submission becomes their property, so you're more than likely violating certain laws by restricting their access or remotely controlling the game.
You think you're being smart, but you're really not.
Hi all, thank you for creating this thread. We apologize for the confusion and would like to clarify.
When you submit a game to this game jam, we DO NOT take ownership of the game. Developers will still maintain all ownership of their games. When we select our 3 winners, we intend to promote those games on our financial literacy page and there will be a conversation of getting exclusivity for it. However, games that are not selected as winners are still the property of the developers.
This portion of the rules is meant to use the games as a way to promote and celebrate the creations from the game jam. When a game is submitted and it abides by our rules, your game will be featured in the Submissions on our game page. We own the submission of the game used in the jam, but this does NOT mean the games become our property. We have no intention of retrieving the source code from the games or taking control of the game's IP in any way.
We hope this helps clear up some confusion regarding the statement.
This is the email I got from them about this.
Thank you for contacting Coolmath Games and showing interest in our game jam! When you submit a game to this game jam, we DO NOT take ownership of the game. Developers will still maintain all ownership of their games. When we select our 3 winners, we intend to promote those games on our financial literacy page and there will be a conversation of getting exclusivity for it. However, games that are not selected as winners are still the property of the developers.
This portion of the rules is meant to use the games as a way to promote and celebrate the creations from the game jam. When a game is submitted and it abides by our rules, your game will be featured in the Submissions on our game page. We own the submission of the game used in the jam, but this does NOT mean the games become our property. We have no intention of retrieving the source code from the games or taking control of the game's IP in any way.
