Confidentiality and Intellectual Property

The authors of the business plan will retain all rights to the plan regarding its use at all times prior to and following the contest except as stated below. Due the nature of the contest, we will not ask judges, reviewers, staff or the audience to agree to or sign non-disclosure statements to any participant.

Some sessions of the competition are open to the public at large, including the exhibition and the final round. Any and all of these public sessions may be broadcast to interested persons through the media which may include radio, television, print, and the Internet. Any data or information discussed or divulged in public sessions by entrants should be considered information likely to enter the public domain, and entrants should not assume any right of confidentiality in any data or information discussed, divulged, or presented in these sessions.

CleanStart, the organizer of the event, may make photocopies, photographs, videotapes, DVDs and/or audiotapes of the presentations including all documents, charts or material prepared for use in presentation in the contest.

Teams will be asked to certify their plans are original, that they will comply with the rules of the contest, and that they waive and release each and every contest official, organizer, and judge from any responsibilities or accountabilities or liabilities in relation to such person’s participation in the contest