Rules for participation
Story format
The author should submit an original story or poem of 8,000 characters maximum, including spaces. The TED contest is limited to TED 2018 conference attendees.
Stories must be fictional. All stories dealing with news or history, that are biographical, articles, essays, or pastiches of current events will not be accepted or published.
Submitted fiction may otherwise be of any genre, including but not limited to: drama, romance, science fiction, etc. Pornographic or erotic texts are not allowed.
Author
The TED contest is limited to TED 2018 conference attendees.
The author may use a nickname that will appear adjacent to or nearby the title of the story.
Rights, Guaranties, and Responsibilities
Guaranties and responsibilities
The author represents and warrants:
- they are the sole author of the submitted story and that it is an original work;
- they own the copyright to the work and they have never transferred the rights to a third party;
- the work does not violate any other right including patent, intellectual property, or other proprietary rights of any third parties;
- the work does not contain any scandalous, libelous, obscene, indecent, pornographic, erotic, or unlawful matter and is not otherwise objectionable;
- the work does not make any improper invasion of the privacy of any person;
- and that the work is previously unpublished and is not subject to an agreement to publish.
Copy and distribution
Subject to the acceptance of the story by Short Édition, the author grants the right to Short Édition and TED to modify, edit, correct, translate, adapt, reproduce, distribute, and publish the submitted stories on the short edition website and in the Short Story Dispensers worldwide and in any other online media including the internet, mobile apps, or any other electronic form under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This license allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in the TED contest.
The author agrees that no royalties or any other payment or remuneration is due in connection with publication with the TED 2018 contest either online or in print.
Selection and publication
The Editorial Team of Short Édition and TED is solely responsible for determining the texts which have sufficient quality, originality, and other criteria for publication. The Editorial Team may decide to refuse or remove a text without any justification or for any reason whatsoever. Authors may revoke the license by sending a request to cease publication of their story via the contact form by specifying their name, nickname used (if any), and title of the story. Revocation requests are subject to verification.
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