Announcing Adobe riathon '08

[raghu...@gmail.com]

Hi All,
We are running an event called “Adobe riathon”. It’s an event that
runs for over a week (starting today) an you need to build a cool RIA
on the Adobe Flash Platform (Flex/ Flash / AIR). Here is an invite and
please forward it to your acquaintances and friends who are interested
in Adobe technologies.

Thanks,
Raghu
Platform Evangelist, Adobe Bangalore.

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If you are a Flex/ Flash / AIR developer and think you can be the one
behind the coolest of all RIAs, you cannot afford to miss this event!
Put on your RIA development shoes, build the coolest app that you can
imagine and send it to us on or before 26th November 2008. If your
application catches our attention, you will be invited to a special
event on the 29th of November at Grand Ashok, Bangalore where the top
applications will go on stage for a demo showdown! This is your chance
to Flash your design skills, Flex your coding muscles and AIR your
demos in front of an elite judge panel & the Adobe community.

The Grand winner / winning team will walk away with a groovy Apple
IPhones.
The runners up will take home with them a Sony home theater system.

What’s more, there are loads of IPod Nano’s, shuffles and Adobe
branded goodies to be won.

This event also brings to you an exclusive preview on the new
developments in the Adobe Flash Platform. Experience the Flash
Catalyst (code name Thermo), Gumbo(code name for the upcoming version
of Flex) ,FXG and Flash Player 10.

Register today at http://adoberiathon.eventbrite.com

For more information and contest rules & regulations, please visit
http://adoberiathon.wordpress.com

[Mrinal Wadhwa]

Hi Raghu,

So I was about to start building something for RIAthon today but this paragraph in the Terms and Conditions sounds like a deal breaker to me ...

"Each Contestant agrees that if his or her entry is selected as a Finalist entry, as a condition of receiving a prize, Contestant shall sign a license agreement granting to Adobe a royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide license to use, reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, modify for purposes of publicly performing and publicly displaying, and prepare derivative works based upon winner's entry, for the purposes of advertising and promoting Adobe products, and for inclusion in and distribution with Adobe products."

Could you please clarify this in a non-legal language .. maybe I'm interpreting this wrong but does this mean after a submission is selected .. Adobe owns all rights to the application including and its source code and can do whatever they want with it? Also does this in anyway take away the author's ability to monetize his code later on?

Thank you,
Mrinal
http://www.mrinalwadhwa.com