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5. I hereby irrevocably grant to the Sponsor, and those acting with their authority, the unrestricted, absolute, perpetual, worldwide right and license to use my name, address, photograph, likeness, voice, biographical and personal background information, statements, and Contest entry, and, without limitation, any notes, photograph, film, or video or audio tape that may be taken of me or of such materials (the foregoing, collectively, the “Content”), without further compensation, consideration, or notice or permission to me or to any third party, and to reproduce, copy, modify, create derivative works of, display, perform, exhibit, distribute, transmit or broadcast, publicly or otherwise, or otherwise use and permit to be used the Content or any part thereof, whether alone or in combination with other materials (including but not limited to text, data, images, photographs, illustrations, and graphics, video or audio segments of any nature), in any media or embodiment now known or hereafter developed (including but not limited to any format of any computer-­‐based, Internet-­‐ based, electronic, magnetic, digital, laser or optical-­‐based media), in connection with any Partner (or its designee)’s advertising, promotion, publicity, trade, sweepstakes or contest promotions, activities, or materials.

7. I hereby grant to Sponsor a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-­‐free, sub-­‐licensable, fully paid-­‐up, worldwide license to my entry in the Contest, together with all intellectual property rights therein, including, without limitation, the license rights to cache, copy, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform and reproduce my Entry on the websites of Sponsor, and in all other media, telecast, broadcast, via mobile devices, as well as through unknown new media hereinafter developed, and to modify and create derivative works from my entry. I hereby waive all claims that any use by Sponsor, derivative or otherwise, of my entry violates any of my rights, including, but not limited to, moral rights, privacy rights, rights to publicity, proprietary or other rights, and/or rights to credit for the material or ideas set forth therein.

Some of that language is designed so the contest can play your song on their website, put it on "this years' winner" CDs, and in general be able to say that "this song" was a big winner in our contest, without having to pay you for it.