Rights Disclaimer

Due to the nature of the 2010 Tony Brower Innovation Exposition, the organizing committee, reviewers, judges, staff or the audience will not be asked to agree to or sign non-disclosure statements for any participant. All presentations are open to the public at large and may be broadcast through any form of media (such as, radio, television, internet, etc).

The SIFE TRU Organization reserves the right to make photocopies, photographs, videotapes and/or audiotapes of the presentations including the business plans and other documents, charts or material prepared for use in presentation at the 2010 Tony Brower Innovation Exposition. Students retain all proprietary rights to their business plan and intellectual property. Upon approval from the participants, Thompson Rivers University may use the materials in any book or other printed materials and any videotape or other medium that it may produce. The University has non-exclusive world rights in all languages, and in all media, to use or to publish the materials in any book, other printed materials, videotapes or other medium, and to use the materials in future editions thereof and derivative products.

The protection of intellectual property and the rights to the ideas contained in business plans submitted are the ultimate responsibility of each applicant, and the organizers of the competition are not responsible for any proprietary information and/or intellectual property included in a business plan they submit to the 2010 Tony Brower Innovation Exposition.

The SIFE TRU Organization and 2010 Tony Brower Innovation Exposition Organizing Committee reserves the right to disqualify, without recourse, any entry that is deemed illegal, immoral, unethical, or in any way in violation to the rules and regulations.