Prize handbook · Deliver
Your research stays yours.
Keep your research ownership, with only limited review and reporting rights granted to Build54.
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Your research stays yours
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Keep ownership of your research
Entering, being shortlisted, or winning never transfers ownership.
Name rights and sources
You must have the right to submit and must name co-authors, third-party content, and generated material.
Protect trade secrets
Do not submit trade secrets unless the Prize gives a secure route.
Limit access to Prize administration
b54 stores and shares your work only with authorized people, only to run the Prize.
Publicity needs your consent
Publicity uses only what you have consented to.
Agree commercial rights separately
Anything commercial needs a separate written agreement, and saying no does not affect your award.
Disputes, corrections, and revocation
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Applicants retain ownership of their original research, code, data, designs, inventions, and pre-existing material. Entering, being shortlisted, or receiving an award does not transfer that ownership to b54, a reviewer, or a partner.
The applicant must have the right to submit the work and must identify co-authors, institutional or employer rights, third-party content, open-source material, datasets, generated content, and restrictions. Do not submit trade secrets or confidential information unless the specific Prize provides an approved secure route and appropriate terms.
The specific Prize terms or a separate explicit confirmation must provide any permission b54 needs to store, copy, and share submitted material with authorized people solely to administer, verify, audit, and evaluate the Prize. With separate publicity consent, b54 may publish the applicant’s approved name, biography, image, research title, summary, and factual award result. b54 does not receive a right to commercialize or license the research.
Any materially broader licence, assignment, incubation, investment, publication, partner access, or commercialization requires a separate written agreement with the relevant owner. Declining a later commercial proposal does not change an award already earned under the published rules.