Higgsfield Talent Contest — Official Rules

Effective: November 12, 2026
No purchase or payment of any kind is necessary to enter or win. A paid subscription does not improve your chances of winning. This is a contest of skill. Open to individuals 18 or older (or the age of majority where they live, if higher). Void where prohibited by law.
Welcome, and thank you for making something with us.
The Higgsfield Talent Contest is a short, hackathon-style film contest: two weeks, an open theme, and real money for the filmmakers who make the most of it. We built these Rules to be fair to you, easy to follow, and clear about what we're each committing to. If anything here is unclear, please write to us at the contact in Section 17. We would rather answer a question than see a great film disqualified over a misunderstanding.

Timeline

We may finish screening, shortlisting, voting validation or jury review early. We will never shorten the Creation Window or move a deadline earlier (see Section 14). If dates change, the Timeline on the Contest page is the current schedule.

Overview

The Higgsfield Talent Contest (the "Contest") is a contest of skill run by Higgsfield Inc. ("Higgsfield," "we," "us"). In two weeks, you make a 3–7 minute film on any theme in a dedicated contest project on higgsfield.ai. You can work in public and share your progress, or work privately until the deadline. The prize pool is $1,000,000 USD in cash across 20 awards. Winners are chosen on merit by a jury, plus two community-voted Audience Choice awards. Chance plays no part.
These Official Rules ("Rules") are the single source of truth for eligibility, entry, judging and prizes. If anything on our website, in marketing or in another message conflicts with these Rules, these Rules govern. By entering, publishing a project, voting or accepting a Grant, you agree to these Rules, Higgsfield's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. If these Rules conflict with the Terms of Service on anything specific to the Contest, these Rules control. Notices and schedule updates are posted at https://higgsfield.ai/contests/talent-contest (the "Contest page").

At a Glance

1. Definitions

• Contest Project: the dedicated project on higgsfield.ai, created for the Contest, where an Entry is made and managed and all of its AI generations, Qualifying Higgsfield Edits and External Source Assets are kept. Each Entry has exactly one Contest Project.
• Entry: one standalone film submitted to the Contest, together with its Contest Project.
• Participant: an individual entrant or, for a team, each team member.
• Team Leader: the owner of the Contest Project. The team's single point of contact and payee.
• Creation Window: the period from the Contest opening until the final submission deadline, as stated in the Timeline.
• Public Project / Private Project: a Contest Project published on higgsfield.ai during the Creation Window through Create in Public, or one kept visible only to its team until the deadline (Section 4).
• External Source Asset: an AI-generated image or video created with a tool outside Higgsfield and uploaded to a Contest Project.
• Qualifying Higgsfield Edit: an edit that meets Section 5.3.
• Minimal Viable Submission (MVS): the required components listed in Section 5.6.
• Engagement Shortlist / Team Selection / Shortlist: the up to 25 Public Projects ranked by engagement; the additional Entries chosen by Higgsfield's creative team; and the two together (Section 9).
• Grant: a discretionary award of Higgsfield platform credits to a Public Project (Section 8). A Grant is not a prize.
• Placement Prize / Category Award / Audience Choice Award: the prizes described in Section 7.

2. Eligibility

In short: you need to be 18+ with a Higgsfield account in good standing. No paid subscription is needed. Teams of up to 4 are welcome. People who judge or help run the Contest can't compete, which keeps judging fair.

Who can enter

• You have a Higgsfield account in good standing under the Terms of Service, free or paid, both when your Contest Project is created and when you submit.
• You are at least 18 years old and at least the age of majority where you live.
• You may enter solo or as a team of up to 4 people. Team membership is locked at submission. Every team member must meet every eligibility requirement and individually accept these Rules. The Team Leader owns the Contest Project and is the team's payee.
• You enter on your own behalf, not through or for a company or agency, and you don't create extra accounts to get more credits, Grants, votes or entries.

Where

The Contest is open worldwide, except where prohibited by law or where sanctions make participation or payouts impossible. Sanctioned persons, persons on a U.S. designated nationals list, and residents of embargoed territories are not eligible. See Section 7 for prizes that can't legally be paid.

Who can't enter

The following people can't enter or win: employees, officers and directors of Higgsfield and its affiliates; members of the jury; anyone involved in screening, Team Selection, Grant decisions, Audience Choice vote validation or winner selection; and the immediate family (spouse or partner, parent, child, sibling) and household members of any of them. Members of Higgsfield's Creative Partnership Program, and contractors, may enter only if they are not involved in judging, selection or Grant decisions.

3. Format and Entries

In short: the theme is open. Make what you want, in the genre and style you want. Enter as many separate films as you like, but each participant or team can win only one prize.
The Contest is a single open track. Any genre, style, subject or narrative approach is welcome, subject to Section 6 (Prohibited Content).

• There is no limit on the number of Entries, but each Entry must be a separate, standalone film made in its own Contest Project.
• The same or substantially the same film may not be entered more than once. Higgsfield may treat near-duplicate Entries as a single Entry.
• Films made before the Contest opened, or for another contest, are not eligible.
• One prize per participant or team. A participant or team may receive only one Contest prize in total across all Entries (see Section 7).

4. Public and Private Projects

In short: choose to work in public or in private. Public projects share work in progress, can reach the Top 25 by engagement and can receive Grants. Private projects stay hidden until the deadline; submitted ones then become public.

4.1 Public Projects (Create in Public)

You can publish your Contest Project at any time during the Creation Window to share your work in progress ("WIP") through Create in Public. A Public Project:

• has a public page on higgsfield.ai showing at least one WIP cut, a cover (Auto-cover may be used) and a short project brief;
• can be ranked for the Engagement Shortlist, considered for Team Selection, and receive Grants and creative feedback; and
• keeps its first publication date even if it is later unpublished and republished.

The official Higgsfield watermark and packshot are applied automatically to video published from a Contest Project.

4.2 Private Projects

A Private Project is visible only to its team during the Creation Window. It can't be ranked for the Engagement Shortlist or receive a Grant while private.

4.3 Changing visibility before the deadline

• You may publish a Private Project at any time before the deadline. Engagement is counted only from its first publication.
• You may return a Public Project to private at any time before the deadline unless it has received a Grant. If you do, it is removed from the engagement ranking and its engagement is frozen. If you republish it before the deadline, its frozen engagement is restored and its first publication date doesn't change.
• A Public Project that has received a Grant can't be made private (the platform disables this).

4.4 Reveal at the deadline

At the final submission deadline, every submitted Entry, public or private, becomes publicly viewable on higgsfield.ai and stays public, open for anyone to explore: the final film, WIP cuts, cover and brief, prompts, generation history and all assets kept in the Contest Project, including External Source Assets and other uploads. Submitting a Private Project early doesn't make it public early; it is revealed at the deadline with all other Entries. A Public Project that isn't submitted as a final Entry by the deadline stays publicly visible, but it isn't eligible for the Shortlist or any prize. A Private Project that isn't submitted stays private.

4.5 Continuity

If your project was public, your final film must be a good-faith continuation of the WIP you shared. Revising, restructuring and extending it are expected. Swapping in an unrelated film is a material violation.

5. Film Requirements

In short: 3–7 minutes. AI video and images are generated on Higgsfield in your Contest Project. You may also bring in AI images or video made elsewhere, but only after transforming them with a model on Higgsfield. Traditional editing and 3D tools are welcome. Music, voices and dialogue must be AI-generated. Keep everything in your project so we can verify it, and post your film publicly with our watermark.

5.1 Technical requirements

5.2 Where generation must happen

All AI video and image generation for your film must take place in your Contest Project on higgsfield.ai during the Creation Window. Any model available on Higgsfield may be used. The only exception is External Source Assets used under Section 5.3. Apart from that exception, AI video or images generated on any other AI platform or tool may not appear in your film.
Product features such as Auto-cover and Katana edit creation are available and optional. Using them, or any particular model or feature, is not required and is not a judging criterion.

5.3 External Source Assets (AI images and video made outside Higgsfield)

You may use AI-generated images and video made outside Higgsfield as source material for your film, but only if all of the following are true:

1. Uploaded. You upload the External Source Asset into your Contest Project before using it.
2. Transformed on Higgsfield. During the Creation Window, in your Contest Project, you process it with a generative model available on Higgsfield that creates new or changed visual content from it, for example image-to-video, video-to-video, restyling, relighting, inpainting, object or character replacement, or new motion (a "Qualifying Higgsfield Edit").
3. Only the edited output is used. Only the output of a Qualifying Higgsfield Edit, or a later Higgsfield generation built from it, appears in your film. The External Source Asset itself, in its original or a non-qualifying form, never does.
4. Traceable. The External Source Asset, the record of the Qualifying Higgsfield Edit (model, settings and prompt) and the resulting output all stay in your Contest Project, so that each shot can be matched to its source and edit. You must also keep a record of the outside tool used to generate each External Source Asset.

What is not a Qualifying Higgsfield Edit. The following don't qualify, alone or in combination: uploading or storing a file; upscaling, super-resolution, sharpening or denoising; frame interpolation or frame-rate conversion; format, codec, resolution, aspect-ratio or compression changes; cropping, trimming, speed or color adjustments; automatic application of the watermark or packshot; and any other operation that leaves the visual content substantially unchanged.
Timing. External Source Assets may have been created at any time, but every Qualifying Higgsfield Edit must be made in your Contest Project during the Creation Window.
Rights and content. You must own or have the right to use each External Source Asset for the Contest, including for the licences in Section 11, and your use must comply with the outside tool's terms (including any limits on commercial use). External Source Assets are subject to Section 6 (Prohibited Content) in full. They may not reproduce anyone else's creative work or depict or imitate any real person.
This Section 5.3 applies to images and video only. Audio is governed by Section 5.5.

5.4 Traditional and external editing tools

Traditional (non-AI) editing, color grading, compositing, design, and 3D and animation software, such as Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, After Effects, Photoshop and Blender, may be used freely at any stage. Content you make by hand in these tools counts as your own work. Outside tools may not be used to generate new AI imagery for your film, for example generative fill or expand, AI object insertion, text- or image-to-video, AI upscaling or AI frame interpolation, except as External Source Assets that go through a Qualifying Higgsfield Edit under Section 5.3.

5.5 Audio

All music, voices, dialogue and lip-sync in your film must be AI-generated. They may be generated with any AI tool, on Higgsfield or elsewhere, at any time before or during the Creation Window. Human-composed or performed music, licensed or stock music, recorded instruments, live vocals and human-recorded voice-over or dialogue are not allowed, even if you own or license them. Sound effects and sound design don't have to be AI-generated: you may use non-AI sound effects, such as recorded or library sounds, as long as you own them or have the rights to use them for the Contest, including for the licences in Section 11. Voices may not clone or imitate any real person (Section 6).

5.6 Minimal Viable Submission

Each Entry must include the following, before the final submission deadline:

• Final film: submitted from your Contest Project with the Higgsfield watermark and packshot intact; and
• Public YouTube video: A link to your final film published publicly on YouTube, with the watermark and packshot intact, is required for submission. The video and channel must be public, and the video must be viewable without signing in. The video must remain public until winners are announced. You may also post your film on Instagram, X or other platforms, but a YouTube link is mandatory. Removals outside your control, such as a platform action or account suspension, are excused if the link was valid at submission.

Teams must also confirm the team roster and each member's acceptance of these Rules at submission. The social post is a submission requirement, not a judging criterion. Social views and engagement are never judged. An Entry missing any MVS component is incomplete and won't be considered. You may re-submit a final film, replacing the earlier one in the same Contest Project, until the deadline.

5.7 Keep your work in the project

Every generation, Qualifying Higgsfield Edit and External Source Asset used in your film must stay in your Contest Project. If a project doesn't keep enough of its underlying assets for us to verify the film, or the final footage doesn't match the project's history, we may investigate and mark the Entry non-eligible. Official Higgsfield material (such as open-source packs, Higgsfield projects and Academy drops) may be used freely.

6. Prohibited Content

In short: make original work. Don't use anyone else's creative work, and don't depict or imitate any real person. Not even yourself, and not even with consent.
Everything you create for the Contest must follow Higgsfield's usage restrictions under the Terms of Service. These rules apply to your film, WIP, cover, brief, External Source Assets and social post. Entries containing any of the following will be disqualified at any stage, including after a prize is paid (see Section 10):

• protected third-party intellectual property, such as characters, franchises, brands, logos, music or artwork, used without authorization;
• pornographic or sexually explicit content;
• violence against real individuals;
• political statements, endorsements, propaganda or misinformation;
• religious statements, proselytizing or disparagement;
• illegal, defamatory or rights-violating content, or content otherwise prohibited under the Terms of Service;
• likenesses and voices of real people: any identifiable real person, living or dead, by any means (filmed, photographed, AI-generated, drawn, animated or otherwise), and any cloned or imitated voice of a real person. This applies to everyone, including yourself, your team, family, friends, public figures and historical figures. Consent does not override this rule. Films should feature only fully fictional characters and voices; and
• children: real children and their voices may not appear. Fictional AI-generated characters who appear under 18 are allowed only if they don't resemble any real child; don't appear in any sexualized, romantic, suggestive, exploitative or otherwise harmful context; aren't depicted as a victim or perpetrator of graphic violence, self-harm or abuse; and comply with all applicable child-protection laws.

7. Prize Pool: $1,000,000 (All Cash)

In short: 20 cash awards. Each participant or team can win only one prize, so the pool spreads across as many filmmakers as possible. Team prizes are paid to the Team Leader.

• One prize per participant or team. Placement Prizes, the Audience Choice Awards and Category Awards don't stack. If an Entry, participant or team is selected for more than one award, it receives the highest-value award. Each other award goes to the next-ranked eligible Entry for that award. Where the awards are of equal value, the jury decides which award the Entry receives, and the other goes to the next eligible Entry the jury judges best in that category.
• Grants, feedback and shortlisting don't guarantee an award.
• Insufficient entries. If there aren't enough eligible Entries of sufficient quality for an award, Higgsfield may move that award's amount to additional Category Awards or otherwise adjust the distribution, aiming to award the pool as fully as possible across eligible work.
• Payment. Prizes are paid in cash in U.S. dollars, only to the verified winner or Team Leader, by bank transfer or another method we support, within 45 days after verification is complete. Prizes can't be transferred or exchanged. Team Leaders are solely responsible for splitting a prize within the team; Higgsfield won't mediate. If a Team Leader can't complete verification or legally receive payment, the team may name another verified member as payee within the verification window.
• Taxes. Recipients are responsible for any applicable taxes. Higgsfield may withhold or report amounts where required by law.
• Payment not possible. If we can't lawfully pay a winner (for example because of sanctions), the prize goes to the next eligible Entry for that award.

8. Grants and Creative Feedback

In short: we may give credits and feedback to promising public projects. They are separate from the prize pool, and they don't affect judging.

• Discretionary, no application. Higgsfield may select Public Projects to receive Grants of Higgsfield platform credits and creative feedback, at its sole discretion, based on engagement and other signals it chooses, without published criteria, rounds or quotas.
• Amount. Up to 100,000 credits per Public Project in total, whether given in one Grant or several.
• Restrictions. Grant credits may be spent only on generations in the Contest Project they were granted to. They are non-transferable, have no cash value, and expire at the final submission deadline. Unused credits aren't refunded or carried over.
• Stay public. A Public Project that receives a Grant must stay public through the deadline. Misusing Grant credits or trying to get around this is grounds for disqualification and for clawback of any unused balance.
• Feedback. Creative feedback is optional, non-binding guidance from our creative team. It isn't an ongoing conversation or a mentoring service, and it isn't an indication of selection, scoring or likelihood of winning. Receiving a Grant or feedback doesn't itself earn judging points or guarantee shortlisting or an award, and following or not following feedback doesn't affect judging. Your finished film is judged on its merits.
• Not a prize. Grants are funded separately from the $1,000,000 prize pool. They are not a prize, don't count toward the one-prize limit, and don't guarantee shortlisting or an award. We may decline Grants where we can't lawfully award credits.

9. Judging and Audience Choice

In short: we screen every Entry. The Top 25 public projects by engagement, plus Entries our creative team picks, form the Shortlist, and everyone on it competes equally. A jury awards 1st–3rd place and 15 category awards. A separate community vote decides the two Audience Choice awards.

9.1 Stage 1: Screening

We review every submitted Entry against Sections 2 to 6: eligibility, runtime, format, MVS, generation history, External Source Asset provenance and content. Entries that fail are marked non-eligible and don't go forward.

9.2 Stage 2: Shortlist (two routes)

(a) Engagement Shortlist (Top 25). At the final submission deadline, we rank eligible Entries that were Public Projects by their community engagement on higgsfield.ai, measured from each project's first publication until the deadline. The signals counted are likes, comments, followers and views on the project page. The weighting is set by Higgsfield before the Contest opens and doesn't change during it. The specific weighting is not disclosed. Only organic engagement from users with an active paid Higgsfield subscription at the time of the engagement counts, and we may exclude engagement we determine is inauthentic. Ties are broken in favor of the earlier first publication date. The top 25 form the Engagement Shortlist. If a project is removed for a Rules violation, the next-ranked eligible project takes its place. 25 is a ceiling, not a floor.
(b) Team Selection. Higgsfield's creative team also selects additional eligible Entries using the judging criteria in Section 9.4. There is no fixed number. Team Selection entries are in addition to the Engagement Shortlist. Submitted Private Projects can be selected once they become public at the final submission deadline (Section 4.4).
The Engagement Shortlist and Team Selection together form the Shortlist. Every Shortlisted Entry has equal access to every award. Shortlist positions are preliminary until winners are announced. After seating, an Entry may be removed only for a material violation of these Rules (for example a compliance failure, refused verification or vote manipulation), never on taste or editorial grounds.

9.3 Stage 3: two parallel tracks on the same Shortlist

(a) Audience Choice. The Shortlist is published on the Contest page for a separate community vote during the voting period in the Timeline. No votes, likes or engagement from the Creation Window carry over. Only users with an active paid Higgsfield subscription when they vote may vote. Each eligible voter may cast one vote per Shortlisted Entry and may change or withdraw a vote before voting closes. Participants can't vote for an Entry they are part of.
Vote manipulation (automated bots, fake accounts, purchased votes or coordinated inauthentic activity) is not allowed. Organic sharing, cross-posting and asking your own community to vote for you are all welcome and encouraged. Higgsfield may exclude votes that appear manipulated, and may exclude an Entry from the Audience Choice Awards if it identifies a manipulation pattern tied to that Entry. If vote manipulation tied to an Entry is material enough to warrant broader disqualification, Higgsfield may also remove the Entry from further consideration for any prize (Section 10). The two Audience Choice Awards go to the two Shortlisted Entries with the most valid votes cast during the voting period, provided each also passes compliance review. If one of them is disqualified on compliance grounds, the award moves to the next Entry by valid vote count.
(b) Jury. At the same time, an independent jury of filmmakers and industry professionals, announced on the Contest page before voting opens, reviews the Shortlist and selects 1st, 2nd and 3rd Place and the 15 Category Award winners (three winners in each of the five categories).

9.4 Judging criteria

The jury, and the creative team for Team Selection, score Entries from 1 to 10 on each of these criteria, which are weighted equally:

• Directing and Storytelling: narrative clarity, emotional impact, cinematic point of view;
• Visual Quality: composition, cinematography, coherence of imagery;
• Art Direction: world-building, production design, visual style;
• Sound: sound design, music, voice;
• Editing: pacing, rhythm, structure; and
• Originality and Concept: creative ambition, novelty of idea, effective use of the medium.

Placements are decided by total weighted score. Ties are broken by Originality and Concept, then Directing and Storytelling. In each category, the jury selects as equal winners the three Entries it judges best in that category. Criteria and weights are fixed before the Contest opens.

9.5 Fairness

Jurors and creative-team members must disclose any relationship with an entrant and step aside from that Entry. Don't contact, lobby, pay or pressure anyone involved in judging, Grants or selection, or ask anyone to do it for you. All judging, selection and vote-validation decisions are final and binding.

10. Verification, Violations and Disqualification

Verification. We may ask for information or documents at any time to confirm identity, age, residence, eligibility, team membership, account standing or compliance, and before paying any prize. This may include identity (KYC) checks, sanctions screening, a signed eligibility and compliance affidavit, a liability release and (where the law allows) a publicity release, tax forms and payment details. Potential winners must complete verification within 14 days of notification. Otherwise the prize may be forfeited and awarded to the next eligible Entry.
Audit rights and retention. We may ask for an Entry's sources at any time, before or after winners are announced. These include the generation history, prompts, project files, External Source Assets and the records linking each one to its Qualifying Higgsfield Edit and the final film, and information identifying the AI tools used for any External Source Asset. You must keep these for at least 24 months after the final submission deadline and provide them on request. Refusing is grounds for disqualification.
Reports. A Report is a control on a project page used to flag a suspected violation of these Rules or Higgsfield’s Terms of Service. Reports go to Higgsfield moderation and are reviewed on their merits; a high number of Reports is not, by itself, evidence of a violation. We won’t disclose the identity of reporters. Filing Reports in bad faith or in a coordinated way is prohibited and may lead to enforcement action under this Section.
Grounds for disqualification include:

• generating AI video or images outside Higgsfield, except External Source Assets used in compliance with Section 5.3;
• including an External Source Asset in the film without a Qualifying Higgsfield Edit, or without keeping the records Section 5.3 requires;
• using non-AI music, voices or dialogue in violation of Section 5.5;
• content prohibited under Section 6;
• vote or engagement manipulation (automated bots, fake accounts, purchased votes or engagement, or coordinated inauthentic activity);
• misusing Grant credits, getting around platform restrictions, or filing coordinated or bad-faith Reports;
• submitting someone else's work as your own, or swapping an unrelated film for a published WIP;
• refusing to provide project assets or sources when asked; and
• any material violation of these Rules or the Terms of Service.

Consequences. Depending on severity, we may ask you to fix the problem, exclude engagement or votes, mark an Entry non-eligible, remove it from the Shortlist, cancel a Grant and claw back unused credits, withdraw winner status, or permanently ban you from this and future Higgsfield contests. If a violation is discovered after a prize has been paid, the recipient must return the prize on Higgsfield's written demand. Higgsfield will apply this remedy proportionately and only for material violations of these Rules.

11. Rights and Licensing

You keep your rights. All copyright and other rights in your film remain with you (or your team). Publishing a project or submitting an Entry grants Higgsfield the licences in this Section. Keeping authorship doesn't prevent Higgsfield from using your submitted materials as described below.
Hosting. For Public Projects, you grant Higgsfield the rights needed to host, display, transcode and distribute your WIP and project page on higgsfield.ai to run Create in Public. For every submitted Entry, you also grant Higgsfield a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, display and make available on higgsfield.ai everything that becomes public under Section 4.4, including External Source Assets and other uploads, for as long as it stays public.
Licence to Higgsfield: Contest and product marketing. By publishing a project through Create in Public or submitting an Entry, you grant Higgsfield a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free licence to screen, publish, reproduce, distribute, display and use your published project materials and your film, and their parts (including WIP cuts, stills, clips, cover, brief, prompts and generation history), but not External Source Assets or other uploads, which are covered only by the hosting licence above, to:

• run and promote the Contest and future Higgsfield contests, festivals and creator events, including on Contest pages, Higgsfield's social channels, press materials and partner channels; and
• showcase what can be made on Higgsfield, including in marketing videos, landing pages, in-product examples, presentations, conference materials and paid advertising for Higgsfield's products.

Timing. For a Public Project, the licence above attaches to each material when it is first published through Create in Public, and continues even if the project is later made private or never submitted as a final Entry. For everything else in an Entry, it attaches at submission. It doesn't cover a Private Project's materials before submission.

Reuse of prompts by other users. Once your prompts are publicly visible on higgsfield.ai, you grant every registered higgsfield.ai user a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence to view, copy, adapt and use them solely to generate content on higgsfield.ai. The licence doesn’t extend to use on any other platform or service, or to redistributing the prompts commercially as a standalone product. No attribution is required, but it’s welcome. Your generations (video, image and audio outputs) aren’t licensed for reuse under this paragraph: reusing a prompt to make a new generation is allowed, but reproducing or building on another participant’s generation is not. Reusing a published prompt doesn’t by itself breach the originality warranty in Section 12, but it doesn’t protect an Entry that is substantially a copy of another Entry.

12. Your Warranties

By publishing a project, submitting an Entry or accepting a Grant, you represent and warrant that:

• the Entry is your (or your team's) original work, made during the Creation Window in accordance with Section 5, with any External Source Assets used only as Section 5.3 permits;
• you own, or hold sufficient rights to, every element of the Entry, including each External Source Asset, for use under these Rules and the licences in Section 11, and your use complies with the terms of any outside tools;
• all music, voices and dialogue are AI-generated as Section 5.5 requires, you have the rights to any non-AI sound effects, and you have kept information identifying the AI tool used to generate each External Source Asset;
• the Entry doesn't depict the likeness or reproduce the voice of any identifiable real person, contains nothing prohibited under Section 6, and violates no law or third-party right;
• you haven't manipulated engagement or votes, and you will use any Grant credits only for the project they were granted to; and
• everything you tell us is accurate.

You agree to indemnify and hold Higgsfield harmless from any third-party claim arising out of your Entry, your use of Grant credits, or your breach of these warranties.

Voters and reporters. By casting a vote or filing a Report, you represent and warrant only that you are eligible to vote under Section 9.3 (or, for a Report, that you hold a Higgsfield account in good standing), that you haven’t engaged in vote manipulation, and that you haven’t filed bad-faith or coordinated Reports. Voters aren’t responsible for the authorship of, or the rights in, any film they vote for. You agree to indemnify Higgsfield against third-party claims arising from your breach of these voter obligations.

13. Disputes Between Participants

Higgsfield doesn't mediate or decide disputes between participants, including claims that one Entry copies another, and isn't required to share any participant's materials with another, except as required by valid legal process. We may still disqualify an Entry at our discretion.

14. Platform Availability, Integrity and Changes

• Availability. We don't guarantee uninterrupted service. Individual technical problems don't extend deadlines. If a widespread failure materially affects participants' ability to generate or submit, we may extend the affected dates.
• Integrity. If fraud, technical failure, a legal change or other events outside our reasonable control compromise the Contest, we may suspend or adjust the affected part (for example, Audience Choice voting) to protect fairness, and we will aim to award prizes based on eligible Entries received.
• Changes. We may extend any date or finish judging early, but we'll never shorten the Creation Window or move a deadline earlier. After the Contest opens, we won't change these Rules to entrants' disadvantage, including the prize amounts, award categories, judging criteria and weights, engagement formula or Shortlist size, unless the law requires it or it's needed to protect the Contest's integrity. Changes will be posted on the Contest page.

15. Privacy and Publicity

The Privacy Policy applies to everything we collect for the Contest. We use registration details, project records, engagement and voting data, submission materials, and any identity, tax or payment documents to run, verify and judge the Contest, prevent fraud, contact you, pay prizes and meet legal obligations. We may share them with the jury and our service providers for these purposes.
Shortlisted entrants and winners agree that we may publish their name or username, creator name, country, likeness, Entry excerpts, placement and prize amount to announce results and promote the Contest and Higgsfield, without further compensation, except where prohibited by law.

16. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Higgsfield and its affiliates are not liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary or punitive damages arising out of or relating to the Contest. Higgsfield's total aggregate liability to any participant arising out of or relating to the Contest, regardless of the theory of liability, will not exceed ten thousand US dollars ($10,000 USD). Nothing in these Rules excludes or limits liability that can't be excluded or limited by law, and nothing in this Section limits Higgsfield's obligation to pay a prize duly awarded and verified under these Rules.

17. General

• Platforms. The Contest isn't sponsored, endorsed or run by, or associated with, Instagram, Meta, YouTube, Google or X, and you release each of them from all liability connected with it. You must follow each platform's terms.
• Governing law and disputes. These Rules and any dispute arising out of or relating to the Contest are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. Disputes will be resolved under the dispute resolution provisions of the Terms of Service, including its arbitration agreement and class action waiver, which are incorporated into these Rules by reference. For any matter not subject to arbitration, the state and federal courts in San Francisco, California, have exclusive jurisdiction, and each entrant consents to personal jurisdiction and venue there.
• Final authority. Higgsfield has full and final authority over the interpretation and implementation of these Rules and may update them, subject to Section 14. Material updates will be announced on the Contest page.
• Severability. If any provision of these Rules is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions stay in full force.
• Entire agreement. These Rules, Higgsfield's Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement for the Contest.
• Translations. These Rules may be translated for convenience. The English version controls.
• Contact. Questions about the Contest: https://discord.gg/U9q6r6UGWp

Thank you for being part of this. We can't wait to see what you make.