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About Blue Scholars

Blue Scholars have emerged out of the erupting Northwest hip-hop scene with soulful beats, poetic yet political rhymes and a reputation for dynamic live performances. With two full length albums and 3 EPs, the group has become one of the top West Coast independent hip hop acts, known for their energetic and always entertaining live shows and a world view that blends the personal and the political, but unafraid to party in the process.

Emcee Geologic and DJ/producer Sabzi come from vastly different musical approaches to experiment with a unique, new sound that still echoes the classic boom-bap of a bygone era (see: A Tribe Called Quest, Digable Planets). Prior to their collision, Geo had already begun making local rounds as a battle emcee and spoken-word poet, while Sabzi honed his skills as a classical and jazz-trained pianist while attending indie ska and punk shows. This unlikely partnership set the precedent for what distinguishes the group from the vast sea of independent hip-hop artists - the ability to strike a balance between worlds usually seen distant from one another. Poetic lyricism with beats you can dance to. Marxist theory mixed with Baha'i spirituality. Musical influences ranging from Thelonius Monk and Aphex Twin to Marvin Gaye and J Dilla.

Armed with a purpose beyond creating music for music's sake, Blue Scholars take the classic form of the emcee/DJ duo (Gangstarr, Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Eric B. & Rakim) while carrying the essence of militant, yet personal struggle shown by hip-hop luminaries such as Public Enemy and KRS-One.

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Official Contest Rules

JAMGLUE AND DUCK DOWN RECORDS
BLUE SCHOLARS "HI-808" REMIX CONTEST

OFFICIAL RULES

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN THIS CONTEST.  A PURCHASE WILL
NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.

These Official Rules ("Rules") govern a contestant's (hereinafter
"You" or "Your") participation in the Blue Scholars "HI-808" Remix
Contest ("Contest").  Participation in the Contest constitutes Your
full and unconditional agreement to and acceptance of these Rules as
well as the Jamglue Terms of Service posted at
http://www.jamglue.com/help/terms_of_service; so it is important that
You read both items and understand them before participating.

1. Sponsors: The Contest is sponsored and run by Jamglue Inc.
("Jamglue"), headquartered at 1919 Biltmore St. NW #2, Washington, DC
20009 USA, ph. (206) 801-0836 and Duck Down Records ("Duck Down"),
headquartered at 341 Lafayette Street, Suite 571, New York, NY 10012.

2. Entry Period: The Contest will commence at approximately 11:00 p.m.
Pacific Time, September 8, 2009, and end at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time,
October 11, 2009.

3. Who is Eligible?  The Contest is offered only to natural persons
older than 13 years of age as of the date of entry.  Contestants under
the age of majority in their jurisdiction of residence are required to
have their parent or legal guardian's permission to enter as described
below.  Employees, independent contractors, officers, and directors of
Sponsors, their respective shareholders, agents, representatives,
affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising, promotion and fulfillment
agencies, and legal advisors ("Sponsors' Parties"), and the immediate
family members and persons living in the same household of Sponsors'
Parties, are not eligible to participate in the Contest.  Void where
prohibited by law.  Participation by any person from a country where
trade, dealings, financial transactions, travel or other commercial
activities are prohibited under the laws of the United States of
America is strictly prohibited.

4. How to Enter: The Sponsors are offering You the chance to engage in
a creative dialogue with Duck Down Records recording artist Blue
Scholars ("Artist").  You may enter the Contest by creating a custom
remix (a "Remix") from the portions of the sound recording "HI-808"
(the "Remix Tracks") made available at
http://www.jamglue.com/contests/bluescholars.  Your Remix may be made
locally on Your own computer or on the Jamglue website (the
"Website"), but must be uploaded and/or published on the Website by
the close of the Entry Period.

Any person or group may enter as many Remixes as desired, but such
person or group is only eligible for one prize.

Your Remix may include music You create yourself, material in the
public domain, and material You have express permission to use and
license in accordance with Section 6 of these Rules.  Notwithstanding
the preceding sentence, You may not create a Remix that contains any
viruses, worms, spyware, Trojan horses, malware, or other computer
programming routines that may damage or detrimentally interfere with
any computer or other device.  In addition, Your Remix may not include
content that is obscene, crude, vulgar, or which contains offensive
language, promotion of commercial products, personal information,
derogatory characterizations of any ethnic, racial, sexual or
religious groups, or any other material considered inappropriate,
unsuitable or offensive, as determined by the Sponsors and Artist, in
their sole and absolute discretion.

Sponsors reserve the right to evaluate each Remix's eligibility under
the Rules as well as for compliance with the U.S. Copyright Act and
any and all other applicable laws.  Remixes may be removed from the
Website and disqualified from the Contest at the discretion of the
Sponsors.

IF YOUR REMIX CONTAINS INAPPROPRIATE, UNSUITABLE OR OFFENSIVE CONTENT
OR CONTENT THAT YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO USE, YOUR REMIX WILL BE
AUTOMATICALLY DISQUALIFIED BY THE SPONSORS AND NOT CONSIDERED BY THE
JUDGES.

The Website, the Contest and the Remix Tracks are controlled and
offered by Jamglue from Jamglue's facilities in the United States of
America.  Jamglue makes no representations that the Website, the
Contest, the Remix Tracks or any Remixes are appropriate or available
for use in other locations, and access to the Website, the Remix
Tracks, and any Remixes and participation in the Contest in any
territory where such access or participation is illegal is prohibited.
 Those who access the Website and participate in the Contest do so at
their own risk subject to the Jamglue Terms of Service and these
Rules.

5. License to Remix Tracks.  You acknowledge and agree that the Remix
Tracks are licensed for use solely under the Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license (available at:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/legalcode), and that
all rights that are not expressly granted under this license are
reserved by Duck Down Records.  You further acknowledge and agree that
You must and will attribute Blue Scholars and Duck Down Records
whenever You use Remix Tracks for any purpose, using the following
language - "Remix using elements from Blue Scholars/Duck Down Records"
- but not in such a way as to imply any endorsement, approval or
affiliation with or by Blue Scholars or Duck Down Records.

6. What others may do with your remix(es): By submitting an eligible
Remix for the Contest during the Entry Period, You acknowledge and
agree that Your Remix will be made available to the general public
from the Website and is licensed to Jamglue pursuant to Jamglue's
Terms of Service http://www.jamglue.com/help/terms_of_service and
licensed to the rest of the world, including, but not limited to,
Duck Down, Artist and other users of the Website, under the Creative
Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license available at:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/legalcode.

Sponsors, or their representatives, may modify or edit winning Remixes
to ensure audio quality or for any other purpose that Sponsors deem
necessary or desirable.

7. Representations and warranties made by You: By submitting a Remix,
You represent and warrant that: (i) any non-Remix Track content in
your Remix is owned by You, licensed to you by the copyright owner of
such content, or is otherwise used pursuant to law; (ii) You are
authorized to reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, and create
derivative works of such non-Remix Track content for the uses
contemplated in these Rules; (iii) your Remix does not contain any
viruses, worms, spyware, Trojan horses, malware, or other computer
programming routines that may damage or detrimentally interfere with
any computer or other device; (iv) Your Remix does not include any
content that is obscene, crude, vulgar, or which contains offensive
language, promotion of commercial products, personal information,
derogatory characterizations of any ethnic, racial, sexual or
religious groups, or any other inappropriate, unsuitable or offensive
material; (v) Your Remix does not defame any third party or violate
the intellectual property rights or other rights, including the rights
of privacy and publicity, of any third party; and (vi) you are
authorized and hereby do authorize the use of Your Remix under the
Jamglue Terms of Service http://www.jamglue.com/help/terms_of_service
and the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5
license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/

8. No royalties: By submitting a Remix to the Contest, You acknowledge
and agree that You will receive no royalties from Jamglue for any use
of Your Remix pursuant to the Jamglue Terms of Service, or from the
Sponsors, Artist, other contestants, or members of the general public
who use Your Remix consistent with the Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license.

9. Prizes: One (1) Grand Prize winner and four (4) Runners Up will be
determined by the criteria outlined in Section 10.

Grand Prize - one (1) Grand Prize will be awarded, consisting of (i)
OOF! Package including the digital OOF! EP and signed physical copy,
Angry Woebots designed T-Shirt and Art Print Poster, and a digital
download of the Hi-808 music video.  (iv) the winning remix will be
featured on DUCKDOWN.COM and Blue Scholars' MySpace.  The approximate
retail value ("ARV") of the Grand Prize is $47.98 (USD).

Runners up - four (4) Runners Up will each receive an award consisting
of (i) one (1) autographed OOF! EP and (ii) one (1) Jamglue prize pack
containing ten (10) Jamglue stickers and one (1) Jamglue T-shirt.  The
ARV of a Runners Up prize is $34.98 (USD).

All prize expenses and/or services not specified herein are not
included and are the sole responsibility of the winners.  No
alternative prize, cash equivalent, or other substitution is permitted
except by Sponsors, at Sponsors' sole discretion, in the event of
prize unavailability.  Prizes are nontransferable.  All federal,
provincial, state and/or local taxes are the sole responsibility of
the winners.  Prizes may be subject to export control limitations and
restrictions and Sponsors shall have no liability to any winner to
whom a prize may not be delivered under applicable laws and
regulations.  No alternative prizes will be awarded to any person to
whom a prize may not be given.

10. Judging: Blue Scholars will listen to the entries and personally
choose one (1) Grand Prize winner.  The four (4) Runners Up will be
the four (4) Remixes with the most votes, determined by the number of
Jamglue users who called the Remix "A Favorite," subject to contest
eligibility.  All votes must be cast by 11:59pm Pacific Time, October
25, 2009.

All grading decisions are final.  Sponsors reserve the right,
individually and collectively, to disqualify any Remix that is, in the
Sponsors' joint or sole discretion, inappropriate, offensive or
demeaning to the Sponsors' reputation or goodwill or the reputation
and goodwill of the Artist, or contrary to the Sponsors' mission or
these Rules.  Once the grading of the Remixes has been completed, the
Sponsors will notify the winners via email and Jamglue private message
using the information submitted by the entrants in their Jamglue user
profile.  If a winner fails to respond within fourteen (14) days of
the date of the notification, that winner will be disqualified and the
next highest scoring Remix will be selected as an alternate winner and
notified according to this procedure.

11. Issues of law: All federal, state and local laws and regulations
are applicable.  THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURTS (LOCAL AND FEDERAL)
WILL HAVE SOLE JURISDICTION OF ANY CONTROVERSIES REGARDING THE
CONTEST, AND THE LAWS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA WILL EXCLUSIVELY
GOVERN THE CONTEST, WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO ANY CHOICE OF LAW OR
CONFLICT OF LAW RULES OR PROVISIONS.  EACH ENTRANT WAIVES ANY AND ALL
OBJECTIONS TO JURISDICTION AND VENUE IN THE FEDERAL AND LOCAL COURTS
IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND HEREBY SUBMITS TO THE JURISDICTION OF
THOSE COURTS.  The Contest is void where prohibited.

12. Release of Sponsors from any and all liability: By visiting the
Website, downloading or using any Remix Tracks, or participating in
the Contest, You agree that the Sponsors are not responsible or liable
for, and are released and held harmless from any and all liability,
for loss, harm, damage, injury, cost or expense whatsoever, including,
without limitation, (i) telephone, electronic, hardware or software
program, network, Internet, or computer malfunctions, failures, or
difficulties of any kind; (ii) any condition caused by events beyond
the control of Sponsors that may cause the Contest to be disrupted or
corrupted; (iii) any printing or typographical errors in any materials
associated with the Contest; (iv) any and all losses, damages, rights,
claims and actions of any kind in connection with or resulting from
any Remix Tracks or participation in the Contest or acceptance of any
prize, including, without limitation, personal injury, death, and
property damage, and claims based on publicity rights, defamation, or
invasion of privacy.  Sponsors reserve the right, in their sole
discretion, to suspend or cancel the Contest at any time if a computer
virus, bug, or other technical problem corrupts the administration,
security, or proper conduct of the Contest.

13. Winners List/Official Rules: A copy of these Rules and a winners
list may be obtained by sending an email request to info@jamglue.com.
Requests for a winners list must be received by December 1, 2009.

14. Privacy: By entering into this Contest You consent to the
disclosure of Your name to the judges and on a publicly available
winners list, if you are selected as a winner, and any other use of
Your name as may be authorized in the Jamglue Privacy Policy available
at: http://www.jamglue.com/help/privacy_policy regarding use of all
material entered and/or submitted for this Contest or otherwise
collected by the Jamglue site.

15. DMCA Compliance: Jamglue complies with the provisions of the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA").  In compliance with the
DMCA, a Designated Agent has been established with proper
documentation sent to the U.S. Copyright Office.  If you have a
concern regarding the use of copyrighted material on the Jamglue site,
please contact the agent designated to respond to reports alleging
copyright infringement.  The designated agent for Jamglue to receive
notification of claimed infringement on the Website is:

Gautam Jayaraman
copyright@jamglue.com
1919 Biltmore St NW #2
Washington, DC 20009
Tel: 1-206-801-0836
Fax: 1-801-998-3319