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The Netflix Prize (to go along with the Spock Challenge)
- rms 20y agoFor any companies with a specific, difficult technical CS challenge to be solved, sponsoring a contest seems to be a really cheap way to get great results.
- gyro_robo 20y agoRead the rules for both... For Netflix, it's a million bucks, and you grant them a non-exclusive license (meaning you let them do whatever they want with it, but you can, too). For Spock, it's $50k and you give them all the rights, solely and exclusively (meaning you can't use your own work anymore), PLUS permission to "use the winner's name, photograph, voice, biographical information, and likeness for promotional purposes in television, radio, Internet, and print advertising without further compensation or notice, except where prohibited by law." This is so open-ended, they could conceivably sell your likeness to Valtrex for billboards.