Thank you for organizing this! I have two questions. First, is there any update regarding when the official announcement will be made? Second, will essays submitted to other competitions, or for publication, be eligible? In other other words, is there any risk that submitting research elsewhere prior to the announcement of the competition will render it ineligible for the competition?
We plan to officially launch the contest sometime in Q1 2023, so end of March at the latest.
I asked our in-house counsel about the eligibility of essays submitted to other competitions/publications, and he said it depends on whether by submitting elsewhere you’ve forfeited your ability to grant Open Phil a license to use the essay. His full quote below:
Essays submitted to other competitions or for publication are eligible for submission, so long as the entrant is able to grant Open Phil a license to use the essay. Since we plan to use these essays to inform our future research and grantmaking, we need a license to be able to use the IP. Our contest rules will state that by submitting an entry, each entrant grants a license to Open Phil to use the entry to further our mission. If you had previously submitted an essay to another contest or for publication, you should check the terms and conditions of that contest/publication to confirm they do not now have exclusive rights to the work or in any way prohibit you from granting a license to someone else to use it.
Thank you for organizing this! I have two questions. First, is there any update regarding when the official announcement will be made? Second, will essays submitted to other competitions, or for publication, be eligible? In other other words, is there any risk that submitting research elsewhere prior to the announcement of the competition will render it ineligible for the competition?
Thanks for your questions!
We plan to officially launch the contest sometime in Q1 2023, so end of March at the latest.
I asked our in-house counsel about the eligibility of essays submitted to other competitions/publications, and he said it depends on whether by submitting elsewhere you’ve forfeited your ability to grant Open Phil a license to use the essay. His full quote below:
Thanks for a great answer! That’s very helpful.
Hello, checking in on any updates to the Open Phil contest. I look forward to submitting an entry soon!
We are just ironing out the final legal details. The official announcement will hopefully go live by the end of next week. Thanks for checking!