ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

1. I hereby represent and warrant that I meet all of the following eligibility requirements:

 

(i)(a) I am at least 18 years old and I have the full, complete and unrestricted right and authority to enter into any agreements or releases required for America’s Got Talent (“the “Program”); or (b) if I am under 18 years of age and I have been legally emancipated, I will provide certified court documents establishing my status as an emancipated minor; or (c) if I am under 18 years of age and I have not been legally emancipated, my parent or legal guardian will provide a picture identification and proof of their relationship to me (e.g., driver’s license or passport and a birth certificate, guardianship papers, school records, etc.) and will sign various documents related to the Program upon Marathon Production Inc.’s ("Producer’s”) request, including, but not limited to documents granting his/her consent to my participation in the Program and releasing and indemnifying Producer and the Released Parties (as defined below). I understand that my parent or legal guardian (or a person designated by my parent or legal guardian) will be required to accompany me at all times during my participation in the Program.

 

(ii) I am either (i) a United States citizen; (ii) a legal permanent resident of the United States; or (iii) am in the United States legally at the time of my initial audition and I understand and agree that I will be required to have appropriate visa status in the United States that allows me to compete on the Program prior to live shows. I have listed below the names of everyone I know, including but not limited to everybody in my immediate family, who is, or has been in the past two years, an officer, employee, agent, contractor, officer, director or representative of any of the following: (a) Producer, FremantleMedia North America, Inc., or any of their respective parent, subsidiary, affiliated or related entities, or any of their respective licensees, successors and assigns; (b) Maidmetal Limited (“Maidmetal”), or any of its parent, subsidiary, affiliated or related entities (including but not limited to Syco Entertainment Inc.), or any of their respective licensees, successors and assigns (c) NBCUniversal and one or more of the television networks or platforms of NBCUniversal (“Network”), any television network or station owned, operated by or affiliated with and/ or any of their respective parent, subsidiary, affiliated or related entities, or any of their respective licensees, successors or assigns; (d) any television station or channel, cable network, or satellite network that may air or otherwise exhibit the Program or any variation thereof; (e) any person or entity involved in the development, production, distribution or other exploitation of the Program or any variation thereof; (f) any sponsor of the Program (including, but not limited to Sonic) or its or their advertising agency; or (g) any person or entity supplying services or prizes to the Program. The entities described in the preceding sentence shall be referred to herein, individually and collectively, as the “Producer Entities”.

 

Producer, Maidmetal, and/or Network reserve the right to remove from the Program any person (including any member of the Act) Producer, Maidmetal, and/or Network determines, in their sole discretion, is sufficiently connected with the Program or any of the Producer Entities such that such person’s participation in the Program could create the appearance of impropriety. Conversely, Producer, Maidmetal and/or Network reserve the right to allow any person to remain part of the Program who may have a connection with the Program or any of the Producer Entities if, in Producer’s, Maidmetal’s and/or Network’s sole discretion, they determine that such person’s involvement in the Program does not and will not affect the integrity of the Program. I will immediately notify Producer if any of my relatives, friends or acquaintances appear in or is in any other way involved in the production of the Program.

 

(iii) I am not currently a candidate for public office, and if selected to participate in the Program, I agree that I will not become a candidate for public office until at least one (1) year after the initial broadcast of the final episode of the Program in which I appear. If there is any change in this representation prior to the initial exhibition of the Program in which I appear, I will immediately notify Network at [email protected]. Becoming a candidate before or around the time of the initial exhibition of the Program may under certain circumstances have legal implications on the exhibitor’s ability to exhibit the Program.

 

I understand and agree that Producer, Maidmetal, and Network have the sole discretion to make determinations of eligibility, and that they reserve the right to change any of the eligibility requirements at any time.