Please read the following
• The 3MT®must represent the original research of the competitor
• The authors of the 3MT®will retain all rights regarding its use at all times prior to and following the competition except as stated below
• Due to the nature of the competition, we will not ask judges, reviewers, staff or the audience to agree to or sign non-disclosure statements for any participant
• All public sessions of the competition, including but not limited to oral presentations, are open to the public at large. Any and all of these public sessions may be broadcast to interested persons through media which may include the Internet
• Any data or information discussed or divulged in public sessions by entrants should be considered information that will likely enter the public realm, and entrants should not assume any right of confidentiality in any data or information discussed, divulged or presented in these sessions. This means, if your research includes commercial-in-confidence or culturally sensitive material you should think very carefully about how you can present this information. We advise that you discuss you competition entry with the parties/s before entering the 3MT®
• Brigham Young University and the 3 Minute Thesis Competition may make photocopies, photographs, videotapes and/or audiotapes of the presentations or material prepared for use in presentation at the 3MT®
• The University may use the materials in any book or other printed materials and any videotape or other medium that it may produce, provided that any profits earned from the sale of such items is used by the University solely to defray the costs of future 3 Minute Thesis Competitions
• Presenters must obtain permission to use anything that is not their own (e.g. an image, graph etc.) prior to competing in their heat
(Based on and Adapted from University of Melbourne (
http://gradresearch.unimelb.edu.au/docs/3mt/3MT_Information_Pack.pdf)
