DawgTalkers.net Forums DawgTalk Tailgate Forum Anyone familiar with an Affidavit of Eligibility and Release?

I've asked a couple other people about this situation and have gotten indefinitive answers out of them, so I'll ask the board.

Awhile back I was visiting movie fan site and remember signing up for some kind of sweepstakes through a website called, www.gorillanation.com to win a copy of Tales from the darkside season 3. I figured at the time I would sign up because normally I don't ever win anything. So yesterday I recieved an email from someone telling me I had won(the email did look legit, had the guys contact information at the bottom and all). So there's an attachment affidavit for me to print out, scan, and send back to him. I'm guessing this is to verify my age and that I'm over 18, but after reading through it I discovered if I sign, I'm agreeing to give info like photo and driver's license.

"I hereby give my consent to the Sponser the use of my name, photograph, and likeness, any content submitted as part of the sweepstakes, city state, and blah, blah...........

Has anyone ever won an online contest and filled out one of these, is this normal?

Well, the use of your likeness, name, etc, is pretty normal.

They want to be able to advertise that you won their contest. (or part of it, as the case may be)

McDonalds does this a LOT when they have Monopoly and similar contests. You se tons of ads with pictures of happy winners .....

Now whether or not this site does use your likeness is up for debate. They might have found the nearest form that suited their needs and copied it off for their own use.

Ah okay I see what you are saying. I also did a google search about the form and there were at least 20 different printable PDF forms one could print off on the first page alone. I'm probably extra skeptical too, mainly just because I've never won anything before so it's kind of a surprise.

It's a standard C.Y.A. thing for them so that they can take a picture of you (if they so choose), put it on their site and say that tastybrownies won the contest... and you can't come back and sue them for unauthorized use of your likeness.