DSLR short film contest

Hey all,

I got this today as part of one of my mailing lists. (I am not affiliated in any way, just passing along)

I know this will interest some of you.

http://www.dailyfilm.tv/festivals/dailyfil...rt-film-contest

Good Luck

Just realized I put this in the totally wrong forum, Please move...

Hey all,

I got this today as part of one of my mailing lists. (I am not affiliated in any way, just passing along)

I know this will interest some of you.

 

http://www.dailyfilm.tv/festivals/dailyfil...rt-film-contest

 

Good Luck

Just FYI. I read the contest rules. Not sure if I like this part or not.

All Videos becomes the property of Sponsor and will not be returned. Videos may be published on Sponsor’s Website during and after the Contest Promotion Period. As a condition of entry, Entrants grant Sponsor a perpetual, royalty-free, fully-paid, non-exclusive, limited license (with the right to sublicense, use, broadcast, copy, edit, modify, make available and distribute) Videos or any content therein and any application or code in connection with the operation, conduct, administration, advertising and promotion of the Contest via communication to the public, including, but not limited to the right to make screenshots, animations and video clips available to the public for promotional and publicity purposes.

Compared to the wetpixel/divephotoguide competitions (which rightly allow the photographers/videographers to maintain the rights), this seems like a little much to me!

I'm not entering, so I didn't read the rules. I don't like that either and probably wouldn't do it even if I could.

Just FYI. I read the contest rules. Not sure if I like this part or not.

 

All Videos becomes the property of Sponsor and will not be returned. Videos may be published on Sponsor’s Website during and after the Contest Promotion Period. As a condition of entry, Entrants grant Sponsor a perpetual, royalty-free, fully-paid, non-exclusive, limited license (with the right to sublicense, use, broadcast, copy, edit, modify, make available and distribute) Videos or any content therein and any application or code in connection with the operation, conduct, administration, advertising and promotion of the Contest via communication to the public, including, but not limited to the right to make screenshots, animations and video clips available to the public for promotional and publicity purposes.

 

 

Compared to the wetpixel/divephotoguide competitions (which rightly allow the photographers/videographers to maintain the rights), this seems like a little much to me!

They probably want to cover for the possible eventuality of coverage of the contest via TV/Web newscast excerpts which would need short clips from the short films. The price isn't all that interesting and what I find more interesting is the way they limit creativity:

Videos that are libelous, defamatory, indecent, vulgar or obscene, pornographic, sexually explicit or sexually suggestive, racially, culturally, or ethnically offensive, harmful, harassing, intimidating, threatening, hateful, objectionable, discriminatory, or abusive, disparaging of the Sponsor or otherwise contains objectionable material may be disqualified in the Sponsor's sole and absolute discretion.