Copyright / Ownership

Entrants will be required to certify that they are the sole creators of their submissions and that they own, or have secured, all rights to all content contained in their video that has not been created by them.

The purpose of this video contest is to showcase an important climate change issue in a way that is educational, change-inducing, and respectful. We strongly discourage films that seek to identify specific individuals or organizations as agents of, or make claims they are culpable for, climate change. Any footage or voice recording of identifiable individuals or corporate representatives must be obtained with full, written consent of the identified party—except in cases where those individuals appear in public and cannot have a reasonable expectation of privacy.

All relevant legislation concerning copyright, licensing and defamation must be observed; the Kimberley Foundation bears no legal responsibility for any violations of law committed during the making of the films.

We have endeavoured to provide you with some resources to assist you with potential copypright issues on our website on the Forms page. You may also find YouTube’s website on copyright to be helpful. If you are looking to add music to the video, you may be able to use older music (generally pre 1922 in the public domain) or some royalty-free music. The latter still likely requires a license but some websites have made this easy. Check out the Tubular Insights website for details.

There may be music and image websites that allow you to use previously recorded music to create your own music loops or use creative commons images which allow you to use their components or images without any copyright issues.  GarageBand for music is one such software that you can use (we have verified this with Apple) to create your own music loops and these can be embedded in your video.  If you choose this route, please still ensure you give credit to GarageBand in your credits and references.  There may be similar opportunities for using pre-taken images from creative commons image providers, but do check the copyright rules carefully. And always make sure that you still give credit properly.

All students will be required to submit a variety of signed forms attesting to originality, parental or guardian consent for secondary school students and minors, actor consents, and protection of privacy and use of video consent forms.

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