Free Culture presents: Down with DRM Video Contest
September 15th, 2006 by Elizabeth Stark
Enter the Down with DRM video contest for a chance to win a Neuros OSD – a portable digital VCR! (Thanks jborn.)
Joining in Oct 3rd – Day Against DRM, Free Culture will select the 5 best anti-DRM video entries and award a Neuros OSD to each creator. DefectiveByDesign.org is also looking to air selected anti-DRM videos on their website during the week of October 3rd, and we want to give them a hand.
Here are the official rules to enter Free Culture’s Down with DRM Video Contest:
- Deadline for submissions: Sunday, October 1 at 11:59pm EDT
- Criteria for video:
- Anti-DRM themed
- Short
- Video, animation, or remix
- Make it catchy — we want these videos to be viral
- Please submit your video to the online video sharing network(s) that you prefer. Here are some examples:
- Please tag your video with “downwithdrm” and “dbdoct3″so that people can search for it.
- Preference will be given to submissions under free content licenses such as Creative Commons BY-SA, BY, PD, or the Free Art license.
- E-mail downwithdrm@freeculture.org with a link to your video by October 1 at 11:59pm EDT.
- Free Culture will select the top 5 entries and award the winners with a Neuros OSD (one per video).
UPDATE: We have announced the winners of the contest!
September 16th, 2006 at 1:38 pm
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September 16th, 2006 at 6:01 pm
By “short,†I’m guessing no longer than eight to ten minutes, right?
September 16th, 2006 at 6:21 pm
LividFiction, we purposely didn’t specify a time limit–so if you really want to make a full-length feature film about why DRM sucks you could, but yeah, less than 10 minutes would probably be best. Most of those viral videos don’t seem to last more than 3 or 4 minutes…
September 17th, 2006 at 3:20 am
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September 17th, 2006 at 1:51 pm
[...] LinkAwesom anti-DRM banners from Militant Geek [...]
September 19th, 2006 at 1:52 am
Thanks for putting this contest together and thanks for the promotion of the OSD! We’re glad to be a part of this, and please let us know of the winners, we’d like to promote them on our blog as well
September 19th, 2006 at 11:33 am
[...] Wir haben von unseren amerikanischen Kollegen erfahren dass Freeculture.org anlässlich des “Day against DRM” von DefectiveByDesign.org einen Videowettbewerb ausgerufen hat. Wir hoffen auf eine Rege Teilnahme, natürlich gibt es auch etwas zu gewinnen. Einen Neuros OSD – ein portabler, digitaler VCR! Einsendeschluss ist der 1. Oktober. Hier noch ein paar Infos dazu auf Englisch Enter the Down with DRM video contest for a chance to win a Neuros OSD – a portable digital VCR! Joining in Oct 3rd – Day Against DRM, Free Culture will select the 5 best anti-DRM video entries and award a Neuros OSD to each creator. DefectiveByDesign.org is also looking to air selected anti-DRM videos on their website during the week of October 3rd, and we want to give them a hand. [...]
September 25th, 2006 at 9:37 am
[...] Freeculture.org is also organizing a video contest ‘Down with DRM‘ where you can even win a Neuros OSD! [...]
September 29th, 2006 at 9:53 pm
[...] Talk by IT security expert Jordan Wiens Tuesday, 6:30 pm CSE E221 Jordan is a network security engineer for the University of Florida and was a member of the winning Capture the Flag team at this year’s DEFCON hacker convention. Jordan will lead a discussion about DRM. We’ll also screen some videos from FreeCulture.org’s “Down With DRM” video contest. Free and open to the public. [...]
October 3rd, 2006 at 4:25 am
[...] Digital Rights Management is een techniek die de muziek- en filmindustrie gebruiken om ervoor te zorgen dat je niet zomaar kopieen kunt maken. Tegenstanders van DRM spreken liever van ‘digital restrictions management’. Muziek en films die zijn beschermd met DRM, kun je vaak maar op een beperkt aantal apparaten afspelen: een klap in het gezicht voor de consument die netjes heeft betaald. Om de aandacht te vestigen op de nadelen van DRM is 3 oktober uitgeroepen tot Anti-DRM Dag. Defective by Design besteedt uitgebreid aandacht aan alle protestacties. Freeculture.org heeft een wedstrijd georganiseerd voor de beste anti-DRM-video. [...]
October 4th, 2006 at 5:16 am
[...] Free Culture Society – Down with DRM [...]
October 4th, 2006 at 8:37 am
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October 12th, 2006 at 11:55 pm
[...] Freeculture.org is pleased to announce the contest winners for our Down with DRM video contest. We had a lot of great entries, and want to thank *all* of the participants for their submissions. They’ve all contributed greatly to raising awareness in the fight against DRM. [...]
October 13th, 2006 at 10:35 am
[...] The winners of freeculture.org’s Down With DRM contest have been announced! These are my two personal favourites: [...]
October 14th, 2006 at 8:18 am
[...] Im Videocontest “Down with DRM” der Initiative freeculture.org wurden die Gewinner gekürt. Die Filmchen setzen sich mit dem Theme Digital Rights Management auseinander und können u.a. auf YouTube betrachtet werden. [...]
October 14th, 2006 at 1:16 pm
[...] En freeculture.org han organizado un concurso de vÃdeos que sirvan para ilustra sobre los peligros del DRM. Ya se conocen los ganadores: [...]
October 18th, 2006 at 6:02 pm
[...] En este contexto, los inquietos chicos de FreeCulture.com organizaron un concurso de videos al que denominaron Down with DRM en el que se pusiera en evidencia los problemas detrás de la existencia de los sistemas de protección de gestión de derechos digitales. [...]
October 18th, 2006 at 8:55 pm
[...] Ya han anunciado los ganadores del concuro Down with DRM organizado por la web [http://freeculture.org]. Si no sabéis que es, leedlo en la Wikipedia. [...]
November 5th, 2006 at 7:43 am
[...] Unter dem Titel Down With DRM hatte Free Culture hat einen Video-Wettbewerb ausgeschrieben, um die Probleme und Gefahren des Digital Rights Management (DRM) aufzuzeigen. Die Gewinner stehen jetzt fest: [...]
January 13th, 2007 at 6:41 am
[...] E intanto sono stati dichiarati i vincitori del video contest Down With DRM. I video, rilasciati tutti con licenze Creative Commons differenti a seconda dell’autore, sono elencati qui e riceveranno in premio un dispositivo Neuros OSD installato con software libero. Alla manifestazione ha contribuito Defective By Design, la campagna anti-DRM di Free Software Foundation. [...]
May 6th, 2007 at 9:44 am
Cool, I am assuming that anyone can enter and that there are no restrictions on what kind of anti-drm video can be made?
July 9th, 2007 at 10:03 am
f–k DRM music, start you own music exchange –> http://www.mxchg.com
Do you already have one running…mail me, we can connect :)
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:16 am
[...] on this “Day Against DRM” and noticed that folks at Free Culture had just concluded their video contest for the best anti-DRM video independently produced and distributed under a Creative Commons [...]
April 12th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
[...] cavate con la videocamera? Volete contribuire creativamente alla campagna anti-DRM? Ecco allora il concorso giusto: una breve filmato o animazione, o anche un remix, sui temi di tale campagna, che sia accattivante [...]
September 8th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
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September 9th, 2008 at 12:33 am
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December 3rd, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Important to note that two of these sites, Revver and YouTube, deliver videos within Flash Player that makes it difficult to duplicate and to reuse the video content there. Indeed, YouTube’s terms of service (Section 5, Your Use of Content on the Site) specifically denies users from downloading and modifying the video content. Beyond this technological limitation, the videos encoded in Mpeg or Quicktime require patent-licensed technologies to decode. These are technological and legal DRM, in the sense they both restrict the digital use of the media. Consider the Xiph.org Foundation’s framework of Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, and Theora, instead.
November 22nd, 2009 at 12:37 am
Always great to see such contest, that let people say what they really think, what they would like to see on the plate in the future. Always hungry for more quality content, sometime great ideas like this can show the world how much we care. The glass isn’t always half empty!
November 28th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
And I thought I knew everything there was to know about this subject…well, now I do – nice post. See ya, Mabel Clerk @ tinypocketpeople