[cc-community] CC-licensed video contest on information sharing -- win $1, 000

Elizabeth Stark estark at law.harvard.edu
Thu Jul 26 19:21:17 EDT 2007


Are you requiring that people use certain CC licenses? If so, I think
that would be relevant information.

On 7/26/07, Gavin Baker <gavin at arl.org> wrote:
> CALL FOR ENTRIES
>
> SPARC Announces Mind Mashup:
> A Video Contest to Showcase Student Views on Information Sharing
>
> Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales and Documentary Filmmaker Peter Wintonick
> Among Judges Selecting $1,000 Prize Winner
>
> Washington, DC - July 25, 2007 - SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and
> Academic Resources Coalition) today announced the launch of the first
> annual SPARC Discovery Awards, a contest to promote the open exchange
> of information. Mind Mashup, the theme of the 2007 contest, calls on
> entrants to illustrate in a short video the importance of sharing
> ideas and information of all kinds. Mashup is an expression referring
> to a song, video, Web site or software application that combines
> content from more than one source.
>
> Consistent with SPARC's mission as an international alliance of
> academic and research libraries promoting the benefits of information
> sharing, the contest encourages new voices to join the public
> discussion of information policy in the Internet age. Designed for
> adoption as a college or high school class assignment, the SPARC
> Discovery Awards are open to anyone over the age of 15.
>
> Contestants are asked to submit videos of two minutes or less that
> imaginatively show the benefits of bringing down barriers to the open
> exchange of information. Submissions will be judged by a panel that
> includes:
>
> Aaron Delwiche, Assistant Professor in the Department of
> Communication at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas
> José-Marie Griffiths, Professor & Dean at the School of Information
> and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
> Rick Johnson, communications consultant and founding director of SPARC
> Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC
> Karen Rustad, president of Free Culture 5C and a senior at Scripps
> College majoring in media studies
> Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia
> Peter Wintonick, award-winning documentary filmmaker and principal of
> Necessary Illusions Productions Inc.
>
> "I'm very proud to be judging this contest," said Karen Rustad. "When
> it comes to debates over Internet information policy, students are
> usually subjects for study or an object for concern. I can't wait to
> see what my contemporaries have to say about mashup culture and open
> access to information once they're given the mike -- or, rather, the
> camera."
>
> The contest takes as its inspiration a quote from George Bernard
> Shaw: "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these
> apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have
> an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of
> us will have two ideas."
>
> Submissions must be received by December 2, 2007. Winners - including
> a first-place winner and two runners up - will be announced in
> January 2008. The winner will receive $1,000 and a "Sparky Award."
> The runners up will each receive $500. Winning entries will be
> publicly screened at the American Library Association Midwinter
> Conference in January 2008 in Philadelphia and will be prominently
> featured in SPARC's international advocacy and campus education
> activities.
>
> For further details, please see the contest Web site at http://
> sparkyawards.org.
>
> SPARC
>
> SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), with
> SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan, is an international alliance of more
> than 800 academic and research libraries working to create a more
> open system of scholarly communication. SPARC is a founding member of
> the Alliance for Taxpayer Access, a coalition of patient, academic,
> research, and publishing organizations that supports open public
> access to the results of federally funded research - including
> research funded by the National Institutes of Health. SPARC is on the
> Web at http://www.arl.org/sparc/.
>
> --
> Gavin Baker
> Intern
> Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
> 21 Dupont Circle NW, Suite 800
> Washington, DC 20036
> USA
> tel: +1 (202) 296-2296 x116
> fax: +1 (202) 872-0884
> gavin at arl.org
>
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