2023 Requirements for Virtual Competition
UPDATE: Entries due by 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time on June 10, 2023. Winners will be announced on July 8, 2023 at the IN-PERSON event.
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN.
By participating in this Contest, each participant agrees to be bound by these Official Rules and to the decisions of the judges selected by Common Ground on the Hill, which are final and binding on all matters relating to the Contest. The Contest will operate as described below:
- There is NO FEE to register or to compete.
- In order to keep everyone safe during the COVID-19 crisis, this year's competition will include solo performances only.
ELIGIBILITY
- Common Ground on the Hill staff members, members of the Common Ground on the Hill Board of Directors, Deer Creek Fiddlers' Convention judges', and their immediate family members are not eligible to participate in this contest.
- Traditions Weeks instructors who receive honoraria are NOT considered employees of Common Ground on the Hill, and ARE eligible to participate.
- Each Entrant must be the rightful owner of the e-mail address registered with the YouTube account used to log in and upload the video.
Entry constitutes each Entrant’s certification that the Entrant meets the eligibility requirements set forth in these Official Rules. Exception for Young Performer contestants or those without access to the internet, who may use a YouTube account registered to a parent or their music instructor.
Videos must:
- Be created specifically for the Contest.
- Be a maximum of 4 minutes for one continuous piece of music. The piece may be a medley. Points will be deducted for taking more than 4 minutes.
- Comply with YouTube terms of service and specifications for user submissions and/or video uploads, located at http://www.youtube.com/t/terms, or as may otherwise be posted on YouTube’s website.
Videos must NOT:
- Contain material that violates or infringes another’s rights, including, but not limited to, material that violates privacy, publicity, or intellectual property rights, or that constitutes copyright or trademark infringement;
- Include third parties, including but not limited to minors, celebrities, and friends who have not expressly authorized Entrant to display their image, likeness, or voice in any submitted Video or otherwise use such image, likeness, or voice in accordance with these Official Rules.
Performance Requirements:
- Individuals must fill out a separate registration for each performance category in which they are competing. Individuals may compete once in no more than three (3) categories.
- Contestants in the various categories of individual competition (including vocal) may have one backup instrument in addition to their own. NOTE: Backup instruments are not required. Vocalists may perform a cappella and will receive full consideration by the judges. Vocalists may enter the individual category only as soloists.
Virtual Competition Categories:
- Banjo
- Fiddle
- Guitar
- Mandolin
- Special Instrument (all instruments other than those listed above)
- Vocal
- Young Performer (ages 12 and under)
GRANT OF RIGHTS
In consideration of an Entrant's Video being reviewed and evaluated for this Contest, each Entrant hereby grants to Common Ground on the Hill a non-exclusive, irrevocable, universal license to use, copy, sublicense, transmit, distribute, publicly perform, publish, delete, or display such Video, or any portion thereof, or the musical composition contained therein, in any media now known or hereafter devised and for any purpose, including advertising or promotions, and to use the name, likeness, voice, biographical information, and image of Entrant and any other persons who appear in such Entrant’s Video in any media now known or hereafter devised and for any purpose, including advertising or promotion of Common Ground on the Hill or any other person or entity at Common Ground on the Hill's discretion.
By entering the Contest, each Entrant warrants that the videographer who recorded that the Entrant’s Video has granted to the Entrant a transferable license to the Video, and that the Entrant transfers to Common Ground on the Hill the right to use the Video, or any portion thereof, including the right to make derivative works or to mix the Video with other videos or elements, in any media for any purpose. Entrant expressly waives any moral rights in the Video. Each Entrant also grants to Common Ground on the Hill a non-exclusive, perpetual, sublicensable, worldwide, and royalty-free right to use the musical composition performed in the Video for any purpose, whether with the Video or separate, and grants to Common Ground on the Hill any synchronization, mechanical, or public performance rights necessary to use the music or Video in any media (including platforms that may not have PRO licenses) and for any purpose. Each Entrant authorizes Common Ground on the Hill and any entities affiliated or in privity with Common Ground on the Hill to utilize, for eternity and in any manner they see fit, the Video, and to make derivative works from such materials.
