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CTV Asks You About Your Toronto
Last autumn, friendly Torontonian and renown photojunkie Rannie Turingan asked us to complete a simple sentence: "My Toronto Includes..." The results have been fantastic.
This autumn, CTV is similarly asking you to complete a sentence: "My Toronto Is..." However, instead of being photographed, CTV wants you to grab your video cameras and show us all who or what makes your neighborhood unique.
According to CTV's website, submission is easy. Once you have figured out who or what you want to feature in your video:
Just take your camera, camcorder or mobile phone and create your own news story on video, then send it to mytorontois@ctv.ca. You can also send us a miniDV tape or DVD of your video by mail.
Winning entries will be featured on CTV News and will win a prize package. TV and Journalism students are eligible to win a $2000 scholarship/bursary, and be offered the opportunity of a full-time summer job working at CTV.
Check out the CTV website for more information and submission rules and guidelines. If any of you decide to share your entries on a video sharing site like YouTube, be sure to let us at blogTO know!
(Photo of blogTO editor Jerrold by Rannie Turingan as part of the My Toronto Includes project.)
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?Prize-winning entry becomes the property of the Contest Sponsor? ? that means they own it, not you ?? ?including all intellectual property rights in all entries. Prize winner irrevocably agrees that by submitting an entry and upon being selected as a winner, he/she transfers and assigns, all right, title and interest in his/her video submission to the Contest Sponsor.
?Winning entrant further agrees to waive all moral rights in the submission,? which means they can alter or deface it any way they like or claim somebody else was the creator of it. ?Contest Sponsor reserves its unlimited right to display the submission in any form of media, including, without limitation, Internet web sites and/or television. Contest Sponsor reserves its unlimited right to edit or manipulate the submission for purposes of better editorial display.?
BlogTO should not be promoting ?contests? that induce individuals to hand over their work forever to billion-dollar corporations for next to no actual benefit.
Though, to be honest, if I was TV journalism student, I might be willing to hand over the rights to my video if it meant I could score a guaranteed internship and a load of cash to help pay for my tuition. But that's just me, and perhaps I'm silly.
That aside, thanks for stopping by and making it clear that people that enter the contest are giving up their rights -- it's important people know what they're getting in to, and I surely didn't do a good job of making that clear in the post.