Jim Harbin Student Media Festival Copyright Guidelines

The emphasis of the Jim Harbin Student Media Festival is on original creativity. Collaboration between
students can draw upon artistic, musical, written and technical skills that would result in an original
production. Copyright is not an issue when students produce original material. However, there may be
occasions when creative contentart, music, images, or videois desired to be used from another
source.

Using copyrighted material. The rules of Fair Use with copyrighted material do NOT apply for the Jim
Harbin Student Media Festival. In the instances where it is desired to incorporate copyrighted material,
in addition to appropriate credit being given as to the source, the production application submitted to
the Jim Harbin Student Media Festival must be accompanied by a copyright permissions letter from the
copyholder(s).

Creative Commons licensed content. A Creative Commons (CC) license is one of several public copyright
licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work, and you do not need written
permission from the creator. A CC license is used when an author wants to give people the right to
share, use, and build upon a work that they have created. However, you need to pay attention to the
type of CC license (there are several). One of the most flexible is the attribution CC license, which states
that users are free to: share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt
(remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially) the material.
However, you must follow the terms, which means that you must give appropriate credit, provide a link
to the license, and indicate if changes were made.

How should I give attribution in a project? You may do so in any reasonable manner, and for purposes
of the Jim Harbin Student Media Festival, this can be noted at the conclusion of your film, and should be
noted in the paperwork submitted with your film.

If it is in the "Public Domain" then no credit is required. Creative Commons licensed content requires
giving appropriate credit unless it is CC0. You need to include what is called "Attribution, which means
giving credit to the creator of the work. This means you need to list the Title, Author, Source & License
associated with the work. Heres an example:
Music: "Tra-la-la" by Podington Bear From the Free Music Archive CC BY (these last few capital letters are the
type of Creative Commons license and appear on the file where you got the image, sound, or video). Also include
the URL.

Student media created for a class. Student-produced media originally created to meet the requirements
of a class may not have met guidelines for using portions of copyrighted materials without regarding
prior permission. Therefore, if submitting such productions to the Jim Harbin Student Media Festival,
these same productions would require copyright permissions, since they are no longer under the special
classroom/instructional exemptions and now constitute a public performance. If, as part of a
production, a brief portion of a copyright work is included as a result of incidental activities,
permission is not required (e.g., students videotaping a community parade, briefly take footage of a
band passing by performance music (incidental). However, if the taping concentrates on the band's
performance, it is no longer incidental.)
Trademarked Items: The use of trademarked symbols, logos, characters, etc. in a production would
require prior permission, unless their use meets the condition of being incidental to the production.
For example, if a video team briefly pans the audience and incidentally sweeps by a person holding a
copy of Newsweek Magazine, this brief sweep could be considered incidental to the production.
However, if the camera was then to zoom in on the person holding the magazine and emphasize the
magazine, it is no longer incidental.