ABA MAGNA CARTA VIDEO COMPETITION Magna Carta: What s So Great about the Great Charter? OFFICIAL COMPETITION RULES

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1 ABA MAGNA CARTA VIDEO COMPETITION Magna Carta: What s So Great about the Great Charter? OFFICIAL COMPETITION RULES The American Bar Association Magna Carta Video Competition invites student teams to create a video of not more than 15 minutes celebrating the 800 th anniversary of the sealing of Magna Carta in June of Considered the foundation of such Anglo-American concepts as the rule of law, due process, trial by peers, and constitutionalism, Magna Carta s origins and legacy have influenced the growth of representative constitutional democracy not only in England and America, but the world over. Participants should use their videos to answer the title question: Magna Carta: What s So Great about the Great Charter? Sponsors: The ABA Magna Carta Video Competition is jointly sponsored by American Bar Association (ABA) and its Solo, Small Firm and General Practice Division ( GPSolo ), the Center for Teaching the Rule of Law ( Center ) and the National Center for State Courts; and cosponsored by the American Bar Association s Young Lawyers Division, Law Student Division, Division for Public Education. Competition prizes are made possible through the generous donations or support of the competition supporters listed at: The ABA is located at: 321 North Clark Street, Chicago, IL, The Center is located at 9 N. College Avenue, Salem, VA Information Site: More information, Format and Content Guidelines, Entry Forms, instructions for submitting completed videos and sample release forms can be found online at: The Information Site also includes links to useful information for Participants regarding intellectual property that must be respected when creating a video. Eligibility: This competition is open to students in grades 9-12 or the equivalent, attending a public or private high school or home school within the U.S. Students should form a team of 2-6 students, plus one adult: a teacher, coach or team parent. Teams larger than six students will be disqualified. All team members, including adult, must be legal residents of the U.S. Immediate family members of employees, staff, or officers of the ABA or its sponsoring entities or of the Center are not eligible to participate. Participants are allowed to submit a single video, no more than 15 minutes long (shorter videos will not be penalized), for the Magna Carta Video Competition. Students can participate only on one team (adult team member can advise more than one team) and each team can enter only one video. Codecs: H.264 and AAC are the preferred video and audio codecs. Video should be at least 900 kbps. The only files that will be accepted are.mov;.wmv; or.mpeg. Students are encouraged to use their creativity, research skills, and dramatic and technical abilities to create a 15-minute video that answers the question: Magna Carta: What s So Great

2 about the Great Charter? Selection of winners and runners-up will be based on originality, creativity, accuracy and understanding exhibited in answering the question, and overall quality. The ABA and the Center will select one winner and one or more runners-up (depending on the quality of submissions) from entries that, in the sole discretion of the ABA and the Center, meet minimum quality standards and best reflect them. The competition score sheet and rubric are available to review at: The winning video along with runner-up video(s) will be posted on the Magna Carta Video Competition site as: and may later be repurposed into educational videos for distribution and posting. Competition Prizes: The winning team will receive a trip to Washington, D.C., for three days, two nights: Monday, April 13, through Wednesday, April 15, Double-occupancy hotel, travel, meals, and transportation will be provided for participants (not to exceed six students, the team teacher/coach/parent, and one additional adult). Adults accompanying the winning team must agree to be fully responsible for the safety and conduct of the students. All team members must provide a signed parental permission form to participate in the trip and a medical authorization must be provided to the supervising adults. Participants are responsible for any taxes associated with receiving the prize and participating in the trip. Video: All submissions must be the original work of the participants. Participants must not have granted any other person or entity prior right to use the video. Submissions will not be accepted or eligible if they include in the sole judgment of the ABA any content that contains or appears to contain: 1. Profane, obscene, or inappropriate material; 2. Endorses, encourages, glorifies, or condones drug use, underage drinking, alcohol abuse or any other illegal activity; 3. Nudity, profanity or gratuitous violence. 4. Inappropriate language; 5. Any express or implied commercial endorsement; 6. Any derogatory characterization of any person or group based on age, race, color, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, marital status, mental or physical disability, citizenship, creed, national origin, physical appearance, political affiliation, union membership, or other unethical or unlawful factors; 7. Depictions of any conduct, language or other context deemed inappropriate. 8. Any actual or apparent copying or other infringement of another's intellectual property rights, unless appropriate Clearances have been submitted and requisite attributions included in the video.

3 Clearances: Each participant is solely responsible for obtaining from all applicable individuals or entities any and all required rights, releases, consents, clearances, licenses, and other authorizations necessary to exploit and otherwise use their submitted piece in any and all media. Clearances required include, for example: 1. Location releases; 2. Releases from any person whose name, voice, likeness or persona is referenced, shown, or otherwise used in the submitted piece; 3. If any individual depicted is under the age of majority, participants must obtain the signature of the individual s parent or guardian on the applicable clearance(s). By submitting entries, Participants warrant that the contents of the submitted video do not infringe on any copyright or intellectual property of another. Participants also must confirm that any statements made in the submitted piece are true and do not violate or infringe on the rights of third parties. All necessary Clearances must be obtained and provided to ABA by January 15, The sponsor may disqualify any submitted video if the Participants have not obtained all necessary Clearances. How To Enter: 1. Visit the Magna Carta Video Competition at to review the rubric, scoring sheet, information on releases needed for video, and the Format and Content Guidelines. 2. Each team must submit a completed and signed Team Cover Sheet, and each student must complete an Entry Form. Students under 18 must submit the Parent or Guardian Permission Form. Send all completed forms and all clearances required for their video to: gpsolo@americanbar.org. 3. Once all forms are received, a DropBox link will be sent to the main contact . Upload the video to the DropBox link. Note that the video and entry forms must be submitted by an adult if all participants are under age Competition entries will be accepted beginning at 8:00 am CST on October 1, All videos must be uploaded to the DropBox link no later than 5:00 pm CST on January 15, Privacy: Except in connection with attributions provide to non-participant third party entities and adults (which may be on a credit roll if required to obtain a Clearance), any and all names, contact information, and related should be submitted only on the entry form and other required forms. Names, contact information, or any other personally identifiable information should not be included within the submission (for example, on a credit roll ), as the submitted pieces may be displayed on publicly accessible websites. If personally identifiable information is presented

4 within the submission, the ABA may, in the ABA s sole discretion, void or deem the submission ineligible. The only attributions that may and must be included in the video are those required to obtain Clearances. Conditions of Participation: 1. By entering, participants agree to defend and indemnify sponsors and sponsors principals, subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, officers, employees, and agents from any and all liability for any injuries, loss, or damage of any kind arising from or in connection with the competition as a result of receiving participants submissions and/or misuse of any prize. 2. Each participant agrees that the sponsors may retain the submitted video and releases the sponsors from liability for any loss or damage thereto. Each participant, by submitting the video, grants to Sponsors and their designated agents, a non-exclusive, transferable, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license and right to a) use, broadcast, webcast, post, podcast, link to or from, copy, reproduce, modify and create derivative works of the video; and b) to publicly perform or display, import, exhibit, broadcast, transmit, distribute and/or license submitted videos in their original or an altered form or format. 3. Each participant grants the sponsors the unqualified, unrestricted, worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual and royalty-free right to use his or her name, logo, marks, submission entries, and other distinctive identification in connection with promoting or marketing the competition or its theme, and future competitions, materials or as the sponsors determine. 4. The sponsor has no obligation to post or display any submitted video and may at its discretion remove any submitted video at any time. 5. Winners will be notified not later than March 1, by of the main contact provided in the entry form. If contact does not respond with five days or is returned as undeliverable, the team will forfeit all rights and an alternative winner will be chosen. General Conditions: 1. This competition is governed by the laws of the state of Illinois and participants consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal district courts located within and of the state of Illinois for any causes or controversies arising therefrom. 2. The sponsors reserve the right to void entries it deems associated with electronic or nonelectronic tampering. 3. Should technical or other difficulties arise that compromise the integrity of the competition the sponsor may cancel, modify or suspend the competition without notice. In that case, the sponsor reserves the right to award the prizes from eligible entries received before the cancellation.

5 4. The sponsor is not responsible for any technical malfunction or service outage related to the competition. 5. The sponsors are not responsible for changes in the Justice s schedule and do not guaranty participation by the Justice at the competition celebration. Questions? If you have any questions or comments in relation to the competition, please contact ABA GPSolo Program Specialist, Dee Lee at Dee.Lee@AmericanBar.org.