Whitney Bigelow, The Daily Universe; Film and music festival celebrates student creatives and public domain
"Student filmmakers and musicians walked away from Wednesday night’s
Public Domain Film and Music Festival with over $3000 in cash prizes.
The festival was put on by the BYU Copyright Licensing Office.
Students had 48 hours to create a film based on one of ten pieces of
literature from 1924 that entered the public domain at the start of this
year. Entries in the music category were given audio recordings from
that same year to incorporate into their compositions.
The winner of the evening’s prestigious Best Picture award and $1,000
was a group of students called RHEEL Productions, including Heather
Moser, Avery Marshall, Laura Marshall and Emma Spears. Their entry was a
dramatic short film entitled “What’ll I Do,” based on the 1924 novel
“Some Do Not” by Ford Madox Ford."
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BYU students compete to make new art out of old — and now copyright-free — works; The Salt Lake Tribune, February 2, 2020
Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune; BYU students compete to make new art out of old — and now copyright-free — works
"The entries in BYU’s second annual Public Domain Film and Music Festival will screen Wednesday, Feb. 5, at 7 p.m., at the Varsity Theater on the BYU campus. Admission is free.
The contest covers both film and music based on works whose copyright protection has lapsed. Musicians have a week to compose something based on public-domain music, and film crews of five or fewer have 48 hours to make a short film based on a public-domain book.
"The entries in BYU’s second annual Public Domain Film and Music Festival will screen Wednesday, Feb. 5, at 7 p.m., at the Varsity Theater on the BYU campus. Admission is free.
The contest covers both film and music based on works whose copyright protection has lapsed. Musicians have a week to compose something based on public-domain music, and film crews of five or fewer have 48 hours to make a short film based on a public-domain book.
The contest is run by BYU’s Copyright Licensing Office,
which secures licenses for copyrighted educational materials to be used
by the university’s instructors, said Kenny Baldwin, the office’s
director of operations.
The contest is a way to educate students about how copyright works, Baldwin said, and “inspire the community to embrace their own right as creators of creative content.”"
The contest is a way to educate students about how copyright works, Baldwin said, and “inspire the community to embrace their own right as creators of creative content.”"
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