New York Anime Festival - call for entries

Firestorm3818 · Post by **Firestorm3818** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:53 am

I attended the NYAF last year and was at the music video contest. I know there were some serious technical problems during the playback of serveral videos during the contest. Have those been addressed?

Ryvannis · Post by **Ryvannis** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 1:19 pm

September 1st?

That is plenty of time for a entry.

NYAFamv · Post by **NYAFamv** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 1:59 pm

To those troubled by the legalese, didn't Otakon have a very similar item in their submission form last year? And that one you had to SIGN...

Don't worry, this year the assembly and editing of the AMV contest is in the hands of people who know video like the back of their hand. Hence, the acceptability of pretty much every well-known video file format. It's not impossible that things will go wrong (it is a big event, after all) but the likelihood will be greatly diminished.

NYAFamv · Post by **NYAFamv** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 2:04 pm

Oops, double post.

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:05 pm

NYAFamv wrote:To those troubled by the legalese, didn't Otakon have a very similar item in their submission form last year? And that one you had to SIGN...

I'm not sure, but nobody could truthfully say yes to that. If anyone submits something to your contest with that clause in they are lying. Furthermore, this is an unreasonable request because we edit without permission, no company will give us permission, and record labels have threatened legal action against us for even having AMVs brought up to them.

HurQlez03 · Post by **HurQlez03** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:06 pm

TO NYAFamv,
can people send in trailer parodies? If it is not meant to be funny, can it be sent to action adventure or do all trailers go to parody?

Org Profile · Post by **LantisEscudo** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:42 pm

NYAFamv wrote:To those troubled by the legalese, didn't Otakon have a very similar item in their submission form last year? And that one you had to SIGN...

No, they haven't. At least not in the last six years that I've been submitting.

This is a very serious bit of "legalese" that could have major consequences for the AMV community as a whole. The last time record labels got involved with AMVs, we got the Wind-Up Records fiasco and almost three thousand videos getting pulled down. If even one person sees that clause and tries to go to the record label for permission, we could end up getting shut down entirely.

Honestly, with that clause in place, there is no way I'll be submitting, and I'll be encouraging every editor I know to avoid this event as well.

OtakuForLife · Post by **OtakuForLife** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 12:36 pm

I lied... didn't read that part... that system is retarded.

NYAFamv · Post by **NYAFamv** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 7:01 am

Okay, we have discussed with our lawyers, bought an ASCAP agreement, and now the entry page is available legalese-free! I hope everyone can enter now. Thanks to everyone who voiced their concerns.

Enter here: http://www.nyanimefestival.com/en-us/609.cfm

OtakuForLife · Post by **OtakuForLife** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 8:23 am

Thank you for correcting this matter, I hope you enjoy my submission.