CBC CONTEST RULES AND REGULATIONS
“Remix the Ring”
August 1 – 21, 2006

CBC Radio is looking for your unique remix of the Ride of the Valkyries from Richard Wagner’s epic music drama cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen. Your contribution may become part of CBC Radio’s online and on air celebration of the Canadian Opera Company production of the Ring Cycle in September 2006.

1. ENTRY PROCEDURE

To enter the “Remix the Ring” contest (the “Contest”), participants must follow the following entry process:

• Create one or more remixes of the Ride of the Valkyries audio file posted on the Remix the Ring web page (www.cbc.ca/remixthering);
  
  
• Each remix must be recorded and submitted on a clean, high resolution MP3 audio file; there may be no other content on the audio file submitted;
  
  
• The sound of the Ride of the Valkyries audio file must maintain a substantial presence in your remix;
  
  
• Each remix can be created with any available remixing and editing tools, or may be an arrangement created using any electronic or acoustic compositional methods;
  
  
• The style is entirely up to each participant: classical, dj, world, mash up.
  
  
• The total length of the remix must be two and one half minutes (2:30) or less.
  
  
• The remix must not include any material owned by others.



• The remix may not feature the work or participation of anyone except that of the participant and one collaborator..



• The remix may never have been published nor performed in public in whole or in part. It must not violate the rights of any third party. All remixes submitted will deemed final and no revised versions will be accepted after the initial submission..



• All remixes submitted and all related authorizations granted to CBC in these rules or entered into with CBC at a later date, shall be governed by the relevant collective agreement between CBC and the competent talent union, where applicable. Subject to such authorizations, participants retain ownership of the copyright in the texts submitted with their entries..



• Each MP3 audio file must mention at the very beginning the full the title of the remix ONLY.
  
• Participant’s name may not appear anywhere on the audio file..



• Participants may submit as many DIFFERENT remixes as they wish, provided each remix must be submitted separately (separate entry form, separate audio file).

Participants must complete the official entry form published on the CBC website at www.cbc.ca/remixthering. Participants (or their parents or guardians) must submit the duly completed entry form, provide the requisite information and attestation regarding the remix submitted along with name, age, full postal address, e-mail address, telephone numbers of participant, and return it with the MP3 audio file containing their remix in compliance with these rules, to remixthering@cbc.ca.

Submissions sent by any other means will not be accepted.
To be valid, all entry forms must be received by CBC at the above e-mail address at or before 11H59PM ET on August 21, 2006 at the latest. No submissions will be accepted after 11:59 PM August 21, 2006 (the “Contest Close Date”) for any reason.

Photocopies and hand-drawn facsimiles of completed entry forms and other mechanical reproductions will be rejected.

Entry forms and audio files become the property of CBC and will not be returned to participants. Copies of the audio files submitted will not be returned either. Acknowledgements of receipt will not be sent out.
Non compliant submissions will be disqualified.

No purchase required.

2. CONDITIONS OF ELIGIBILITY

Contest participants must meet all conditions of eligibility set forth in these rules and regulations. Contest is open to all Canadian residents only who are thirteen (13) years of age and older at the time of entering the Contest. Employees of CBC and its affiliate, as well as their immediate family (father/mother, brother/sister, son/daughter) or persons living under the same roof are not eligible to enter this Contest.

3. PROCEDURE FOR AWARDING PRIZES

All eligible submissions will be auditioned by a qualified jury consisting in a panel of 3 CBC judges after Contest Close Date. The winning remixes will be chosen by the jury following a blind judging process based on the following criteria:

i. Originality

ii. Style

iii. Quality of remix

iv. Overall artistic merit

Between August 28 and September 1, 2006, the ten finalists will be contacted by telephone or by email following the jury’s decision. Finalists must claim their prize as instructed by CBC and accept an eventual selection as Grand Prize winner by the voting public no later than forty-eight (48) hours after the date on which they were initially contacted. [THE FINALISTS SHALL FIRST SIGN THEIR RELEASE AND RETURN IT BY FAX WITHIN THOSE 48 HOURS. THEN THEY WILL MAIL IN THE ORIGINAL. ON THE RELEASE THEY WILL ACCEPT THE GRAND PRIZE IN ADVANCE, PROVIDED THEIR REMIX COLLECTS THE MOST VOTES.] If the prize is not claimed within this period, CBC may award the prize to another participant. The final selection of the ten finalists will be posted online at www.cbc.ca/remixthering on September 5, 2006 as will their remixes.

Between September 5, 2006 and September 13, 2006 at 11:59 PM at the latest, listeners may vote among the ten finalists’ remixes on www.cbc.ca/remixthering for their favourite remix. Limit: one vote per listener per day. The finalist, whose remix receives the most individual votes, will be contacted by telephone or by e-mail on September 14, 2006 following the close of the vote, to be awarded the Grand Prize. The finalist selected to be the Grand Prize winner shall have previously returned the attestation and release document as more fully detailed above in this section 3 and at sub-section 5.2 of these rules and regulations.

4. DESCRIPTION OF PRIZES

Eleven prizes will be awarded among the participants who submitted the ten best remixes selected by the jury and the voting public, consisting in:

• Ten cash prizes of two hundred and fifty dollars ($250) awarded to each of the ten finalists;



• One Grand Prize of seven hundred and fifty dollars ($750) awarded to one of the ten finalists as per the procedure described above.



• Upon each finalist’s accepting his/her prize, the finalist remix will be broadcast for an unlimited number of plays on CBC Radio One and CBC Radio Two beginning in September 2006, namely as part of their Ring coverage, as well as on CBC Radio Three. It will also be made available to be streamed for an unlimited number of plays on CBC’s website at www.cbc.ca/remixthering or at such other location on CBC’s website as CBC may decide in its discretion, for an indefinite period following the Contest Close Date.

Total prize value: $3,250

Where applicable, the cash prizes cover the rights for the recording, broadcast and making available by CBC of the winning remixes under the relevant collective agreement entered into by CBC. Also where applicable, any other uses by the CBC of the remixes shall be subject to the relevant collective agreement entered into by CBC.

Prizes will be distributed within ninety (90) days after the prize winners have been successfully contacted and notified of their prize.

5. GENERAL RULES

5.1 Winners, or their parents or guardians if the winners are minors, shall agree, if necessary, to have their name and/or picture, including their photograph, and/or their voices used for advertising purposes related to this contest, free of charge.

5.2 Winners, or their parents or guardians if the winners are minors, shall sign a document attesting to their eligibility as stipulated in paragraph 2 of these rules and releasing CBC and its affiliates, as well as its directors, officers and employees, from all liability for any damage or loss arising from participation in this Contest or from the awarding, acceptance or use of the prize.

5.3 The prize shall be accepted as is and may not be sold nor transferred. No substitutions will be allowed.

5.4 If the prize cannot be awarded as described in these rules, CBC and its affiliates, as well as its directors, officers and employees, reserves the right to substitute a prize or prize component with another of comparable value.

5.5 Refusal to accept the prize releases CBC and its affiliates, as well as its directors, officers and employees, of any obligation toward the winner.

5.6 Should a participant, winner or finalist make any false statement, they shall be automatically disqualified from the contest.

5.7 CBC and its affiliates as well as its directors, officers and employees, shall assume no liability resulting from losses, delays, mistaken addresses on mail or e-mail received, misdirected entries, typographical errors, technical, computer or telephone malfunctions, loss or theft of computer or telephone data, damage to software or computer equipment, fraudulent calls or any other mistake.

5.8 CBC and its affiliates, as well as its directors, officers and employees, shall assume no liability whatsoever for any situation in which their inability to act results from an event or situation beyond their control, including a strike, lockout or any other labour dispute at their location or the locations of the organizations and businesses whose services are used to hold this Contest.

5.9 All personal information, such as your name, address, telephone numbers, e-mail address and age is collected solely for the purposes of administering this contest and shall not be used for any other purpose without your consent. By providing this information, you consent to it being used for the stated purposes.

5.10 By entering, participants agree to abide by the Contest rules which shall be applied by the CBC. All its decisions are final.

August 1, 2006
Hele Montagna
Producer
CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION