YouTube Horse Slaughter Contest

From AlexBrownRacing

The Contest

Alex Brown Racing is sponsoring a YouTube contest that will run from Tuesday, February 10 to Sunday May 10 2009. We will offer a $1,000 prize, to be sent to the horse rescue organization of choice of the winning entry, as of Noon eastern time, May 10, 2009. All entries are to be completed, posted and approved, by Noon on Friday April 10, 2009.

Entrants must read and be familiar with the document: Deconstructing the Horse Slaughter Issue: Chapter Horse Slaughter.

The Rules

Anyone can enter, regardless of age and country of origin.

Each video is to be 1 - 4 minutes in length.

Each video discusses specific aspects of the horse slaughter issue as noted in the above document, whether it is to agree, reinforce or disagree with the issues noted in the document.

Each video must be without gory details, PG 13 please.

Each video must use the phrase "horse slaughter" in the title, and the video must be tagged with the phrase "horse slaughter". The video should also be tagged with the phrase "ABR Video Contest".

Each entrant (video producer) can produce as many videos as he or she desires.

Each entrant needs to add his or her videos to the ABR YouTube group and e-mail Wendy.

Wendy needs to approve each entrant for the contest prize via adding a comment to the video (see the rule re: no gory details).

To be eligible a video must be completed and posted by end of day, April 10, 2009 and must be new content as of February 10, 2009.

All submissions must comply with Youtube's Copyright Infringement Policy:

"YouTube respects the rights of copyright holders and publishers and requires all users to confirm they own the copyright or have permission from the copyright holder to upload content. We comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and other applicable copyright laws and promptly remove content when properly notified. Repeat infringers' videos are removed and their accounts are terminated and permanently blocked from using YouTube." If you have questions about how to comply with this policy, please visit: http://www.youtube.com/t/howto_copyright.

Determining the winner

The winner will be determined by multiplying the number of comments the video received, by the rating of the video. And then adding the number of views of the video. This calculation will be made at Noon eastern, May 10, 2009