The video submission (including any music used therein)
must be an original work created by the
participating individual or group, or have been licensed
for entry in the competition by the original
creator.
Entrants must ensure that they own the copyright to the
work. No copyright-infringing imagery, video
or music (including partial images) may be used.
Plagiarism or the replication of other people's work
is prohibited. The organizer will not be liable for any
legal repercussions from disputes over right
of portrait, personality rights, privacy rights, copyright
and trademark rights.
The content of the entered work must be proactive, healthy
and positive. Contentious ethnic,
religious, gender, political and cultural issues should be
avoided. There must be no obscenity,
violence, gore, defamation, personal attacks, violations
of privacy, offenses against good taste and
public order, or violations of national laws.
The organizer may add foreign language subtitles to
winning works for the purpose of international
promotion.
Winning submissions to the competition, including the
first-place entry, placed entries, as well as
other outstanding entries, will be re-uploaded to the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Trending Taiwan
Facebook, YouTube and other social media accounts for
exhibition and other relevant purposes. If any
submission to the competition cannot be uploaded to the
Trending Taiwan channel due to a copyright
infringement detected by YouTube, the filmmakers in
question are required to proactively remove their
submissions for the competition from their own YouTube
channel.
The winners must consent to the competition organizer
modifying or re-producing their winning
submissions for the purposes of international promotion.
The organizer receives copyright to the
winning film and derived works for transmission and public
broadcast over domestic and overseas
physical and virtual channels.
Prize-winning works are to be used for international
promotional purposes. If, after the competition,
it is necessary to correct any information that may be
incorrect within the work, the sponsoring
organization reserves the right to request the filmmaker
to confirm the film’s contents as well as
adjust titles or subtitles where necessary. The creator
must then provide a new file of the film. This
is non-negotiable.
Copyright Declaration:
In the event of disputes over the following issues, the
organizer reserves the right to disqualify the
submitted work and recover the awarded prize.
The organizer acquires the right to global unlimited use
rights to the winning film for reproduction,
distribution, publication, editing, modification, public
narration, public broadcast, public
screening, public performance, public transmission, public
exhibition and any form of production along
with all derived creative rights. The organizer may choose
to provide foreign language subtitles for
selected works and publicly promote all winning entries in
any format including but not limited to
compilation for publication, adaptation and broadcast as
multimedia online plays, as well as marketing
and broadcast on but not limited to the MOFA website, its
affiliated social media accounts, Cheers
magazine and other platforms (e.g., TV, Facebook, Line,
Instagram,Twitter, or mobile phones).
The organizer owns the online broadcasting rights to all
works and has the right to publish them all
on digital platforms and websites pertaining to the
organizer, Cheers magazine's website and printed
magazine, and other relevant operations.
By completing the application process, participants
consent to the rules of this competition.
The event organizer may, for domestic and overseas
promotional purposes, ask the winners to provide
the original audio-video files, subtitle transcripts, and
compact disks, among other elements of their
works without returning what they provide. The winners
shall, therefore, sign an agreement to
authorize the organizer and any party authorized by the
organizer, including both the juridical and
natural persons bound by law to undertake business for the
organizer, to publicly broadcast, perform,
narrate, and exhibit the winning works as well as to
reproduce and modify the winning works (including
but not limited to conversion to compact disk and
different languages) or partially edit such works.
If notified that the entered work's copyright is in
dispute or is in violation of intellectual
property rights, the work may be disqualified by the
organizer; the entrant is liable for all legal
repercussions and compensation arising from related
disputes.
Disclaimer on Prize Money:
Under the income tax rules of the Republic of China
Taiwan, winners of monetary rewards that exceed NT$1,000
(on an annual basis) are subject to withholding tax and
certain documents are required to be submitted
(signed reward receipt and a photocopy of the recipient’s
ID card). This amount must be included in
the recipient’s annual declaration of individual income
tax. If prize money exceeds NT$20,000, 10% in
tax may be withheld by the organizer in accordance with
the law and a further 2.11% in 2nd Generation
NHI levy will be deducted as well. Award winners who are
not residents of the ROC shall have 20% in
tax deducted in accordance with the law.
After the list of prize-winners is announced, the
organizer will send a notification message to the
prizewinners’ email addresses. Please return the prize
receipt and relevant documentation within the
designated time period (within five days, for both
domestic and foreign winners), as well as the DVDs
of the prize-winning short film both with and without
subtitles. The makers of short films not awarded
prizes will not be separately notified.
Other Information:
In the event of disputes over competition rules or
copyright, the organizer reserves the right to
disqualify an entered work and recover an awarded prize.
If more than half of the judges are in agreement, the
organizer may choose "not to award" or to
increase the number of placed entries in other categories
based on the quality of submissions and the
judging process.
The organizer reserves the right to revise the
aforementioned rules.
