Music Contest 2010

[Song Writing Contest]

Music Contest 2010 – Imahollywoodstar - is a Great Hollywood Stars
Original Music Talent Song Competition live Song Contest is to open
for songwriters, lyricists and music composers.
http://www.imahollywoodstar.com/

[David Kastrup]

I find that rather hard.

Check out <URL:http://www.imahollywoodstar.com/content/3/rules.html>

What you are judged on: "Music", "Lyrics", "Arrangement", "Vocal
Ability" ...

But later in the eligibility conditions:

Any Audio Entry incorporating any lyrics, vocals, any un-original
music or beats or any copyrighted material shall be disqualified.

How are you going to be judged on lyrics and vocal ability, if any audio
entry incorporating any lyrics or vocals shall be disqualified?

And according to the Berne convention, the copyright belongs with the
creator from the inception. You have to explicitly relinquish it into
public domain to have this be otherwise. But later in the conditions:

Winners will be notified and must sign and return an affidavit of
eligibility/recording rights/publicity release to Hollywood Stars
LLC within 14 days of notification date to Hollwood Stars LLC. The
affidavit will state that winner’s song is original work and he/she
holds all rights to song.

So your work must not be copyrighted, but you have to hold the copyright
to the song.

If they can't be bothered to let a sane person look over their contest
conditions, I have my doubts about their ability to actually market the
winners of the contest.

--
David Kastrup