Dream Submission Guidelines

By Frogboy Posted February 21, 2007 12:10:43

As the # of animated wallpapers submitted increases, we're having to establish some guidelines on what is and isn't going to be accepted:

Content MUST loop. An animated wallpaper should have a reasonably transitioning loop.
Do NOT submit content other people's work without their permission. We are allowing some leeway right now on this rule for content that is based on content distributed on the net until we determine the legality of this.
Content must be high-definition. That means the vertical resolution needs to be at least 720 pixels.

Additional rules on fair use of video clips:

Fair Use allows for the limited reuse of copyrighted material so long as it is not done for financial gain of the person reusing the work, nor does it financially harm the original author by denying them sales etc. In the case of Dream animated wallpapers, users can make limited reuse of video files created by other authors provided they meet the following requirements:

The animations used in the .Dream file is either 15 seconds in length of shorter OR less than 25% of the original video file in length (whichever is shorter). So if you found a 20 second video you want to use in a Dream, you can use no more than 5 seconds of that video. Anything else, you are limited to 15 seconds.
You provide credit to the original author in the skin comments AND provide a link to your original source.
Understand that if the original owner of the work asks us to take it down, provided proof of ownership, we will comply immediately.

Failure to comply with these fair use rules will result in an item being rejected from the submission queue.

If you find your work is being redistributed here against your wishes, please contact a site admin with some form of proof that you own the original work, and we will remove the offending entry immediately.

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Do submit content other people's work without their permission.

Typo...I assume you meant do NOT submit.

Another great move by Stardocks! Thank you for implementing some regulations... at first it was not a big deal (and honestly we all wanted to get our greedy little hands on *whatever* we can find) but now and in the future it would be ideal to host only .Dream files that are of decent quality. Keep up the good work and tell Microsoft to release their final product already!!

Fixed and thanks for the heads up on the typo!

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As the # of animated wallpapers submitted increases, we're having to establish some guidelines on what is and isn't going to be accepted:

Content MUST loop. An animated wallpaper should have a reasonably transitioning loop.
Do NOT submit content other people's work without their permission. We are allowing some leeway right now on this rule for content that is based on content distributed on the net until we determine the legality of this.
Content must be high-definition. That means the vertical resolution needs to be at least 720 pixels.

With respect for the creators of dreams:

"Content must loop", so even material with a jerky loop is allowed?

"Content must loop", so even material with a jerky loop is allowed?

My friend I think you missed the second part of that quote. "Content must loop. An animated wallpaper should have a reasonably transitioning loop"

The way I read it, Dreams that loop horribly from the last frame to the first will not be allowed.

Technically, ANY video used as a background WILL loop... after all, the video ends at the last frame and begins again at frame 1. If this is not considered a loop by all means correct me (and I'm not being sarcastic, please do).

All that being said, the first regulation stated above simply implies that if a .Dream wallpaper does not transition from the last frame of the video to the first frame adequately, then it will not be accepted.

Yosmel

Yosmel, thank you for your statement and I agree with it.

I hope that the main-page of this dream-portal will show only material which complies with this statement

(Excuse my English sometimes, not my native language).

I hope that the main-page of this dream-portal will show only material which complies with this statement

And I second that statement! I cant wait to see how this DreamScene content and it's community will expand in the coming months. I've never been so excited about a single Windows feature.

Yosmel

Appended rules for Fair Use:

Fair Use allows for the limited reuse of copyrighted material so long as it is not done for financial gain of the person reusing the work, nor does it financially harm the original author by denying them sales etc. In the case of Dream animated wallpapers, users can make limited use of video files created by other authors provided they meet the following requirements:

The animations used in the .Dream file is either 15 seconds in length of shorter OR less than 25% of the original video file in length (whichever is shorter). So if you found a 20 second video you want to use in a Dream, you can use no more than 5 seconds of that video. Anything else, you are limited to 15 seconds.
You provide credit to the original author in the skin comments AND provide a link to your original source.
Understand that if the original owner of the work asks us to take it down, provided proof of ownership, we will comply immediately.

Please clarify the above, I have emailed you but as yet have had no reply.

Quote from your post above "Content must be high-definition. That means the vertical resolution needs to be at least 720 pixels."

high-definition 720p = 1280x720. DV resolution 720 = 720x480 NTSC or 720x576 PAL.

are we to assume you made a mistake and did not mean high-definition but DV res ??

any comments to clear this up are welcome.

Thabks 00NukE

I am attempting to upload a dream created from part of a video from the NASA website (free video download section). I'm presuming as long as NASA is given credit (and we do pay NASA's salaries

- that it would be OK, at least to try)?

The "attempting" part was that the dream seems to fully upload, but the next page "fails to display". I have no idea if it made it to Stardock or not...

Thanks for your great products and continuing to make working on a computer all day a bit more bearable... Greg