Want to make sure that video of yours makes it onto the site? Better follow these hints and house rules.
Basic rules:
No music (Excluding Lip Sync)
Please say "I want to be on Homemade" at the start of your clip
You must be over 16
No swearing, violence, sex or dangerous behaviour
Please begin your clip by saying "I want to be on Homemade for T4".
Everyone who appears in your clip needs to be over the age of 16.
No sex, swearing, violence or dangerous behaviour please. It's a family show.
All videos are moderated before being published on Homemade. This is to make sure that your lovely clips meet our legal rules and requirements. Sorry, but you just can't be trusted.
Moderation will be carried out as quickly as possible. All content will be checked within 48 hours. In many cases, this will be much faster.
To ensure that your masterpiece survives moderation, please check our legal stuff before submitting it.
What video formats can I upload?
We can only accept clips in the Windows Media Video (WMV) format. To find out more about WMVs and to download Windows Media Encoder for free, click here.
What file size can I upload?
Please try to keep your clips around a minute long.
Any longer and they might not make it.
Using music in clips
Unfortunately, we can't clear the rights to any music that you submit with your clip. Although we will try for Lip Sync clips, so send them in.
As a general rule, please do not use music on your clips.
What is defamation?
Defamation law protects the reputation of a person from defamatory statements made about him/her to a third party without lawful justification. A statement is defamatory if, when said about a person and published to a third party, it would make ordinary people think less of that person. Any living person can sue for defamation, the dead cannot. However, that's not to say that any content defaming Mr X's dead relatives will pass our taste and decency guidelines.
Companies can also sue, if a statement is damaging to their reputation. A class of individuals can sue, although the larger the group is and the less focussed the defamatory statement is, the less likely they are to sue. Fictional characters can be deemed to be defamatory if reasonable viewers would understand them to be representations of people or organisations. It is also possible to offend accidentally. Two pieces of video may not be defamatory when viewed individually, but when cut next to one another in a sequence the result may be offensive, irrelevant of the filmmakers intentions. In all cases, the important factor is not whether a story is true, but whether it can be proved to be true.
