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Sounds cool. Maybe only allowing OC is cooler and could avoid some legal troubles for the instances that care about those.
What about the platform to host the media, do we have something convenient enough?
How about using Loops.video?
Doesn't need to be OC-only for that. Can also allow CC0 or any CC-like license adequate for the purpose (can't be Non-Derivative, for one) or any publicly referable license that explicitly grants remix.
May happen if we have copyright problems, but somebody else singing a song is usually fine considering the amount of covers on YouTube.
Another user suggested PeerTube. I will build a simple web page with submissions from each year put together in a nice way via embedded PeerTube players.
We could backup the videos to several instances, offer archival downloads, but the internet will probably do its thing and back it up thousands of times as soon as we upload anyways.
Just because it's on YouTube doesn't mean it's safe to do. YouTube has a whole range of agreements with different record companies so that in many cases copyrighted music will be used, but YouTube's contentID (I think that's what it's called?) system IDs it and reroutes the ad revenue to the "appropriate" record company.
IANAL, but I do know that compositions can be and do get copyrighted - see the avril Lavigne vs Rubinos case, where the allegation was that Avril Lavigne's song "Girlfriend" sounded too similar to one of the Rubino's songs. The case was, unfortunately for us, settled behind closed doors, but it goes to show how far copyright law can go. Which, TBH, is disappointing, because on the whole, I like the idea, but well, copyright ruins a number of things.
As to the state of Peertube, I've not run into any problems. I've mostly watched videos that The Linux experiment uploads himself to Peertube, but that has been pretty flawless recently. And especially in a case like this, which could potentially generate a significant amount of traffic, I don't see why it wouldn't work from a technical standpoint - more peers generally means those kind of P2P systems work better.
What I do worry about with Peertube is the whole copyright situation (again, copyright ruins everything). Since you're reuploading what you're watching to others, if copyrighted content were to be uploaded (which can happen very quickly in a music contest), it could potentially be open season for copyright trolls.
I don't want to be a downer, I honestly hate the way copyright ruins this stuff. But I think it's important to keep in the back of your mind in order to avoid it turning into more headaches than fun.
@django@discuss.tchncs.de in the comment section pointed out that fedivision already happened in the past. It seems like fedivision worked fine with fully original content so I might just make the contest about original songs to save on copyright headache. I'll probably just call it a continuation of fedivision with the same name.
Regarding the Avril Lavigne lawsuit, it happened during the times when music industry was particularly being assholes, but I get what you mean: we can never guess how far ~~billionaire protection~~ ahem copyright laws can go.
Is PeerTube working well now? I remembered the videos never loading, but it was maybe two years ago.
It does work good enough, but we can do simple HTML 5 video as a fallback. If we compress the videos for playback and provide a zip for full quality videos, I'm sure a 10 gigabit server can handle the load. Video hosting is really not a problem we can't solve.