Instructions and Examples for Completing
Form ICH-07-Photo and Form ICH-07-Video

  • All documentation must be accompanied by a non-exclusive grant of rights document granting worldwide rights to UNESCO to use the materials.
  • Grants of rights must be submitted in English or French, without alteration of any kind to the text.
  • An original signed grant of rights must be submitted, in two copies. In many cases, the submitting State is the owner of the rights, and the signature should be that of an authorized official. In other cases, the photographer or videographer might retain ownership of the rights, and it is the responsibility of the State to secure his or her signature.
  • If a State submits materials from different rights-owners, a separate grant of rights should be prepared for each set of materials.
  • Grants of rights should also be transmitted in electronic format (standard .rtf, or .doc format), on CD-ROM or through Internet at: , so that the caption and credit information can easily be registered.

Register of photos

Each photo should be clearly and uniquely identified by the identifier (typically the name of the file) and a brief informative caption of no more than 40 words, suitable for publication. The date of creation, the name of the photographer, and a full credit notice is also required. The credit notice should take the form:‘[name of rights owner],[year]’. Sample photo entries are below.

Identifier
(for instance file name) / Brief informative caption
(no more than 40 words
in English or French) / Date / Credit
(‘------, year’) / Photographer
(if not mentioned in the credit)
Photo ES-01 / The Giants of the Patum of Berga are 3.5 to 4 metres tall and weigh between 70 and 100 kilograms. / March 2005 / Z. Wolton / Ministry of Culture, 2007 / Z. Wolton
File 2007-IQ-01.tif / Ali Muhamed, left, learned to play the jawzah four-stringed fiddle, the typical instrument of Iraqi maqam, from his grandfather. / 23 April 2007 / Lamya el Hassoun, 2007 / Lamya el Hassoun
ID-349-03 / The intricate art of hand drawing on batik cloth. Here the wax-resist is carefully applied to the cloth using a canthing tulis. / 2009 / Batik Museum of Pekalongan, 2009 / Liana Koenintjak
Bắc Ninh photo 3 / Bamboo stick pushing (Lao đan đam) custom at the Bà Ðống festival in Ðống Cao village (Phong Khê commune, Bắc Ninh city). / 2010 / Nguyễn Văn Nguyễn and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, 2010 / Nguyễn Văn Nguyễn
BUL-04 / Young girl worshipping inside the ‘stolnina’ (small chapel), where holy icons and ritual drums are stored before the celebrations in Bulgari village on thethird of June 2008. / 3 June 2008 / Petra Milova, 2008 / Petra Milova

Register of video recordings

The video recording should be clearly and uniquely identified by its identifier, title and language. The date of creation, the name of the creator, and a full credit notice is also required. The credit notice should take the form:‘[name of rights owner],[year]’. Sample video entries are below.

Identifier / Title of the video recording / Languages (soundtrack(s) and/or subtitles) / Date / Credit
(‘------, year’) / Name of creator
(if not mentioned in the credit)
Rabinal Achí-DVD-01 / The Rabinal Achí or dance of Tun / English soundtrack / January 2008 / NHK, 2008 / Director: Miguel Bosco
Producer: NHK
Bhutan CDR-1 / The Drametse mask dance drama of Bhutan / Bhutanese soundtrack; English and French subtitles (two versions) / December 2007 / ILCS, Royal University of Bhutan, 2008 / Produced and directed by the Institute of Language and Culture Studies, Bhutan

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