The One Club has announced the winners for the 40th annual One Show Awards. McCann/Melbourne secured highest honors by winning Best of Show for its work, “Dumb Ways to Die,” for Metro Trains in The One Show’s Integrated Branding–Public Service Announcement category. P&G won Client of the Year for its work with Old Spice, Tide and the “Best Job” campaign that ran during the 2012 Olympics in London.
Overall, there were 554 winners from 34 countries who emerged from a competitive pool of over 11,500 submissions. The final tally consisted of 34 Gold Pencil winners, 38 Silver Pencil winners, 20 Bronze Pencil winners and 462 Merit winners who were honored today at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center in New York City.
“McCann/Melbourne managed to tap into something special with ‘Dumb Ways to Die,’ as shown by the 50 million-plus views on YouTube,” said Mary Warlick, CEO of The One Club. “They turned what might have been a morbid topic into a funny, catchy spot that charmed and, more importantly, raised awareness.”
The following are among the most highly awarded agencies of The One Show 2013, all of which won Gold Pencils for the following work: Wieden + Kennedy/Portland for “Best Job” (client: P&G); Barton F. Graf 9000/New York for “A Long Day of Childhood” (client: Ragu); BBH/London for “Three Little Pigs” (client: The Guardian); Droga5/New York for “Help! I Want to Save a Life” (client: Help Remedies/DKMS); and Wieden + Kennedy/New York for “The Name” (client: ESPN).
“There’s been a departure from the slapstick humor that dominated beer commercials in recent years and a rise in more thoughtful humor as well as an emphasis on in-depth storytelling,” added Warlick.
The complete list of The One Show winners can be found here.
One Show Interactive winners will be honored at Terminal 5 in NYC on May 10.
AI-Assisted Works Can Get Copyright With Enough Human Creativity, According To U.S. Copyright Office
Artists can copyright works they made with the help of artificial intelligence, according to a new report by the U.S. Copyright Office that could further clear the way for the use of AI tools in Hollywood, the music industry and other creative fields.
The nation's copyright office, which sits in the Library of Congress and is not part of the executive branch, receives about half a million copyright applications per year covering millions of individual works. It has increasingly been asked to register works that are AI-generated.
And while many of those decisions are made on a case-by-case basis, the report issued Wednesday clarifies the office's approach as one based on what the top U.S. copyright official describes as the "centrality of human creativity" in authoring a work that warrants copyright protections.
"Where that creativity is expressed through the use of AI systems, it continues to enjoy protection," said a statement from Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter, who directs the office.
An AI-assisted work could be copyrightable if an artist's handiwork is perceptible. A human adapting an AI-generated output with "creative arrangements or modifications" could also make it fall under copyright protections.
The report follows a review that began in 2023 and fielded opinions from thousands of people that ranged from AI developers, to actors and country singers.
It shows the copyright office will continue to reject copyright claims for fully machine-generated content. A person simply prompting a chatbot or AI image generator to produce a work doesn't give that person the ability to copyright that work, according to the report. "Extending protection to material whose expressive elements are determined by a machine ...... Read More