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WSFS - Business Carried Forward
The following Constitutional Amendments were approved
at The Millennium Philcon and are passed on to ConJosé for ratification.
Short Title: Perpetual Motions
Moved, To amend portions of Article III of the WSFS Constitution
to regularize the current practice of extending an extra year of eligibility
for the Hugo Award to works first published outside the USA, and to
administer this change, as follows:
Delete the final sentence of section 3.2.2:
3.2.2: A work originally appearing in a language other than
English shall also be eligible for the year in which it is first issued
in English translation. A work, once it has appeared in English,
may thus be eligible only once.
Insert the following after existing subsection 3.2.2:
3.2.x: The Business Meeting may by a 3/4 vote provide
that works originally published outside the United States of America
and first published in the United States of America in the current
year shall also be eligible for Hugo Awards given in the following
year.
3.2.y: A work shall not be eligible if in a prior
year it received sufficient nominations to appear on the final Award
ballot.
Short Title: The Long and Short of It
Moved, To amend portions of Article III of the WSFS Constitution
to have the effect of splitting the existing Best Dramatic Presentation
category into two categories, Long Form and Short Form, to regulate
the administration of such categories, and for other purposes, as
follows.
1. Strike out existing Section 3.3.6, "Best Dramatic
Presentation."
3.3.6: Best Dramatic Presentation. Any production in any
medium of dramatized science fiction, fantasy or related subjects
which has been publicly presented for the first time in its present
dramatic form during the previous calendar year.
2. Insert the following section after existing Section 3.3.5:
3.3.x: Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form. Any
production in any medium of dramatized science fiction, fantasy, or
related subjects that has been publicly presented for the first time
in its present dramatic form during the previous calendar year, with
a complete running time of more than 90 minutes.
3. Insert the following section before existing Section 3.3.7
3.3.x: Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form. Any
production in any medium of dramatized science fiction, fantasy, or
related subjects that has been publicly presented for the first time
in its present dramatic form during the previous calendar year, with
a complete running time of 90 minutes or less.
4. Insert the following section after existing Section 3.2.5:
3.2.x: The Worldcon Committee shall not consider
previews, promotional trailers, commercials, public service announcements,
or other extraneous material when determining the length of a work.
Running times of dramatic presentations shall be based on their first
general release.
5. Insert the following section after existing Section 3.2.6:
3.2.x: The Worldcon Committee may relocate a dramatic
presentation work into a more appropriate category if it feels that
it is necessary, provided that the length of the work is within the
lesser of twenty (20) minutes or twenty percent (20%) of the new category
limits.
Cheryl Morgan, Secretary
2001 Business Meeting
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