Content Ingest Legal Agreement

While Denver Open Media is not responsible for the content submitted to our station/website, members must confirm that the content being provided is not contrary to local, state or federal laws, regulations, or Denver Open Media procedures and policies. Complete Program Content Legal Guidelines are posted here, but in the most basic terms, you agree that the material that you are submitting to Denver Open Media does not include:

1. Any material violating any state or federal law;

2. Any material that is libelous, slanderous, or otherwise defamatory, or constitutes an unlawful invasion of privacy;

3. Any advertising or material that promotes any commercial product or service;

4. Any use of material that violates statutory or common law copyrights

Furthermore, if any programming submitted for broadcasting by any access producer violates these provisions, Denver Open Media shall refrain from broadcasting or re-broadcasting the programming and will also impose any other sanctions against the producer dictated by the Community Media Center rules and regulations.

Members are expected to comply with all programming guidelines. Members will be penalized in the following manner if a violation occurs:

Three Strikes Rule

Strike one: Show gets deleted from database
Strike two: All shows get deleted from database
Strike three: Membership is revoked

Permission to Use Content

Producers who are airing content will be asked to give permission to not only air their piece on one of the three channels, programmed by our automation system, but also to share it with other noncommercial broadcast entities, and see it posted on the web.

Creative Commons/Copyrights

Deproduction and DOM rent out studios and production equipment for commercial use at standard rates. Only noncommercial, public access, creative commons projects qualify for the use of equipment and studios at a discounted rate. If producers want to own exclusive copyrights to their work, or if they want to produce commercial content, it will not air on the Denver Open Media public access channels, and producers will pay commercial rates for use of studios and equipment.

Series Programming Policy

Members who are at least programming level members and are willing to commit to submitting new content on a regular basis can request one series timeslot of either a half hour or hour.*

The timeslot must be chosen from within the primary theme block set for the program. The timeslot will remain consistent until either June 1st or December 1st, at the time of the bi-annual "Mix-Up" in which theme blocks are moved around and producers can request timeslot changes. Producers must have at least 2 shows ingested, DOMinized and available to schedule in PSG to request a series timeslot.

*All new episodes submitted for a series timeslot must be ingested and scheduled AT LEAST ONE WEEK IN ADVANCE OF THE AIR DATE. Automated program scheduling occurs on a daily basis.

Procedure to Schedule Series:

1. Review available blocks for program's theme block.

2. Make sure no other producer already has requested slot and make sure producer does not already have another series.

3. Producer has at least two new programs to schedule (they should be ingested, DOMinized and available to schedule in PSG).

4. Schedule the program in the appropriate timeslot based on chosen theme block for channel 56.

5. The last program available to schedule should be set to recur for the same day of the week and time until the either June 1st or December 1st. This means that over the course of the season members must continually ingest and DOMinize new programs so they can be manually set to air in the requested series timeslot.

6. As the new programs come in, slot that may have been reserved with an older program will have to be deleted and re-scheduled with the new program.