[cma-l] Release Forms

Mon Dec 14 13:54:00 GMT 2015

There are two different issues I think; your presenters and guests.

The simplest solution is not to allow presenters to use content recorded at or for the stations for any other purpose unless written permission is given. 

For studio and phone in guests, you have an implicit consent to use their contribution anyway.  We record a lot of content and find a simple approach is to save the preamble and post-amble; get the guest to tell you their name and given them information about where and how the content is going to be used. That only takes a few seconds.

We also have a release form, which happens mostly to be used in exceptional circumstances – the  text is below.

Hope this helps?

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I confirm that the undersigned* gives consent to being photographed, interviewed and/or recorded in vision and/or sound by representatives of <Monogram Media Limited> for the purposes of broadcasting, advertising, publicity and educational activities. I hereby waive any claims to royalties, liability for loss and damages arising out of such activities.

Name ................................................ Signed .............................................. Date ................................................. 

*Must be signed by a parent or guardian if the named person is under 18 years old. 

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Alan

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From:  <cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk> on behalf of James Cridland <james at cridland.net>
Reply-To:  "cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk" <cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk>
Date:  Sunday, 13 December 2015 at 23:35
To:  "cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk" <cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk>
Subject:  Re: [cma-l] Release Forms

Copyright was part of my presenter contract when I was on-air, and I'd suggest it lives there rather than getting guests to sign a release form for your purposes.

Release forms are scary for some interviewees and may mean they back out at the last minute; they are extra hassle which is easily forgotten in the heat of the moment, and a load of additional paperwork.

Enclosed (I suspect) are the two relevant passages from my 1993 presenter contract. If you can't see the enclosures, find them here:
https://goo.gl/photos/srr7XNsC8qPXQR588

I'm presuming that you have a "contract" for your volunteer presenters, or at least a code of conduct that they sign up for. 

J

On Fri, 11 Dec 2015, 08:39 Julian Swift-Hook <julian at kennetradio.com> wrote:
We are currently broadcasting/recording/storing the voices of both our guests and our presenters, and displaying images from our studio WebCam via our website.

We also have at least one presenter who is selling their wares commercially as well as volunteering for us – we are concerned that there may be some muddying of the waters regarding the ownership of the rights in recordings/interviews at this presenter may make that are used on Kennet Radio that may also find their way into a commercial situation, or vice versa.

With all of this in mind, we are concerned to make sure that our rights are protected, both practically and legally.  It is not uncommon for broadcasters to ask people to sign “release” forms, so we were thinking that this would be a sensible precaution for us to take with both our volunteer presenters and our studio guests//interviewees.

We haven’t encountered any difficulties yet, but things may well change  if (sorry, when!) we get our FM licence.  Does anyone have any advice or experience to share?  And does anyone have a working Release Form that we could “borrow”, to save us having to reinvent the wheel?

With thanks and best wishes

Julian

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