Policies Regarding Cablecasting/Telecasting, Filming, Photographing, Videotaping, and/or Webcasting (Video Streaming)

A. Photography, film, video and audio.

PIAA is the owner of the rights to and the copyright holder of all Contests conducted under its jurisdiction. Consistent therewith, the following policies, restrictions, and guidelines apply to audio and visual depictions of PIAA District and/or Inter-District Championship Contests, including all still photographs taken of such Contests and the live audio, visual, and webcasting broadcasts of such Contests. 

 As a general rule, still photography, filming, videotaping, audio recording and webcasting are prohibited at PIAA District and/or Inter-District Championship Contests, except as expressly and specifically authorized by this policy. All video, broadcast, title, and broadcast rights for PIAA District and/or Inter-District Championship Contests are the exclusive property of the invloved PIAA District or PIAA, within their respective jurisdictions. PIAA Districts and/or Inter-District Championship Contests cannot be reproduced, rebroadcasted, or used for any other purposes without the express written consent of the involved PIAA District or PIAA, within their respective jurisdictions.

B. General policies applicable to all classes of photographers, videographers, etc.

1. Still photographs, films, videotapes, and audiotapes may not be used to review decisions of Contest Officials.

2. Still photographs, films, videotapes, or audiotapes, in full or in part, may not be used for any commercial purpose unless authorized in writing by the involved PIAA District or PIAA, within their respective jurisdiction.

3. Any still photography, filming, videotaping, audiotaping, telecasting, webcasting (video streaming), and/or cablecasting shall not interfere with the visibility and comfort of spectators, shall not present a safety hazard to spectators, and/or shall not disrupt, disturb, or interfere with the competition or with any competitor.

4. Any person conducting photography, filming, videotaping, audiotaping, telecasting, webcasting (video streaming), and/or cablecasting shall not stand on any unsafe or potentially hazardous physical object or facility.

5. Any person conducting photography, filming, videotaping, audiotaping, telecasting, webcasting (video streaming), and/or cablecasting must remain in the areas that have been designated for spectators, sports photographers, schools, cable/television stations, or Internet video broadcasters, as appropriate.

C. Specific classes of photographer, videographers, etc.

1. Member Schools.  Representatives of PIAA member schools are authorized, at their own expense, to take still photographs and to film, videotape, and audiotape PIAA District and/or Inter-District Championship Contest.

2. Spectators.  Individual spectators are authorized, at their own expense, and from the seating area or other designated space, to personally take still photographs, film, videotape, and/or audiotape of PIAA District and/or Inter-District Championship Contests for strictly personal use.

3. Media.

a.  Members of the media are authorized, without pay a fee, to take still photographs and take short film, video, and/or audio clips of PIAA District and/or Inter-District Championship Contests for print, video, and electronic news coverage.

b.  With advance permission from the involved PIAA District or PIAA, within their respective jurisdictions, members of the media may take still photographs and film, videotape, and/or audiotape of PIAA District and/or Inter-District Championship Contests for non-news coverage purposes.

c.  The filming or taping of the majority of a PIAA District and/or Inter-District Championship Contest is prohibited, abset approval of the involved PIAA District or PIAA, within their respective jurisdiction.

d.  Abset prior approval of the invloved PIAA District or PIAA, within their respective jurisdictions, for other usage, videos (analog or digital) taken at any PIAA District and/or Inter-District Championship Contests may be used for the sole purpose of showing exverps thereof as a part of a regularly scheduled sports or news porgram and for no other reason.

e.  Media will not led, give away, and/or sell film and/or videotape of PIAA District and/or Inter-District Contests, either in whole or in part, except for the purposes herein above specifically set forth and/or in such cases as the involved PIAA District or PIAA, within their resepective jurisdictions, approves requests to do so.

f.  Abset prior approval of the invloved PIAA District or PIAA, within their respective jurisdictions, in no case where excerpts of any PIAA District and/or Inter-District Championship Contest or Contests are used in connection with television programming, shall the actions of the Concest or Contests exceed a total of ninety (90) seconds of running time.

g.  Abset prior approval of the invloved PIAA District or PIAA, within their respective jurisdictions, no live reports of PIAA District and/or Inter-District Championship Contest are permitted during the time a Contest is being televised live by a television station or network with exclusive rights to the Contest.

h.  Upon request of a PIAA member school or student, media may sell copies of photographs that are published to the reqeustion school and/or student (or the student's family).