THE GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL BROADCASTER FILMING AND INTERNET POLICY 2010
The Glastonbury Festival welcomes media interest in our unique event and we do try to accommodate media coverage wherever possible. However, the Festival does have a media access policy and we would be grateful if you could consider the below before suggesting any proposals to the Festival. 2010 is our 40th anniversary and filming access will be severely limited as we have already received a substantial number of enquiries from both the UK and from around the World.
For NEWS accreditation the first contact should be with the Press Officers (John Shearlaw and Crispin Aubrey). All other requests for FILMING or other media activities should go to Glastonbury Television (Ben Challis). You may not film or record on site without the Festival’s official permission. Contact details are at the foot of this page.
Access to the Festival
Official Partners
As with previous Festivals our host broadcasters are BBC Television and BBC Radio (6 Music and Radio 1). We grant certain exclusive rights to the BBC and BBC Television have the exclusive right to film performances on the Pyramid Stage, the Other Stage, The West Holts (Jazz World) Stage and in the John Peel Stage and the BBC record and film the BBC Introducing stage. In addition BBC TV provide general broadcast reportage for the Festival. Radio coverage over the Festival weekend and after the Festival is on 6Music, Radio 1, 1Xtra, and Radio 5. TV coverage is live on BBC2 and BBC3 with concert specials on BBC4. There is also coverage on interactive TV (using the 'red button'), in the new media sphere and on the BBC's new HDTV channel. On the web over 40 sets from individual artists will be streamed live, reflecting the exciting diversity of the Glastonbury Festival.
The Festival retains all webcast/internet rights to the Festival. Any live web content from the Festival must be agreed in advance with the Festival. The Festival’s own website is at www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk. The BBC Glastonbury website is at www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury. Our official media sponsors are Q Magazine, The Guardian and our mobile partner is Orange. We also work with Southampton Solent University who provide HD news coverage and film of some artists the Dance East stage as well as making a series of short films from the Festival. The Festival's Worthy FM broadcasts live on-site.
Glastonbury Television manages the international television rights to the Festival: programmes are sold internationally by BBC Worldwide and BBC Radio International manages our international radio distribution. The Festival Archive programmes are licensed by DCD (see www.dcdrights.com).
The words Glastonbury and Glastonbury Festival are registered UK and Community trade marks. The Festival's logo is a registered UK trade mark.
News Access
The Festival facilitates news access through the Press Office. We will only accredit bona fide news companies who wish to provide news coverage of the festival for television, radio or new media. If you have a specific non-news project such as a documentary programme or a magazine programme you should contact Glastonbury Television.
Any filming on-site must be for news use only and not for archive or any other use: If we can provide access to performance material then news access rules will apply for any material used by broadcasters: (a) Up to 30 seconds of any one artist may be used (b) No more than 2 minutes can be used in total (c) This news use right is granted for no more than 7 days for both news and magazine programmes from the last day of the festival on the 28th June 2009. This may be archived on the internet for up to 30 days.
No one may transmit any live audio or audio visual images from the Glastonbury Festival site without the Festival's prior written approval. No one may transmit or facilitate the casting of text messages and/or other material to mobile phones either to mobile users on-site or to mobile users off-site without the prior written permission of The Festival.
Other Broadcasters and Filming
As a general principle, the fewer the better! We are sensitive to all of the people who come to the Festival to enjoy themselves. We will also not allow any projects to go ahead which might derogate from the rights we have granted to our Official Partners or which may effect international broadcast partners. But we will consider projects provided they can meet the following criteria:
1. Programmes which are produced and broadcast post-festival on specific topics.
2. No live performances may be recorded without the Festival’s express prior permission. Even if granted you will usually need the artist’s and where relevant their record label’s permissions as well.
3. Crews must be kept to a minimum and be sensitive to the Festival public and their privacy. You must have full public and employers liability insurance and provide us with a copy of your certificate of insurance in advance of filming.
4. Any rights granted would normally only be for the specific programme and transmissions/broadcasts proposed to the Festival. No archive use will be allowed. We normally require a digi-beta copy or HDCam copy of any programme for our own archive (or copy DVD). A facility fee is normally payable for filming on-site.
Clip footage and International Sales
Glastonbury Television manages the Festival’s archive. Priority access is granted to a performer’s record label or band management. Discounted rates are provided (including gratis use for artist’s own EPK and promotional use). All other broadcasters and content providers (including internet) are expected to negotiate a standard commercial licence with the Festival through Glastonbury Television. A rate card can be provided if necessary. We would normally expect an onscreen credit when material is licensed and used (‘from the Glastonbury Festival’).
The BBC and Glastonbury Television will produce a 1 hour and 5 hour ‘Highlights’ programme after the Festival for broadcasters around the World. The licensing of these programmes will be managed by BBC Worldwide. Contact jon.mansfield@bbc.com
Contacts
Glastonbury TV
Ben Challis
T. 0207 713 6579
E. Television@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk
Press Office
John Shearlaw & Crispin Aubrey
T. 01458 834 596
E. Press@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk
F. 01458 834 235
INFORMATION: www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk and information on the Glastonbury filmed archive can be found at www.the-television-company.co.uk