PDGA Europe is the media rights holder for the PDGA Euro Tour Series. At the same time, we want to encourage professional and personal sharing of Disc Golf content to help grow the sport. For this, the following media policy will be applied:
1.MEDIA RECORDING CREDENTIALS
All persons or entities requesting access to these events must be credentialed by the PDGA Euro Tour Manager according to one of these media recording credential types:
A) Professional Use – Commercial
Commercial use media is defined as any content that is directly monetized and/or promotes a brand, business, product, or service. Commercial use includes, but is not limited to:
- Any photo or video captured or used for monetized public social media accounts, and/or accounts using or capturing media to promote affiliate links external to the PDGA Europe.
- Any photo or video captured or used for privately monetized/paywalled accounts or services.
- Any photo or video captured or used for promoting commercial interests of a third party.
If you wish to use any photo, video, or audio obtained at the event for commercial use, please reach out to tourmanager@pdga-europe.com with an inquiry. PDGA Europe reserves the right to approve or deny any credential requests, or charge a fee for commercial media access. These regulations are required to protect our relationships with and the interests of our partners who have existing media rights with PDGA Europe, as well as to protect against unintended co-opting of the individual brands of the athletes competing on the PDGA Euro Tour.
Commercial requests must be received 7 days prior to the start of the event.
B) Professional Use – Editorial
PDGA Europe welcomes independent editorial media to attend its events, and provides editorial-use exemptions from fees associated with capturing or using professional media related to our events. Editorial use includes, but is not limited to:
- Television news crews
- Newspapers
- News media websites
- Podcasts
- Video channels used for interviewing and/or highlighting tournaments, so long as any extrinsic sponsorship of the channel itself does not purport to associate with PDGA Europe or its events, PDGA Euro Tour athletes, staff, or volunteers, and so long as the content captured or used by the channel is not directly used to promote commercial interests of a third party.
Editorial outlets may be granted credentialed access to tournament play, as well as access to interview zones at tournament central. However, depending on the space limitations of certain venues, access may be limited. We appreciate your understanding and cooperation.
If you wish to use any photo, video, or audio obtained at the event for editorial use, you must reach out to tourmanager@pdga-europe.com. PDGA Europe reserves the right to approve or deny any credential requests. Your credential requests must be received no later than 48 hours before the start of the event.
C) Personal Use
PDGA Europe appreciates our avid disc golf fans and spectators. We encourage you to share images, videos, and audio from our events to personal pages and social media accounts (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Tik Tok, etc.)!
If this is how your media is being used, then there is no need to fill out a credential request form. As a reminder, you may not directly monetize any media through paywalls or advertisements, nor use it to promote a brand, business, product, or service.
Capturing media for personal use does not grant access to any restricted areas, including but not limited to, the course, the press conferences/media days, or individual access to players.
Personal Use does not allow for livestreaming, no matter what purpose. All livestreams require a Commercial or Editorial credential request (see above for guidelines).
Please adhere to the following guidelines when onsite for an event:
- Ensure cell phones are set to silent or vibrate.
- Ensure camera shutters are silent or are not used until after players release their shots. Please refrain from using your camera’s flash.
- Please refrain from standing in the players’ line of sight.
- Please allow players, caddies, and professional media enough space to move from hole to hole.
- Please follow directions from crowd control volunteers and remain off the line of play at all times.
- Please refrain from asking players for autographs 30 minutes before and during a round.
- IMPORTANT: Please refer to the COVID-19 guidelines for each individual event, and understand that in order to be good citizens and a part of the solution, situations for individual events may change over time. More information on COVID-19 policies available here.
Violations of the Personal Use media policy may result in removal from the venue, with no refunds given, subject to the discretion of the Tournament Director, their designated staff, and/or PDGA Europe staff.
2. PDGA EUROPE MEDIA HUB
All persons or entities credentialed for media capturing will grant access to PDGA Europe to the media captured at its request.
Professional editorial use can - apart from using its own captured media - benefit access to a complete selection of high quality images and videos from the events that PDGA Europe will make available online during and shortly after each event by reaching out to cgarcia@pdga-europe.com
Content will be classified with a keyword system according to IPTC Core standards for easier location of media about a specific tournament, player, tag, etc and to optimize its search engine performance. Beginners guide to metadata ( applicable both for photo and video ).
All content posted or published in any platform, must prominently mention and link PDGA Euro Tour, the official event name and the presenting partners at the start of the content and in the description.
Professional commercial use access inquires to this media library will be studied case by case
3. Official Media partners
Disc Golf Network (DGN) is world leader in top Disc Golf live streaming services and will boradcast live 7 of the Euro Tour events: official announcement.
MDG Media is PDGA Europe´s official feature/lead MPO and FPO lead card postproduction media partner and as such as a primary right to choose spots to film from and to have a clear sight of players and action on the course. MDG Media team will be present and filming at all the events. Any person who does not wish to be filmed should make themselves known to PDGA Europe, MDG Media or the Tournament Director to give notice of their wish not to be filmed. By registering to the event as a player, you agree to being on the film. By spectating near where the feature card(s) are, you agree to being on the film.
Pulsea Disc Golf Media is a European leading live broadcast service that also offers the world’s biggest online academy for Disc Golfers through Pulsea Disc Golf Academy.
European Pro Tour is a continental disc golf professional event series and media company that has a marketing and media cooperation agreement with PDGA Europe.
Frisbeegolfmedia is a disc golf focused media outlet based in Finland. Frisbeegolfmedia covers all the news for the hundreds of thousands of disc golf fans in Finnish.
Zonadiscgolf is a company that shares Spanish speaking version of selected European Tournaments both for Spain and Latin America.
Mango Multimedia is official Scottish Masters media partner and as such as a primary right to choose spots to film from and to have a clear sight of players and action on the course. Any person who does not wish to be filmed should make themselves known to PDGA Europe, Mango Multimedia or the Tournament Director to give notice of their wish not to be filmed. By registering to the event as a player, you agree to being on the film. By spectating near where the feature card(s) are, you agree to being on the film.
KJ Disc from Denmark is official Kokkedal Open second feature/chase card media partner and as such as a primary right to choose spots to film from and to have a clear sight of players and action on the course. Any person who does not wish to be filmed should make themselves known to PDGA Europe, KJ Disc or the Tournament Director to give notice of their wish not to be filmed. By registering to the event as a player, you agree to being on the film. By spectating near where the feature card(s) are, you agree to being on the film.
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