Media Credentialing Request

Please review the Media Policy and Copyright Policy below before completing this form. MEDIA POLICY: Contact the Marketing Communications Department 48 hours in advance of your arrival for authorization to shoot photos or video footage. This form must be completed and presented to Museum personnel in order to obtain a media credentials for assignments. Media identification or business card is required at Security/Admissions upon arrival. Media credentials must be worn by media representatives only while on assignment at the National Civil Rights Museum and returned to Security or Admissions Desk at the end of each shoot. NO photos are allowed inside the King’s Room 306 exhibit enclosure, but only in the corridor outside the room. If you are not covering a specific event or story in response to a Museum press release, please contact Marketing Communications Department by telephone at (901) 521-9699 ext. 2292 or 901-331-5460 to discuss by appointment.

COPYRIGHT POLICY: Images of artifacts, photographs, other visuals, audio and video elements in the museum’s exhibitions are copyright protected and licensed for exhibition use only.  Media is permitted to capture museum-licensed images and footage within the context of the exhibitions.  However, capturing isolated, tightly cropped photographs and video elements, or recorded audio is not permitted, as doing so is an infringement of copyright laws. Filming a full virtual tour of exhibitions is prohibited. Written permission must be secured from the primary source or copyright holder before photographing or filming isolated items.  Staff will assist in providing information on copyright holders of items displayed in the exhibition as much as possible, but cannot guarantee that this information is readily available.