Use of Denver Open Media's (DOM) production facilities is for the creation of non-commercial programs for cablecast on Denver's public access channels. Reservations for equipment and facility suites are nontransferable, and DOM members are expressly prohibited from seeking or accepting compensation from individuals in exchange for use of equipment or facility suites. Additionally, members are not to allowed to use the production equipment, editing suites, or the 3-camera studios for commercial purposes (unless paying commercial rates for non access use). This prohibition includes the production of all programming and the use of all equipment for free-lance purposes. Violations of this policy may result in the suspension or termination of production privileges. Members using the production facilities may not recover costs of production in that such costs were born by DOM.
All member productions created using DOM's equipment and facilities must air on DOM channels and contain the following credit: Produced (in whole or in part) through the facilities of Denver Open Media.
Deproduction and DOM rent out studios and production equipment for commercial use at standard rates. Only non-commercial, public access, creative commons projects qualify for the use of equipment and studios at a discounted rate. If producers want to own exclusive copyrights to their work, or if they want to produce commercial content, it will not air on the Denver Open Media public access channels, and producers will pay commercial rates for use of studios and equipment.