Moderately Media LLC operates Capital Sideline, Moderately MoCo, and related websites and social channels. This agreement covers everything you contribute through the Press Room portal — photos, articles, video, captions, and game information — and any event coverage you do for us in the field. You are an independent contributor, not an employee, and participation is unpaid unless we agree otherwise in writing.
You keep full ownership of everything you create. By submitting content, you grant Moderately Media LLC a perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to publish, reproduce, and reuse it across all Moderately Media LLC properties and channels — current and future — including capitalsideline.com, Moderately MoCo, and every social channel either brand operates (Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, X, Threads, and others), for editorial, educational, and promotional purposes. This includes cropping, resizing, and editing your content to fit each platform, and composing it into new graphics — for example adding text or combining photos into a featured image. This license continues for content already submitted even if your participation ends.
You confirm that you created the content you submit — or hold the rights to it — and that it doesn't infringe anyone else's rights or violate the credentialing rules of any venue, school, league, or team.
We attach your chosen credit line whenever your work is used on our channels. You can update your credit line in Settings; future uses pick up the new version, and prior uses keep the credit they ran with. You are never required to credit Moderately Media LLC when sharing your own work.
Photos you submit join a shared media library and may be reused in other Capital Sideline or Moderately MoCo coverage, always with your credit attached. Other contributors' work in that library belongs to them: you may feature it inside your portal contributions, and you may not download, screenshot, or republish anyone else's work outside the platform. Doing so is grounds for losing your credentials.
The game information, notes, and captions you submit may be used to produce AI-assisted article drafts, which you review and edit before they go to the desk; published AI-assisted articles carry a disclosure line. We may also use AI tools to edit or process submitted photos and video — for example cleanup, sizing, or preparing platform-specific versions.
Your portfolio, your personal accounts, your call. If you hold independent credentials, you may also sell your work where venue and league rules allow — compliance with those rules is your responsibility, and Moderately Media LLC assumes none for violations.
Event coverage happens at fields, stadiums, gyms, arenas, and community venues, and carries inherent risks — slips, falls, weather, and proximity to active play. You participate at your own risk and release Moderately Media LLC from claims for ordinary negligence (this release does not apply to gross negligence or intentional misconduct, and covers both in-person and remote activities). At events you agree to: stay in approved media or spectator areas; never enter a playing surface without express authorization; shoot from safe positions; act professionally; and follow every venue, school, and league rule attached to your credential. We don't provide transportation. In an emergency, venue or event staff may seek medical care for you; medical expenses are your responsibility.
If you're under 18, a parent or guardian must complete the Parental Review Form before the desk can approve your credentials.
This agreement runs for as long as you contribute. Either of us can end it at any time, and the desk may suspend or revoke portal access with or without cause. The license in Section 2 survives for content already submitted or published.
Checking the agreement box in the portal is your signature; we record the date and time. We store your name, email, and social handles to run your account, attach your credit, and send you notifications about your submissions — nothing else.