Imagine if you were invited to hang your art at a huge art show. In addition to the cost of your art piece, you also pay for the space in which it is shown and everyone who attends pays as well. It seems fair because this art show is set up so that no one is allowed to actually "sell" their work.

Then imagine if the owner/curator of the show was paid by a film crew to film your work. They then took that film and sold it to a large multi-billion dollar conglomerate and aired it on television. The result being that your work was now being used to advertise products and services for Corporate America, and to make money for the filmmakers as well as for the gallery owner, who now has an infomercial about his art show airing on national television that would encourage others to buy tickets in order to come see the spectacle for themselves.

How would you feel about that? Would that be cool with you?

Well, that's exactly what's happening with the Burning Man Arts Festival. As as a member of the Community and a participant in the event, you provide the art and entertainment, including all the labor plus expenses as a gift with no expectation for reward or gain, only to have your efforts re-packed, re-wrapped, re-gifted and sold out from under you.

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	The Collective's Recommended Media Policy The Burning Man Arts Festival, in congruence with its highest values encourages and allows only that media at Burning Man which is utilized by private individuals for their personal, non-commercial use, and by nonprofit documentarians or filmmakers seeking to expand the experience of the burn by interpreting it through the lens of an artist. All filmmaking should occur whenever possible with the consent of the filmed, and the filmmakers are expected to be true participants in Black Rock City as burners, participants and filmmakers. Any and all proceeds from films should be returned to Black Rock City in the form of transparent gifts to the BMorg, funded art by the Community, or charity to the world at large.