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Highlight films/videotapes/audio tapes may include only clips of acutal athletics contests and activities that occur on the day of the contest that are directly related to the contests (e.g., pre-game player introductions, half-time band and cheerleader performances, locker-room talks, crowd reactions, sideline coaching staff activities, post-game on-field presentations, etc.).

Highlight films may not include clips of other activities that are indirectly related to the contests (e.g., team travel, team meals, entertainment activities, practices activities, institutional facilities, tailgating, etc.).

Highlight videos may contain footage from more than one sports season. Institutions may also produce videos of more than one sports position. For example, an institution may produce a highlight film/videotape of the different positions (e.g., quarterback) of a particular sport, provided the footage contains only game clips specifically related to an event or sports season(s).

Institutions are not permitted to provide game films to a prospective student-athlete. However, it is permissible to show the prospect game films during an off-campus visit or during the prospect's visit to campus.

It is permissible for a coach to appear on a highlight film/videotape, as long as the comments the coach makes are related to the season, and not to any other information about the institution (e.g., a recruiting speech).

Coaches may not create and show a highlight video that places a section of the admissions office video within the highlight video. Coaches may show the highlight video and the admissions video separate from each other during home visits or campus visits.

An institution's web site or an athletics department staff member's personal web site may include highlight videos, provided the provisions set forth in Bylaw 13.4.2.1 are met.

An institution is not permitted to show a video on its scoreboard to a prospective student-athlete visiting its campus while the prospect is touring the stadium, inasmuch as such that item would be considered a recruiting video.

A prospect may tour an institution's athletics Hall of Fame or museum during a recruiting trip and view videotape/films related to the institution's athletics programs (even if such videotape/films do not meet the definition of a highlight film), provided the facility is open to the general public on a year-round basis and the videotape/film is open to the general public.

An institution may not send a highlight film/videotape to a prospect, or leave it with a prospect. Institutional coaches may show game tapes, or highlight videos, to club team coaches, but they may not leave the videos with them.

An institution's highlight film/videotape that is unrelated to the recruitment of prospects may be sold or distributed in noninstitutional outlets by a third-party distributor in accordance with the provisions of Bylaw 12.5.1.9, provided the publication also conforms to Bylaw 13.4.1.2.

Institutions may produce an unlimited number of highlight films, provided the provisions set forth in Bylaw 13.4.2.1 are met.

An institution may send a video playbook or a video of broken-down game film to a prospect who has been accepted for enrollment by the member institution, inasmuch as such items are considered necessary preenrollment information regarding practice activities. It is impermissible to provide such video materials to the prospect's coach, however.

Narration that is related to the games on a highlight film are permissible, as long as no recruiting speeches or any type of narration that could be misconstrued as recruiting occurs on the highlight film.