Section 5556 - [Operative 4/1/2025] On-Screen Credit and Promotional Requirements(a) All productions that request certification of their allocated tax credits and are issued a tax credit certificate shall be required to comply with the following provisions:(1) Provide an on-screen acknowledgement to THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA and THE CALIFORNIA FILM COMMISSION and include the California Film Commission Logo, to be provided by the CFC to the applicant, except where that acknowledgement may be prohibited by the Children's Television Act or any other local, state, or federal government policy.(A) Such acknowledgement and logo shall appear on every episode of a television series except where prohibited as specified in paragraph (1) above.(B) The acknowledgement can be made in any font or graphic format and the applicant may choose the wording of the acknowledgement and the placement of the required entities within that wording, but both entities specified in paragraph (1) above must be named.(2) Provide five (5) production stills in digital file format cleared by the production company and with cast approvals to illustrate the diversity of California locations and/or job creation for promotional use by the CFC.(3) Except for an applicant that is an independent film with a qualified expenditure budget of ten million dollars ($10,000,000) or less, provide an electronic press kit (EPK), when available, for promotional and marketing use by the CFC to highlight productions that received tax credits.(b) The public information posted to the CFC website pursuant to sections 17053.98.1(h)(2)(A)(i) and 23698.1(h)(2)(A)(i) of the Revenue and Taxation Code, which includes qualified taxpayers and the tax credit amounts allocated to each qualified taxpayer, the number of production days in California the qualified taxpayer represented in its application would occur, the number of California jobs that the qualified taxpayer represented in its application would be directly created by the production, and the total amount of qualified expenditures expected to be spent by the production, is subject to inclusion in any public presentation or press release issued by the CFC on or after the date of CAL issuance for the production.Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 10, § 5556
Note: Authority cited: Sections 17053.98.1(e) and 23698.1(e), Revenue and Taxation Code; and Section 11152, Government Code. Reference: Sections 17053.98.1(e), 17053.98.1(h), 23698.1(e) and 23698.1(h), Revenue and Taxation Code; and Section 14998.1, Government Code.
1. New section filed 12-17-2024; operative 4/1/2025 (Register 2024, No. 51).