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Defense Department form, series DD, number 2833. Full title: DD Form 2833, Release Granting the U.S. Government Permission to Record and Release Program Material, October 2000. Function: Release Granting the U.S. Government Permission to Record and Reproduce Program Material Transmitted by Educational or Commercial Broadcast Stations. Edition in force: not stated. Publisher status: not stated.
Issued under not stated, with not stated as proponent. A DD number marks a Department-wide instrument: the same blank form serves every military department and the defense agencies, rather than one service alone.
Users include uniformed members of any branch, DoD civilian employees, contractor personnel where authorized, and the administrative staff who process the completed record.
Timing of submission is fixed by not stated and by the implementing guidance of the submitting organization. What follows describes the blank document, not agency procedure.
The download set covers PDF. Document length is 1 pages with about 15 entry fields.
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What the form asks for
- Description of the program material (line 1).
- Description of the program material (last 2 lines).
- Description of the use to be made of the program material (line 1).
- Description of the use to be made of the program material (last 3 lines).
- The person granting and releasing the rights set forth herein is the: press space bar to mark X in first box if copyright owner or second box if agent of the copyright owner of the program.
- If agent, name and address of the copyright owner (line 1).
- Name and address of copyright owner (last 3 lines).
- 1. Copyright owner or authorized agent. a. Typed or printed name (last, first, middle initial).
- 1.b. Signature.
- 1.c. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- 2. Witness. a. Typed or printed name (last, first, middle initial).
- b. Signature.
- c. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
Order of completion: identification block first, substantive entries second, certification and signature last. The blank is laid out in that sequence and the sequence is not arbitrary — later entries often depend on data established in the header.
Edition in use: not stated. Because DD forms are revised at Department level and distributed to all services at once, an obsolete printing may not match the fields an office expects. The date is printed on the form face.
Field-level instructions appear on the form itself and in not stated. The directive is the controlling text.
The completed document moves to the office named in not stated or in local guidance. A retained copy is conventional practice.
Related documents are located by series and number. DD forms sit in a single Department-wide sequence, so a form referenced inside DD Form 2833 is normally found by its number alone, without regard to service.
Some procedures pair a DD form with a service form. The two numbering systems are separate — service forms answer to a service proponent, DD forms to not stated or another Department office — and a matching number in each system means nothing.
Forms are reissued for several reasons: directive revision, changed data requirements, updated notice language. Confirming not stated at the moment of download covers the risk.
Scope of this page: distribution of a published form and description of its contents. It offers no legal guidance and no assurance regarding any particular submission. Direct procedural questions to not stated, to the servicing personnel office, or to the office designated in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2833?
- DD Form 2833, Release Granting the U.S. Government Permission to Record and Release Program Material, October 2000
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?