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I think the information in this thread is very useful. However, what we may think should be the rules and what is actually the rule are two different things.
If you want to compete, you must follow the rules completely. Forgetting about "fair use", one must remember that FIRST is supposed to serve as a realistic learning experience for students. While this competition may be "noncommercial", when each of us FIRST students move on to our respective careers, it will be a commercial environment. I think it is in the best interests of the organization to train us to be sensitive to copyright laws so that when we do enter a career the same issues don't befall us, only with actual legal consequences. FIRST prepares students for the rest of their lives. Why shouldn't they hold us to copyright rules that any other respectable animation studio must abide by?
Food for thought....
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