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Originally Posted by Beth Sweet
As to the legality issue, every team is required to submit those forms every year that says FIRST can use their image in any way they feel neccessary (publication etc) so yes, you can use those. If you're looking for people cheering, I have a few.
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release gives FIRST the copywrite for the images/videos. It doesn't make it availible to the FIRST community. To use the images on the FIRST website, you would need permission from FIRST.
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Originally Posted by artdutra04
There are also a ton of good pictures on invisiblerobot.com, as evident in Billfred's Caption Contests. All the pictures there are copyrighted material, so you would need to contact them to seek permission to use them. |
Every picture is copywrited unless someone specifically disclaims the copywrite and puts it in the public domain. Eric Carlson made it clear that the photos at invisiblerobot.com are copywrited, but even if he left that note off the bottom of the website, it doesn't change anything legally.
For everyone linking to their team's website, did you get the permission of every photographer who's pictures are posted? I can think of at least one example where somone on chiefdelphi gave permission for people to use the photos on their team's website, and later the photographer denied the usage of those photos.