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Originally Posted by Jonathan Norris
I am totally in agreement with Tyler on this one. The nature of FVC makes it such that there is no 'ship date', and with the how quickly you can build one of these robots they have the full right to protect their intellectual property (yes I am making this connection to copyrights). ...
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I agree completely that FVC teams should be able to do this.
But I wonder if, legally, teams may have already surrendered rights to likenesses of their machines to FIRST as part of registration? I know that FIRST
requires human participants to surrender those rights (the link is to the 2006 Consent / Release Form) as a condition of participation -- not sure if that requirement extends to robots also.
Does anyone know the details of the FVC event registrations agreement? I didn't see any mention of this in the
FAQ.
Anyway, even if FIRST does have rights to use images of competing FVC robots, I still agree that they should exercise those rights in a way that protects a team's design ideas until that team is ready to publish images.
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