Request: photos of wheels

[Captain_Kirch]

Originally Posted by Jared Russell

IANAL, but if you are making freely-distributed educational materials, your use of photos may be considered Fair Use.

That is exactly right. Educational materials are clearly protected under fair use law. Here's another source on Fair Use . Long story short you are well within your legal rights to use this material.

In concern to the "Freely-distributed" part of the post I'm quoting. Its a common misconception that if you make your content free it's fair use, and if you make money from it it's copyright infringement. Fair Use law has nothing to do with whether your content makes money or not. You can make free content that infringes copyright, and you can make money on copyrighted content assuming your use of it falls under Fair Use.

[bEdhEd]

I'm not entirely clear on the issue here. Are the photographs you need copyrighted themselves, or is there a problem with using photographs of components like wheels from VEXPro, which can cause copyright issues even if it's an original photo?

If the latter is the issue, then I would have to look into that more, since I feel like that wouldn't be the case. I'm not sure what the rules are for taking photos of branded parts and sharing them, since we do that constantly by sharing pics of our robots.

If the former is the issue, here's a link to our 2015 painted VEXPro mecanum wheels. I think they're pretty.