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Re: ROBOT PICTURES!!!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by Tom McCurdy
I am sorry about your feelings... however these are uncopyrighted pictures. Also I have emailed the owner of www.firstrobotics.net and told him about the site and am waiting for a response. I am also trying to figure out the best way to show some credit to the owner of firstrobotics for collecting the pictures

About the homepage.... umm I share hosting with my friends the quantumninja crew and we a very close group of friends which is what the main site is used for. I recently discovered the homepage picture and am changing it now. I am sorry for those who saw it... it was not associated with the team.
I'm sorry, but you still don't get it. Just because the site you took the images from did or did not have permission to use them does not make any difference. YOU don't have permission from the original photographer to use them. Even if the FirstRobotics web site has permission to use the photos, they do not have the right to grant you permission to use the photos, unless explicitly granted that right by the photographer. The only photographs that FirstRobotics can give you permission to use are the ones that they took themselves, or ones for which full rights of ownership have been transferred.

Photographs, just like any work of art or written prose, belong to the photographer/artist/author. They may grant others the right to reproduce the works for distribution, but those rights are not transferrable unless explicitly granted by the photographer/artist/author. Unless they specifically give up their rights and place the work into the public domain, they retain all rights of ownership. Whether they go to the extent of filing for a registered copyright doesn't matter - they still own the works. And you must obtain the permission of the owner to use them.

Also, note that all the pictures on that site ARE copyrighted. Just becuase they may not be registered copyrights does not matter. Under the definition of copyright, "copyright protection subsists from the time the work is created in fixed form. The copyright in the work of authorship immediately becomes the property of the author who created the work... No publication or registration or other action in the Copyright Office is required to secure copyright" (reference: 1976 Copyright Act, Circular 1, United States Copyright Office).

Therefore, unless you have explicit permission from the photographer that took the images (and you have made it clear that you do not), then you are committing copyright infringement. And becuase you have not provided appropriate credit to the originator of the photographs, you are committing plagarism.

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