FIRST Stock Photos

[Joe Ross]

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.

The 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.

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.

[Ashley Christine]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

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.

Its okay. I took about half the pictures and a mentor took the others, and I know they wouldnt mind our team getting out there more.

[Jon Jack]

Just today we have updated our web site with a picture gallery. The gallery is not yet linked off of our homepage, but you can access it through http://team1538.com/gallery/ we will try to put more pictures up there in the coming days (we have several thousand to sort through). We are also allowing anyone to use these pictures. So far the teams who are featured in our gallery are:
60, 64, 359, 368, 440, 473, 496, 878, 990, 991, 1101, 1110, 1159, 1266, 1324, 1378, 1425, 1505, 1527, 1538, 1585, 1613, 1631, 1641

I know there are teams who attended the 2005 Las Vegas Regional who do not have pictures up on our site right now... I assure all of you that we will have pictures of you in our gallery as soon as possible.

Other pictures we have up from the 2005 Las Vegas Regional: Driver Meeting, Pits and Empty Playing Field...

[MissInformation]

As for the pictures on invisiblerobot.com, we're pretty much okay with allowing people to use our photos, Eric prefers some kind of credit given (you know, photos provided from InvisibleRobot.com or something like that). I tend to only get a bit snarly if it's something of mine and someone outright lies and said they did it.

Of course, most of our photos are going to be team 116 centered, but at competitions we try to photograph everything.

Heidi