Hi athletes and sports fans,
This is Dawn. I’ve just joined the Red Sports team and this is my first post – woohoo!
My subject is a serious one though. A few days ago, it came to our attention that a teacher had taken pictures from Red Sports for use in a school publication.
If someone were to come into your school, take a picture off the wall, and bring it home without asking, what would you call it?
Precisely.
Red Sports is aiming to be a sports news website, supporting Singapore and school sports in particular. To do this well, we need funding. Selling pictures is one source of funding. We don’t harass anyone into buying Red Sports pictures, but I hope you can see why we can’t let you publish it for free.
Our policy is that readers have permission to take the website pictures only for their personal use (personal blogs, computer wallpaper, personal shrine). Schools and commercial entities are required to pay a licence fee.
Read more here:
Frequently Asked Questions
RedSports Shop
Picture Gallery
For an overview of copyright in Singapore, click here.
Schools like Catholic High, Presbyterian High, North Vista and Greenridge Primary have purchased our pictures, for which we are very grateful.
So please, let’s play by the rules of the game. And if you happen to know of anyone who has infringed Red Sports copyright, please do let Uncle Les know at: les@redsports.sg.
Thanks!
Dawn
Red Sports. Always Game.®
[…] from Red Sports without permission nor payment, and posted them on its website. (You can read about the last time at this link.) We were a little more surprised this time round because it’s an institution of higher […]
*smack my forehead* Why didn’t I think of that? Good suggestion. We’ll do it! Thanks, Jan.
Hi u. Les and Dawn!
I suggest you have a Copyright line/picture block on the main page and/or especially on the php template that readers can see, regardless of what page they go to from the main site. Something along the lines of “2007 © All content on Red Sports ®” (I remember you used to have it though?) This way people can’t use the proverbial excuse of “oh I didn’t know…” and from my legal knowledge, without this statement, it has often given people the right to make a case.
-jan. 🙂
heh nice. 🙂