Hi athletes and sports fans,

It’s happened again – another school took pictures from Red Sports without permission, 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 learning.

We know that intellectual property online is not widely understood, so could we please take this opportunity to remind everyone about the policy concerning use of our pictures? Red Sports aims to be your sports news website, supporting Singapore and school sports in particular. We are trying our best, and 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 don’t let people publish them 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

You can find out more about Singapore’s copyright laws at the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore website.

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 everyone!

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Copy image? If you are not doing it for personal use, we say: “Please don’t do this!”