College Basketball Fotos

go vols baby!! We ass raped UNC-Asheville

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tnjn/sets/72157622799404366/
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I have a question, are you allowed to post those photos? Do they not belong to your paper?

Yeah, that's the way it is at our paper. I have full rights to take any sports photo but without written consent from the university I cannot distribute or present the photos in any other manor.

I'd be careful they can get super pissy and knock your photo credentials.

I was told not to post it anywhere, not even personal websites, is that normal for a college paper?

Yep my pass states:

Any secondary, non-editorial or commercial use of any picture, film or drawing of the game taken or made by the accredited organization or individual to whom this credential has been issues (including, but not limited to, use in advertising, sales, promotion or merchandising) is prohibited without written approval from the bla bla bla division of athletics.

I feel kind of stupid bumping this, but to answer your question, this is a perfectly valid reposting of our flickr.

We are not reposting for commercial purposes, and the site serves as a secondary publication for those who prefer to follow just our media. All of this has been verified. It's not my personal flickr and it is sanctioned by UT directly so it's cool.

Hmm, so you are allowed to use the shots freely that you take for your school paper?

Yup. Pretty much.

I don't really have a desire to test how far I can push that for a couple of reasons.

1. My friends run the paper. I don't want to cause them trouble.
2. I make plenty of money at my real job (engineering)
3. Photography gets me into cool places. Don't want to mess that up.
4. If I want to have prints of something made up for personal use, I have the proofs.

No, I cannot go out selling these shots, and wouldn't try. Can I post a link to our paper's public flickr? Sure.

It's just publicity whoring :-P, plain and simple. If you like what you see, check out the site and see if there are any stories that interest you.

During the course of the season, we'll be doing photo stories and TR's on resorts all over the southeast, our spring break trip to Killy, and Christmas break trip to Colorado.

Dang thats pretty sweet, I get paid like $8.50 a photo that prints, and have to store my own photos but can't use them or post them anywhere else..

Haha well, you've got me beat there. I do it for free. But when you consider that it saves me the cost of a few football tickets every year and the cost of a few lift tickets and tickets to shows that I cover, I guess I'm getting something for my trouble.

Trust me, I went in thinking I was going to do it for free, then kinda excited I was going to get a few dollars for it, then pissed when I realized the images were not mine to use.

i interned at a real paper this summer and i was allowed to post or sell (never did though) photos wherever i wanted. My school paper allows the same thing.